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Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out. | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionStart talking to Ellie Pavlick about her work — looking for evidence of understanding within large language models (LLMs) — and she might sound...
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Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Keystone Species’ | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionAnne Salomon’s first week as a graduate student in 2001 was not what she had anticipated. While other new students headed to introductory lectures,...
Sound and vision: synchrotron insights illuminate crystal nucleation and growth – Physics World
A new take on sonocrystallization is showing industrial promise thanks to experimental investigations at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron research facility. Joe...
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionString theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch...
The Crucial Building Blocks of Life on Earth Form More Easily in Outer Space
The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life...
Single-cell nanobiopsy explores how brain cancer cells adapt to resist treatment – Physics World
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Keith Burnett: ‘I have this absolute commitment that the broader we are, the more powerful physics will be’ – Physics World
Keith Burnett, the current president of the Institute of Physics, talks to Matin Durrani about his career in physics, the value of universities to...
New photovoltaic 2D material breaks quantum efficiency record – Physics World
Convention solar cells have a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 100%: for every photon incident on the cell, they generate one photoexcited electron....
A Universal Vaccine Against Any Viral Variant? A New Study Suggest It’s Possible
From Covid boosters to annual flu shots, most of us are left wondering: Why so many, so often?There’s a reason to update vaccines. Viruses...
Integrate HyperPod clusters with Active Directory for seamless multi-user login | Amazon Web Services
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is purpose-built to accelerate foundation model (FM) training, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in managing and optimizing a large training...
Why we still need a CERN for climate change – Physics World
Tim Palmer says that we must pool our resources to produce high-resolution climate models that societies can use, before it is too late
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 20)
15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024Eliza Strickland | IEEE Spectrum“Each year, the AI Index lands on virtual desks with a...
Cell Therapies Now Beat Back Once Untreatable Blood Cancers. Scientists Are Making Them Even Deadlier.
Dubbed “living drugs,” CAR T cells are bioengineered from a patient’s own immune cells to make them better able to hunt and destroy cancer.The...