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The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

Scientists created a map showing which U.S. states face high flu risk. The study explains how social and health factors shape ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly inventing new drugs for diseases from Parkinson's disease and antibiotic-resistant superbugs to rare lung conditions.

Exactly 150 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first phone call. “Come here,” he shouted into the fuzzy, one-way phone line at his partner Thomas Watson. “I want you!” (He had spilled ...

Summary: Workplace attrition threatens operational continuity and clinical trial timelines for life science professionals. The recent shift to remote and decentralized trials presents unique ...

After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had ...

“We have 600 petabytes of data across Intel,” said Aziz Safa, corporate VP & GM Intel Foundry Automation at the recent PDF Solutions Users Conference. “The challenge is to be able to run algorithms on ...

There is a version of this story that would have gone very differently. A talented violinist from Belarus finishes conservatory, wins some competitions, sends out recordings, and waits. Maybe a label ...

The most common question about the future of media is whether artificial intelligence will replace journalists.

A team of more than 30 physicists and materials scientists published a detailed strategy for reaching room-temperature superconductivity, identifying the most promising material families, the biggest ...