Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says current AI models lack 4 key human traits

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Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says AI lacks key human traits, requiring a shift in how they are trained.

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Google DeepMind CEO wins joint Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on AlphaFold

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Demis Hassabis called the award the "honor of a lifetime."

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Scientists Witness the Birth of Water Molecules at the Smallest Scale Yet

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Image of a tiny bubble of water forming on palladium.

Zapping Beaches With Electricity Can Produce ‘Natural Cement’ Where We Need It Most

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An artistic impression of how electricity could be used to strengthen coastlines.

32 'Bridgerton' couples ranked by their chemistry

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Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) in "Bridgerton" season 2; and Young King George (Corey Mylchreest) and Young Queen Charlotte ( India Amarteifio) in "Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story."

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Chemists Used Buckyballs to Squeeze a Noble Gas Into One Dimension

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On my commute to work today, I had the misfortune of being crammed into a narrow tube underground. But it could have been worse: I could’ve been squished into a single dimension.

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Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is so dense it may actually contain elements never before seen on Earth, according to a new study

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Artistic rendering of asteroids in space.

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What is a quantum dot?

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A schematic representation shows an electron under 12-qubit quantum dot gates.
A schematic representation shows an electron under 12-qubit quantum dot gates.

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The work that Oppenheimer would've been known for if he hadn't gone on to make the atomic bomb

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J. Robert Oppenheimer smoking his pipe and standing in front of a blackboard filled with equations.
J. Robert Oppenheimer smoking his pipe and standing in front of a blackboard filled with equations.

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The EPA Is Finally Going to Limit Forever Chemicals in America’s Drinking Water

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal that would limit the amount of forever chemicals allowed in the nation’s drinking water to the lowest levels that can be detected on tests. The move will address rising concerns about how widespread PFAS exposure contributes to health concerns like liver…

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