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He invented a computer model that made it possible to measure human-induced climate change. He also helped break a color ...

Sam Altman is an American investor and technology entrepreneur who is currently the CEO of OpenAI and has other companies ...

The researchers studied chimpanzees interacting with touch screens, observing how their performance changed based on the number of human observers.

The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, right, and the Gates Center at the University of Washington on ...

Jungfleisch uses nanomagnets to store and transmit information and achieves it in a more energy-efficient manner as compared ...

A Chinese Wall, an inter-organizational ethical barrier to prevent conflicts of interest, was developed in U.S. financial ...

In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ...

Complexity science has changed the way researchers think about the climate, the economy and ecosystems. Is it about to do the ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers have found that chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks is influenced by the number ...

Ultimately, nonprofits, companies and universities need to work together to address the current underrepresentation of women ...