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Google DeepMind can beat humans at table tennis
Google's DeepMind has been used to train a robot arm to play table tennis, and it beat human players.
NASA shuts down down asteroid-hunting NEOWISE telescope...
NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE space telescope will soon plunge into Earth's atmosphere and burn to bits. Here's a look back at its...
Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why
A rare gene variant may explain why a subset of patients with ALS recover from the deadly disease.
Double mastectomies don't increase cancer survival, study...
Other types of surgery besides double mastectomies are equally good at lowering death rates in women with cancer in one breast.
'Breaking,' aka breakdancing, is in the Olympics for the...
Here's the brain science of breaking, the dance style making its Olympic debut in Paris.
Barrage of solar explosions could bring auroras to the...
Three powerful solar eruptions could bring auroras as far south as New York and Idaho right at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower...
10 crafty ways animals hunt their prey
Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods...
What's the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative...
There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes' biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics.
