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The Science of Thought

The science of consciousness, cognition, perception, and memory. What is intelligence? We are trying to build it in machines and discovering we do...

The World We Discover

Scientific discovery from quarks to quasars. Physics, space, mathematics, and life sciences - the things we find when human curiosity meets the physical...

The New Intelligence

AI in science: the genuine breakthroughs, the stubborn limits, and the human consequences. Science Reader tracks what happens when artificial intelligence meets scientific...

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After 1,700 Autonomous Decisions, NASA's Swift telescope is coming down

NASA's gamma-ray observatory deorbits in October after a commercial rescue failed, ending a 20-year unacknowledged experiment in machine judgment that preceded the public...

Digital Fruit Flies Avoid 'Catastrophic Forgetting' by Refusing to Learn

A fly-inspired network never forgets an odor. The reason is that it barely learns.

Related Fish Species Make Similar Choices, But How They Choose Differs

Two cichlid species share identical preferences but use different decision rules when choices get hard, a PNAS study of over 5,000 trials finds.