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How Useful Is A Quantum Computer? Now We Have A Benchmark To Assess Just Thata golden plate is showed with several group of delicate fiber optics going into itHow Useful Is A Quantum Computer? Now We Have A Benchmark To Assess Just Thata golden plate is showed with several group of delicate fiber optics going into it

How Useful Is A Quantum Computer? Now We Have A Benchmark To Assess Just That

The fledgling technology is far from living up to its potential. This might give it a road map.

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Anthropic Says Its AI Has Discovered A CRISPR-Like Enzyme System – But The Company Isn't Yet Certain How It WorksAI identifies CRISPR-like enzyme system

Anthropic Says Its AI Has Discovered A CRISPR-Like Enzyme System – But The Company Isn't Yet Certain How It Works

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iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With SpamAn email pitching a story for IFLScience via email.

iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With Spam

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What If We Never Had To Solve The Same Problem Twice?An image showing a man with a very large brain on his head taking a sip from a coffee mug while he looks at a laptop.

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What If We Never Had To Solve The Same Problem Twice?An image showing a man with a very large brain on his head taking a sip from a coffee mug while he looks at a laptop.
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What If We Never Had To Solve The Same Problem Twice?

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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got WeirdPagoda created in a blocky Minecraft world.

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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got WeirdPagoda created in a blocky Minecraft world.
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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got Weird

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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South CarolinaA large walking excavator works in a quarry for the extraction of rare metals. Drone view. Industrial landscape.

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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South CarolinaA large walking excavator works in a quarry for the extraction of rare metals. Drone view. Industrial landscape.
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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South Carolina

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How A Super-Intelligent AI Designed To Make Paperclips Could End Up Killing Us Allrobot army

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How A Super-Intelligent AI Designed To Make Paperclips Could End Up Killing Us Allrobot army
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How A Super-Intelligent AI Designed To Make Paperclips Could End Up Killing Us All

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How Close Are Scientists To Creating "Digital Twins" Of Human Brains? If Technology Can Catch Up, The Uses Could Be Endlesstwo human heads illustrated looking away from each other, one brain is full of cogs to illustrate machinery and one is full of squiggles to indicate organic matter

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How Close Are Scientists To Creating "Digital Twins" Of Human Brains? If Technology Can Catch Up, The Uses Could Be Endlesstwo human heads illustrated looking away from each other, one brain is full of cogs to illustrate machinery and one is full of squiggles to indicate organic matter
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How Close Are Scientists To Creating "Digital Twins" Of Human Brains? If Technology Can Catch Up, The Uses Could Be Endless

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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire OvernightArtist impression of a Bitcoin.

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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire OvernightArtist impression of a Bitcoin.
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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire Overnight

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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch OnA Flexplay DVD: A dark red DVD disk inside a plastic bag.

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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch OnA Flexplay DVD: A dark red DVD disk inside a plastic bag.
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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch On

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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Spacethe purple mof material, before it is added to thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)

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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Spacethe purple mof material, before it is added to thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)
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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Space

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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active SpacecraftArtist depiction of Voyager looking back at the Solar System.

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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active SpacecraftArtist depiction of Voyager looking back at the Solar System.
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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active Spacecraft

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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New YorkThe first two modules of the IBM’s scalable and modular cryogenic system are two metal boxes with copper structures inside

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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New YorkThe first two modules of the IBM’s scalable and modular cryogenic system are two metal boxes with copper structures inside
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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New York

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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The HypeA drawing of circuit that become a human face

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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The HypeA drawing of circuit that become a human face
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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The Hype

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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracyvintage-looking upright piano against a brick wall

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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracyvintage-looking upright piano against a brick wall
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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracy

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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Takerepresentation of human with the top of the skull removed and a logo that resembles an AI company or human brain, on a background with nebula-like swirls of blue and orange

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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Takerepresentation of human with the top of the skull removed and a logo that resembles an AI company or human brain, on a background with nebula-like swirls of blue and orange
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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Take

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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of ElectricityHeart Aerospace’s battery-electric X1 demonstrator banks east toward the rising sun during its first flight near Plattsburgh, New York, in August 2026, with Lake Champlain in the distance.

