How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper - The New York Times
Trawling ancient history with neural nets.
Trawling ancient history with neural nets.
Scientists in Hungary are streaming experiments with dogs that know many words, featuring them in a contest of canine intelligence.
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Rocket Lab may be able to send a small spacecraft to probe the clouds of Venus long before NASA or other space agencies are able to do so.
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Researchers have found fish that absorb more than 99.9 percent of the light that hits their skin.
The process of making tengujo is fairly simple, but the nearly transparent product that results is almost magical.
Video calls seemed an elegant solution to remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated ways.
Critics say the popular Netflix series and its directors lost sight of the conservation and animal welfare problems at the heart of the story of Joe Exotic.
A survey of New Zealand scientists found that recipients of a randomized funding program favored random allocations of some kinds of grant money.
A new study explores a strange paradox: In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions.
The designs seemingly stretch the limits of science.
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After searching for dogs' intelligence, a top canine scientist concluded that their true gift is affection.
The Antarctic midge spends more than half its life frozen. A better understanding of how it does so could have implications for human health.
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Medieval scholar: "Sorry, folks, 'proto-Romance language' is not a thing."
How an obsolete medical device with a security flaw became a must-have for some patients with type 1 diabetes
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Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.
If you spend time around horses or flies, you might want to invest in some zebra print.
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In the Martian landscape that is the Atacama desert, astrobiologists are learning how to recognize extraterrestrial organisms.
Thanks to the compounds used to protect precious flowers, antifungal resistance is here—and it could be just as dangerous to humans as antibiotic resistance.
Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?
"Insect Allies" exploits the latest in CRISPR gene editing to help imperiled crops, but critics fear such technology could evolve into a biological weapon.