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The Arecibo telescope suffered a fatal collapse, tearing it apart

[ad_1] The famous Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico, which once starred in a James Bond film, collapsed on Tuesday when its 900-tonne receiving platform plummeted 140 meters onto the radio dish below. Engineers had recently warned of the massive facility’s decayed condition, and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) …

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Artificial intelligence solves biology’s “great challenge” 50 years before experts predicted

[ad_1] A long-standing and incredibly complex scientific problem regarding the structure and behavior of proteins has been effectively solved by a new artificial intelligence (AI) system, the scientists report. DeepMind, the UK-based artificial intelligence company, has been thrilling us for years with its parade of ever-changing neural networks that continually …

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