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Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They've Used A. I. to Identify a Clever Solution
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (737+ words) Ellen Wexler | Writer and Special Projects Editor Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane'say, a piece of paper'and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same…...
Scientists Used A. I. to Redesign a Microbe's Machinery to Function Without a Key Ingredient of Life
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (502+ words) Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent Almost all life on Earth builds its proteins from the same set of 20 building blocks, called amino acids. Some organisms have an extra one or two, but none have fewer. Now, researchers have used artificial intelligence…...
Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (487+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent Roughly 40, 000 years ago, humans living in present-day Europe carved a variety of geometric signs into pendants, tools and figurines. Now, according to a new paper in the journal'PNAS, researchers claim the mysterious…...