Today could be a massive day for Xabi Alonso as he looks to cling on to his role as the Real Madrid manager by guiding his team to a win against Manchester City. Many believe Alonso could be sacked if ...

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Researchers analyzed clinical data and RNA expression from the peripheral blood of 174 patients with gout and hyperuricemia that had been collected at week 48 of their participation in the STOP Gout ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Squaring — multiplying a number by itself — seems harmless, but repeat it long enough and it becomes a mathematical explosion. What begins as 2² quickly turns into 2⁴, 2⁸, 2¹⁶ — racing past the limits ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

The push to bring memecoins into the mainstream has just gained a lot of momentum, with REX Shares preparing to launch the first U.S.-listed Dogecoin (DOGE) exchange-traded fund (ETF). If approved, ...

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

If you rotate an image of a molecular structure, a human can tell the rotated image is still the same molecule, but a machine-learning model might think it is a new data point. In computer science ...