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2024年11月15日 · A robot trained on 100 percent synthetic data can climb stairs, clamber over boxes, and chase a soccer ball in the real world.

2025年1月2日 · Breakthroughs in medicine are exciting. They promise to alleviate human suffering, sometimes on global scales. But it takes years, even decades, for new drugs and therapies to go from research to your medicine cabinet. Along the way, most will stumble at some point. Clinical trials, which test ...

2024年12月13日 · The study found changes to proteins in the blood—at 57, 70, and 78 years of age—marked three distinct phases of brain aging.

2024年12月19日 · Science Corporation thinks connecting to the brain with living neurons could be a more viable solution for brain-machine interfaces.

2024年11月1日 · In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence with the ominous title Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It proved highly influential in promoting the idea that advanced AI systems—“superintelligences” more capable than humans—might one day take over the world and destroy humanity. A decade later, OpenAI boss Sam ...

2024年12月12日 · Google’s new Willow quantum processor has crossed a critical threshold in quantum computing.

2024年12月30日 · Our hands are mirror images of each other. Unless you flip one hand around, they’ll never look the same. Scientists call this chirality, and the mirror-like property is fundamental to all life on Earth. DNA and RNA—life’s genetic molecules, from viruses to humans—are made of components that exist in their right-handed form. Amino …

2024年12月6日 · When bracing for extreme weather, every second counts. But planning measures rely on accurate predictions. Here’s where Google DeepMind's AI comes in.

2024年10月9日 · The 25-year-old woman had suffered through decades of medical nightmares. A native of Tianjin, a city roughly two hours west of Beijing, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 11 years ago. A chronic autoimmune disease, her body’s immune system savagely attacks the cells in her pancreas that produce insulin, spiking blood sugar to deadly levels—even after a few nibbles of rice. Following ...