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AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Zeeya Merali and Nature magazine

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The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1

Katie Hafner, Carol Sutton Lewis and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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How Census Data Put Trans Children at Risk

Os Keyes and Abraham D. Flaxman | Opinion

Moth Wings Are Beautiful in Infrared Light

Drab brown moths’ infrared glittering could be key to tracking different species through the night

Daniel Lingenhöhl and Sasha Warren

Biotech

AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Zeeya Merali and Nature magazine

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The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1

Katie Hafner, Carol Sutton Lewis and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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How Census Data Put Trans Children at Risk

Os Keyes and Abraham D. Flaxman | Opinion

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Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries

Ben Shneiderman | Opinion

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A Massive LinkedIn Study Reveals Who Actually Helps You Get That Job

Viviane Callier

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To Clear Deadly Land Mines, Science Turns to Drones and Machine Learning

Andrew Robinson and Dominic Smith

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Could Dragons from Game of Thrones Actually Fly? Aeronautical Engineering and Math Says They Could

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A Massive LinkedIn Study Reveals Who Actually Helps You Get That Job

Acquaintances, more than close friends, show the strength of “weak ties” when it comes to employment

Viviane Callier

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Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries

For humanity’s brightest future, the blue-sky, lofty thinkers in AI need the help of the muddy-boots pragmatists

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How Census Data Put Trans Children at Risk

The Census Bureau must improve its data anonymization methods to protect vulnerable groups

Os Keyes and Abraham D. Flaxman | Opinion

AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

DeepMind’s system for predicting the 3D structure of proteins is among five recipients of science’s most lucrative awards

Zeeya Merali and Nature magazine

Artificial Intelligence

This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Baby

Engineers at the company DeepMind built a machine-learning system based on research on how babies’ brain works, and it did better on certain tasks than its conventional counterparts...

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Making Computer Chips Act More like Brain Cells

Flexible organic circuits that mimic biological neurons could increase processing speed and might someday hook right into your head

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