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[:es]Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.[:]
[:es]By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command. [:]
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[:es]How Ancient Light Reveals the Universe’s Contents[:]
[:es]A photograph of the infant cosmos reveals the precise amounts of dark matter and dark energy in the universe, leaving precious little room for argument.[:]
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[:es]An Ethical Future for Brain Organoids Takes Shape[:]
[:es]Collaborations in progress between ethicists and biologists seek to head off challenges raised by lab-grown “organoids” as they become increasingly similar to human brain tissue.[:]
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[:es]How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm[:]
[:es]A curious physicist has discovered an unexpected link between theoretical block collisions and a famed quantum search algorithm.[:]
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[:es]The Voyage to the End of Ice[:]
[:es]Arctic ice is disappearing — the question is how fast. Summer sea ice could endure 100 more years, or it could vanish later this decade, with disastrous consequences for the […]
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[:es]Hidden Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons[:]
[:es]The dendritic arms of some human neurons can perform logic operations that once seemed to require whole neural networks.[:]
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[:es]Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes[:]
[:es]Snow crystals come in two main types. The “pope” of snowflake physics has a new theory that explains why.[:]
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[:es]Famous Fluid Equations Spring a Leak[:]
[:es]Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one.[:]
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[:es]Continents of the Underworld Come Into Focus[:]
[:es]Giant blobs nestled deep in the Earth may influence everything from the structure of island chains to mass-extinction events. [:]