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New AI Strategy Mimics How Brains Learn to Smell
...hierarchical way, leading to a revolution in machine learning and AI research. To teach these nets to recognize objects like faces, they are fed thousands of sample images. The system...
How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable
...probably exchanging resources? At present, there is not much of a null hypothesis, according to Allesina. In a recent paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution, he and his collaborators asked...
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
...“It is something you could start thinking about, if all goes well, at the next stage of the evolution of quantum computers.” And given how quickly the field is now...
In the Ticking of the Embryonic Clock, She Finds Answers
...from retroviral integration. That seems surprising — that viral DNA would play such an important role so early in development. Over the course of evolution, viruses have been in us...
Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
...it is unspoken. The theories of evolution or plate tectonics don’t have to include some element that says “you are here, observing this stuff”; we can take that for granted....
How Nearby Stellar Explosions Could Have Killed Off Large Animals
...cosmic events affect Earth — even whether they have altered the course of evolution. A new study suggests that energetic particles from an exploding star may have contributed to the...
Asteroid Rate Jumped in Solar System’s Past
...few hundred million years of evolution on our planet occurred in a universe where the danger setting had been dialed up just a little higher. Dinosaurs, flowering plants, early primates...
An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
...quasars, turn off, shine — until today. It’s paradoxical that we have a theory, the “standard model of cosmology,” that perfectly captures the evolution of the universe, even though 95...
Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies
Priyamvada Natarajan explains the role of supermassive black holes in the structure and evolution of the universe. Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine...