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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Inca quipu was a complex system of knotted cords, encoded numerical records and possibly even a full logosyllabic language. New research ...

The hope for quantum computers is that the devices will be able to solve complex tasks such as predicting how chemicals react or cracking encrypted text. One of the main reasons that the machines are ...

Nobel laureate in Physics Richard Feynman enjoyed memorizing pi (π). Starting at the 762nd decimal place, the number 9 appears six times in a row. An anecdote tells of how Feynman enjoyed reciting the ...

Personality tests are widely used in workplaces to shape recruitment, leadership training and team building. But what if artificial intelligence could make them faster, smarter and more accurate? New ...

To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

Demis Hassabis has been pondering what humans are supposed to do in the face of machine superintelligence for his entire life ...

Museum collections have underpinned scientific research for centuries. But physical specimens in boxes and drawers don't easily lend themselves to the research techniques of the new millennium. "How ...

Innovative tool for producing computer chips uses giant, nearly perfect mirrors to make tiny transistors and circuits.

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