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| By Gale Staff | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry for advances related to the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Geoffrey E. Hinton, a British-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto, shared the physics award with Princeton professor John J. Hopfield for, as … Read more
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| By Barbara Wexler, MPH | Epilepsy is a chronic (long-term) neurological disorder where people have repeated seizures because of unusual or abnormal electrical activity in the brain. These seizures can show up in many different ways, from nearly imperceptible moments of zoning out to intense shaking and severe convulsions. There are many different potential … Read more
| By K. Lee Lerner| Made popular by a million memes, the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment (also called the Schrödinger’s cat paradox), devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961). In 1935, was designed to illustrate the often bizarre implications of quantum mechanics (specifically, superposition and the concept of quantum measurement). Analogous to a radioactive atom … Read more
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| By Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, RN | In what may be one of the most passionate (or imprudent) examples of dedication to science in recent years, a researcher in Brazil stepped on one species of the country’s most venomous snakes more than 4,000 times to determine what makes it most likely to bite. His findings, … Read more
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