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Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth ...

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A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are focusing on something else, but new experiments ...

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Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the food industry's attempts to meet the challenges of climate change and conflicts ...

Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson – perhaps because they often have more straightforward themes a ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from industrial hotspots can cause snow to fall ...

Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control ...