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Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech.
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There's hard problems, and then there's really hard problems. But it's hard to pin down the difference between them.
The public will be invited to lend their own computers to help the scientific community unlock the secrets contained in gravitational waves observed when black holes smash together.
What may be most surprising is that we humans have done as well as we have in games that seem, now, to have been made for machines.
Machine learning techniques are commonly based on how the visual system processes information. To beat their limitations, scientists are drawing inspiration from the sense of smell.
An artificial-intelligence technique called deep learning has now been used to model spatial navigation. The system develops a representation of space similar to that of the grid cells found in the mammalian brain.
There have been just a few more digits added to pi since Archimedes got to 3.141.
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.
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