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Intercepting interstellar objects could transform fleeting encounters into profound scientific opportunities. In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body using the world’s most powerful telescopes. It was

In a first, the 3D reconstruction of a mouse brain links structure to activity. Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and consume a boatload of

A vast galactic survey suggests dark energy may not be constant after all. The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that “cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt.” In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a chance that we have got it

The AI made a “mental map” of the world to collect the game’s most sought-after material. My nephew couldn’t stop playing Minecraft when he was seven years old. One of the most popular games ever, Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools. No one

The thalamus is a gateway, shuttling select information into consciousness. How consciousness emerges in the brain is the ultimate mystery. Scientists generally agree that consciousness relies on multiple brain regions working in tandem. But the areas and neural connections supporting our