A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. (Image credit: Tommy Trenc...
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Elon Musk made his first-ever appearance at Davos where he joked about Greenland, and discussed the future of AI and humanoid robots. Read the original article on Business Insider...
The restart, initially scheduled for Tuesday, had been pushed back after another technical issue related to the control rods' removal was detected last weekend....
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Using acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase a child's risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability, a major new review published Friday finds....
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It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...
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"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
"Dark matter can be red hot when it is born, but still have time to cool down before galaxies begin to form."...
Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth....
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...
Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace....
Chinese researchers have completed a full end-to-end simulation of the Chinese Space Station Telescope's observing systems, offering a preview of how the powerful scope will survey the universe....
NASA's preparing for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around since 1972....
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before....
Decades of human activity have left “irreversible damage” to the planet’s water supply, a new report warns....