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Zirconium tweak unlocks stronger cast aluminum alloy with ductility boost
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science's Department of Materials Engineering have solved a persistent problem in aluminum alloy design: combin…
Tiny magnetic 'flowers' could expand how researchers image spintronic materials under stronger fields
Researchers have developed magnetic nanostructures shaped like tiny flowers that could enable scientists to study spintronic materials under much stro…
Can the biggest problems in AI be solved by philosophy?
AI companies are recruiting philosophy graduates to tackle foundational questions about consciousness, artificial minds, and system reliability. This …
AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor.
# AI Chatbots Dispensing Unreliable Financial Guidance, Says Finance Professor Artificial intelligence chatbots are providing misleading financial ad…
Scientists used AI to crack one of water's biggest mysteries
Researchers at the University of Osaka deployed artificial intelligence to resolve a longstanding puzzle about water's molecular structure in its supe…
AI tools meant to vet science are surprisingly easy to fool
Artificial intelligence systems designed to evaluate scientific papers and catch errors or fraud are vulnerable to manipulation, according to recent r…
Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's last theorem
Mathematicians working at a London event have used artificial intelligence to accelerate the formal verification of Fermat's Last Theorem, one of math…