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3. Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution.
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- Physics Worldby Demming
Sound waves come in quantum jumps
First observation of fundamental quantization in mechanical vibrations could have applications in quantum error correction and protein diagnostics
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Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
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Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP17 biodiversity summit
Next week, diplomats from around the world will descend on Yerevan, Armenia, to negotiate a series of decisions under the…
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Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos
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Ask me anything: Tania Kendrick - 'There's something really satisfying when everything starts to click'
Tania Kendrick is a civil servant in the UK's Cabinet Office
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- Physics World
Quantum physicist Ignacio Cirac awarded 2026 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
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Economics Nobel awarded for work on stabilizing economies in crisis
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Honey bees inject venom with a two-stroke stinger
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Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use
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Beyond the solvent fog: watching molecules dance in the crowd
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Did an AI or human write that paper? New detector decides by examining its ideas
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Keep medical doctors in academia — without them, health-care research will suffer
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What does a PhD pay? Data reveal huge gaps across Europe
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Hidden signals in sleep can predict future health
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I told ChatGPT to 'continue' — it went too far
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Does the decline of book reading mark the end of rational thinking?
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Antiviral immunity via telomerase-like reverse transcription in bacteria
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