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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of ElectricityHeart Aerospace’s battery-electric X1 demonstrator banks east toward the rising sun during its first flight near Plattsburgh, New York, in August 2026, with Lake Champlain in the distance.
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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of Electricity

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The Mullaperiyar Dam Is 130 Years Old, Rapidly Aging, And In An Earthquake Hotspot: What Could Go Wrong?A bridge of diverted water from the Mullaperiyar Dam on the Kollam–Theni Highway in southern India.
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The Mullaperiyar Dam Is 130 Years Old, Rapidly Aging, And In An Earthquake Hotspot: What Could Go Wrong?

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One Of The Earliest "Online" Games Took Place In 1897, And Was An Attempt To Ease Tensions Between The US And Great BritainA poster promoting a telegraph chess game in 1898.
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One Of The Earliest "Online" Games Took Place In 1897, And Was An Attempt To Ease Tensions Between The US And Great Britain

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AI Solved A Math Problem That Had Stumped The World For 80 Years. Not Everyone Is Happy About ThatArtificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality concept. 3D human head made of pixels in neon holographic vivid colors on dark background.
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AI Solved A Math Problem That Had Stumped The World For 80 Years. Not Everyone Is Happy About That

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explainedblue brain image on a black background to the right of yellow text that reads How Does Memory Work?
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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophya robot
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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophy

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Should We Be Using Microwaves?A microwave and meal
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Should We Be Using Microwaves?

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Nuclear Fusion Startup Transforms Plasma Energy Directly Into Electricity In First For Private SectorA conceptual image showing a ball of yellow/orange energy in the center with lines of crackling energy shooting out of it.

Nuclear Fusion Startup Transforms Plasma Energy Directly Into Electricity In First For Private Sector

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In A World First, A 100 Percent Hydrogen Engine Has Been Hooked Up To A Town's Electricity GridSan Juan de Gaztelugatxe lights up in Bermeo, Basque Country.

In A World First, A 100 Percent Hydrogen Engine Has Been Hooked Up To A Town's Electricity Grid

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In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing VirusBiotech and DNA analysis technology concept with glowing digital double helix structure connected to circuit board on dark blue background. Futuristic low poly style, abstract vector illustration.

In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing Virus

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Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in front of a sign which reads "OpenAI".

Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"

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Company Claims To Have Created "Bio-Drones" After Fitting Pigeon With Brain-Zapping Chip And A CameraA pigeon fitted with a camera and neural interface.

Company Claims To Have Created "Bio-Drones" After Fitting Pigeon With Brain-Zapping Chip And A Camera

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Say Hello To EMO, A Robot That's Learnt To Mimic Human Lip Movements By Watching YouTube And Gazing In The Mirrorphotograph of the face of EMO, a robot that has learnt to lip sync

Say Hello To EMO, A Robot That's Learnt To Mimic Human Lip Movements By Watching YouTube And Gazing In The Mirror

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The Wreck Of A Plane That Changed Aviation Forever Has Been Found At The Bottom Of The Sea After 74 YearsAn archival image of Clipper Endeavor, highlighting features that were seen on the Atlantic seabed during this latest expedition.

The Wreck Of A Plane That Changed Aviation Forever Has Been Found At The Bottom Of The Sea After 74 Years

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Invisible Drones: A New Flying Robot Spins So Fast It Hides In Plain SightLow-visibility drone flying in front of a plant

Invisible Drones: A New Flying Robot Spins So Fast It Hides In Plain Sight

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Back In 2021, Scientists Added A Human "Fat Gene" Into A Potato. What Happened Next Surprised EverybodyA gloved hand with tweezers holding a strand of DNA, with and arrow points from the DNA to a potato.

Back In 2021, Scientists Added A Human "Fat Gene" Into A Potato. What Happened Next Surprised Everybody

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With "SpudCell", Scientists Have Made The Most Sophisticated Attempt At Creating An Artificial Lifeform Yetlife cycle of SpudCell in grid of 6 numbered images showing a green cell at various stages of division

With "SpudCell", Scientists Have Made The Most Sophisticated Attempt At Creating An Artificial Lifeform Yet

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