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In 1980, philosopher John Searle developed a thought experiment in response to AI advancement at the time. His aim was to ...

This economic evaluation found that insurance premiums have increased at 3 times the rate of workers’ earnings since 1999, ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article in Science argues that the field ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Michigan, has captured unprecedented ...

(via Minute Earth) n the middle of baby-making, a female praying mantis will sometimes chomp down on a male’s head, then ...

How many people need to be in a room before there's a greater probability than chance that two of them share a birthday?

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