OpenAI's robot Dactyl learns how to do new tasks from experience rather than by custom programming. Here is a demonstration of Dactyl manipulating a block into a desired orientation.
Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of bread-making showing that ancient hunter-gatherers were making and eating bread 4,000 years before the Neolithic era and the introduction of agriculture.
High-energy neutrinos have been traced back to a flaring supermassive black hole known as a blazar. The long-sought link opens the door to an entirely new way to study the universe.
It’s a lie that wasteful consumers cause the problem and that changing our individual habits can fix it
Author and curator Nick Pyenson describes the similarities and differences between humans and our distant mammalian relatives.
The physicist Lisa Manning studies the dynamics of glassy materials to understand embryonic development and disease.
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Crispr has stirred strong feelings ever since it came to light as a gene-editing technology five years ago. Already, it’s a mainstay in the scientific tool kit. But recent studies remind everyone that genome editing isn’t magic.
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