AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation
22 January 2018
Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation
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Black holes are firing a triple-threat of speedy particles at us
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Black holes have the weirdest kids. Three types of the highest energy particles in the cosmos could all be born in the chaos near a supermassive black hole
Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair
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Dice from archaeological digs in the Netherlands and the UK became fairer 600 years ago – 250 years before we began to really understand probability
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New CRISPR method could take gene editing to the next level
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While CRISPR is great at turning off and disabling genes, it isn’t very good at fixing faulty ones. But a powerful new method could change that
Hot yoga’s high temperature may not have any health benefits
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Despite all the extra effort and sweat, a study suggests that the high temperature used in hot yoga classes may not have any useful effect
Some exoplanets orbiting red giant stars may just be a mirage
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Red giant stars may be tricking us into thinking they have planets when they don’t. Instead, sunspots or atmospheric ripples might be distorting their light
Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours
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Most people are much better at identifying colours than smells, but one group of hunter-gatherers from the Malay Peninsula shows the opposite pattern
