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Penn engineers use AI to solve some of science's most difficult math problems
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AI struggles with true creativity compared to humans, study finds
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (703+ words) A new study finds AI struggles with true creativity, especially in visual imagination tasks compared to humans. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A page filled with abstract shapes can spark wildly different ideas depending on who is looking at it. For one person,…...
The AI Scientist takes a big step toward end-to-end automation of scientific research
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (661+ words) An AI system produced a paper that passed workshop peer review, raising new questions about science, trust and research norms. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A paper built entirely by artificial intelligence did not arrive with a flashy headline. At its core, the…...
Humanity's last exam, the test that modern AI still struggles to pass
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (777+ words) A global team built a test so difficult that today's AI models still fail most of it. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Artificial intelligence systems now breeze through many academic tests that once challenged both machines and people. That success created an unexpected…...
AI breakthrough could dramatically lower the cost of drug development
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (763+ words) MIT engineers used a language model to pick yeast-friendly codons, boosting production of six proteins, including trastuzumab. (CREDIT: Adobe Stock) Three-letter DNA "words" can decide whether a yeast cell cranks out a medicine efficiently or sputters along. The words are…...
Study finds microbes used oxygen far earlier than scientists thought
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1421+ words) MIT-led research suggests microbes used oxygen hundreds of millions of years before Earth's Great Oxidation Event. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) Oxygen fills the air today, but for most of Earth's early history it barely existed. Scientists…...
New study finds AI depictions of Neanderthals are outdated and wrong
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (798+ words) The species, known scientifically as Homo neanderthalensis, has been debated for more than a century. (CREDIT: Advances in Archaeological Practice) Over the past 40 years, phones and computers have turned into the world's largest library. Answers now arrive in seconds. With…...
Tiny protein pair discovery could reveal how the genetic code first began
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (710+ words) Researchers analyzing 4. 3 billion dipeptides say tiny protein pairs hold clues to how the genetic code formed and expanded over time. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then…...
New research links quantum collapse to time and gravity
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (847+ words) New physics research links quantum collapse models to gravity and finds tiny limits on clock precision. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to…...
Artificial intelligence can now beat average humans in creativity, study finds
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (823+ words) A major study finds AI can outperform average humans on creativity tests, but top human creators still lead. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Creativity has long been treated as a defining human trait. It shapes art, science, and problem solving, and it helps…...