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Seven years later the transformer, which enables ChatGPT and other chatbots to quickly generate sophisticated outputs in ...

After months of nonsensical transmissions from humanity’s most distant emissary, NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft is ...

The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power funding for lower-income communities, an ...

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The birth of a cloned black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, and her two new sisters, has sparked a new pilot program to ...

Millions of human-made objects travel at high speeds in low-Earth orbit, polluting space and increasing the chance of ...

It turns out that more memorable images seem to last longer, and these persistent images also appear to be more memorable.