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six panels show fuzzy galaxies, some warped

Advanced AI discovers a treasure trove of gravitational lenses

By Keith Cooper published

A machine-learning algorithm has helped astronomers discover thousands of gravitational lenses predicted by Einstein.

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Collecting a meteorite on the Nansen blue ice area, close to the Belgian Antarctic research station Princess Elisabeth.

Meteorite hunters rejoice: Antarctica probably harbors 300,000 undiscovered space rocks

By Charles Q. Choi published

And scientists now have a better idea of where to find them.

Meteors & Meteor Showers
Image of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, which captures galaxies beyond counting.

Do we live in a simulation? The problem with this mind-bending hypothesis.

By Paul Sutter published

Does the simulation hypothesis offer a compelling argument, or is it just interesting food for thought? Let's find out.

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A powerful X-ray burst erupts from a magnetar — a supermagnetized version of a stellar remnant known as a neutron star — in this illustration.

'Cosmic monster' star spits energy with the force of a billion suns

By Mindy Weisberger published

Scientists just collected the first measurements of violent eruptions in extremely dense magnetic stars called magnetars.

Stars
A knot and a graph representing the problems that the artificial intelligence program DeepMind tackled.

DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades

By Stephanie Pappas published

The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades.

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Are we listening in vain?

SETI: Why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological

By Martin Rees published

Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

Search for Life
"AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future"

New sci-fi anthology 'AI 2041' presents hopeful realities of artificial intelligence

By Jeff Spry published

Authors Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan imagine a fantastic tomorrow ruled by AI.

Space Books
William Shatner is ready for your questions in an artificial intelligence project by StoryFile.

William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life

By Mindy Weisberger published

Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.

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Fishing on the high seas is expensive, and the profits are often small.

Thousands of ocean fishing boats could be using forced labor – we used AI and satellite data to find them

By Gavin McDonald published

Fishing on the high seas is a bit of a mystery, economically speaking.

Satellites
A scientific visualization of a numerical relativity simulation that describes the collision of two black holes consistent with the binary black hole merger GW170814.

Can artificial intelligence help scientists spot gravitational waves?

By Chelsea Gohd published

Scientists hunting for elusive gravitational waves across the universe may be able to supercharge their discoveries with a new tool: artificial intelligence.

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