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Artificial Intelligence Takes On Earthquake Prediction
...using machine learning to try to demystify earthquake physics and tease out the warning signs of impending quakes. Two years ago, using pattern-finding algorithms similar to those behind recent advances...
How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry
...it for granted that ecological relationships are the primary force of evolution. But in the grand scheme of life, that may be a surprisingly recent development. In the oceans, for...
Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes
...think they may be closing in on a solution. Not even the researchers themselves fully grasp the physical implications of the math they explore in a recent paper. But in...
How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
...to recent neutrino oscillation data (which reveals the differences between the mass states rather than their actual values), if the lightest mass state is zero, the heaviest must be at...
Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain
...cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the senior author of a recent paper involving the Tsimané in the journal Current Biology which suggests that a feature...
‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals
...are blind or visually impaired, for instance, can process auditory and tactile information. The somatosensory cortex, and not the motor cortex, was recently found to play a significant role in...
Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools
After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world. Programmers at OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company, recently...
Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
...far, research has suggested that severely limiting calorie intake can have a beneficial effect, as can manipulating certain genes in laboratory animals. But recently in Nature, Bruce Yankner, a professor...
Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
...half-integer spin. In recent years, experiments have ruled out many of the simplest versions of supersymmetry. But the gap in the spin spectrum strikes some physicists as a reason to...