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EPFL researchers have discovered that a droplet of liquid can bounce for several minutes—and perhaps indefinitely—over a ...

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The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...

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Dante Omics AI, Rockefeller University, Giunta Lab, Sapienza University, University of Tennessee, Trieste Area Science Park and University of L’Aquila published the successful assembly of a ...

Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product—a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI ...

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In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells.