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AIs can work together in much larger groups than humans ever could
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Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shape pleasure and pain
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2024 Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented key AI techniques
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Growing number of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change
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Microscopic gears powered by light could be used to make tiny machines
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Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy’s effects forever
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The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but will it be enough?
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Daniele Oriti: The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics
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