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Why Google Deepmind Broke Up The Alphafold Team
The artificial intelligence system largely accomplished the task it was built to solve, and researchers outside DeepMind have already been carrying its…
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Wormholes Could Be The Key To Time Travel
Wormholes are one way that physicists have imagined traveling into the past. But if something gets there, is it physically possible to…
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The U.s. Military Needs Tungsten, But Pristine Nasa Site May Stand …
A unique landform is vital for calibrating NASA’s satellites, but it’s likely sitting atop a vast deposit of this heavy metal, which…
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Daily Briefing: How Smallpox Reached The Americas
Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm smallpox was introduced to the Americas from Europe. Plus, the month’s best science images and the…
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Fires In Europe Are Breaking Records: Here’s What The Future Holds
Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions,…
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Daily Briefing: ‘Raygun’ Ai Can Shrink Or Supersize Proteins
The tool can add, remove or swap protein subunits using similar steps to natural evolution. Plus, spin qubits are back in the…
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Bizarre New Material Discovered In Hiroshima Bombing Debris
he extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy
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Daily Briefing: Ice-Age Art Hints At How Humans Flourished
Tiny bird figurines hint at the sophistication of Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens. Plus, open peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted…
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Daily Briefing: Why All Living Cells Emit A Faint Glow
The emission of ‘biophotons’ could be a cell’s way of communicating with its neighbours. Plus, a ‘timer’ in the brain that tracks…