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Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

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Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to ...

Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s ...