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Employers are increasingly investing in training to prepare their employees for artificial intelligence (AI). Training ...

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NASA is planning to send three small rovers to the moon with a single instruction: Work out among yourselves how to explore a ...

When a dairy cow miscarries, a farmer loses far more than an unborn calf. Feed has been grown, land and water have been used, ...

A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate—the hypothetical "dark ...