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Computing pioneer Alan Turing suggested training machines with rewards and punishments. Two computer scientists put the…
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Across a series of studies, researchers dug into what really triggered FOMO – and what worked to fend it off.
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While you might not like how your trash smells, to your dog it is an appealing buffet brimming with apple cores, banana…
Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole…
The National Institutes of Health has been integral to scientific progress in treating countless human diseases. Without…
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Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the…
A decade of fieldwork is revealing how one of biology’s fundamental principles works in real time.
Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a…