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A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it’s also revealed how far AI has to go.
Only 170 million years ago, new plankton evolved. Their demand for carbon and calcium permanently transformed the seas as homes for life.
A brain circuit that suppresses distracting sensory information holds important clues about attention and other cognitive processes.
Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.
Modeling suggests that many embryonic cells commit to a developmental fate when they become too small to divide unevenly anymore.
Theories about how animals became multicellular are shifting as researchers find greater complexity in our single-celled ancestors.
After an interstellar asteroid shot past the sun, scientists realized that there’s probably a lot of itinerant rocks out there.
Mathematicians have proved that a random process applied to a random surface will yield consistent patterns.
To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes.