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Ocean Vent Explorer Guides NASA’s Look at Icy Alien Worlds | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionAs a boy growing up in Rochester, England, Chris German knew of his family’s strong maritime tradition, and he had no intention of continuing...
Trapped in ice: the surprisingly high levels of artificial radioactive isotopes found in glaciers – Physics World
Glaciers accumulate significant amounts of fallout radionuclides from nuclear accidents and weapons testing – sometimes in the highest radioactive concentrations ever...
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A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial IntelligenceAnil Ananthaswamy | Quanta“By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more...
Modern Physics Can’t Explain Life—But a New Theory, Which Says Time Is Fundamental, Might
Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe...
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity
IntroductionAn oak tree. The symbiotic fungus intertwined with its roots. A cardinal chirping from one of its branches. Our best clue yet to their...
Meta’s New AI Is Digging Into the Most Mysterious Proteins on Earth
The race to solve every protein structure just welcomed another tech giant: Meta AI.A research offshoot of Meta, known for Facebook and Instagram, the...
Meta’s New ChatGPT-Like AI Is Fluent in the Language of Proteins—and Has Already Modeled 700 Million of Them
The race to solve every protein structure just welcomed another tech giant: Meta AI.A research offshoot of Meta, known for Facebook and Instagram, the...
Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks
IntroductionOur bodies consist of about 30 trillion human cells, but they also host about 39 trillion microbial cells. These teeming communities of bacteria, viruses,...
Can We Program Our Cells?
IntroductionMaking living cells blink fluorescently like party lights may sound frivolous. But the demonstration that it’s possible could be a step toward someday programming...
SETI: How AI-boosted satellites, robots could help search for life on other planets
AI-infused algorithms developed to find signs of life in extreme terrestrial environments could help robotic rovers sent to other planets search for signs of...
With Nothing to Eat Except Viruses, Some Microbes Thrive
IntroductionViruses are notorious as scourges of cellular life, destroying as ruthlessly as any predator. Yet as microbiologists are now piecing together, these killers also...
The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think
IntroductionPeople often think they know what causes chronic depression. Surveys indicate that more than 80% of the public blames a “chemical imbalance” in the...
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