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5/19/19 AI can learn real-world skills from playing StarCraft and Minecraft When it comes to making an AI that can deal with real-world ambiguity and fast-paced interactions, the most useful tests of machine cognition will probably be found in games played in virtual worlds. Read More An experiment hints at quantum entanglement inside protons Particles inside protons seem to be linked on a scale smaller than a trillionth of a millimeter.  Read More Peacock spiders’ superblack spots reflect just 0.5 percent of light The ultradark spots, found near vivid colors on the spiders’ abdomens, create an “optical illusion that the colors are so bright … they're practically glowing.”  Read More Fossil teeth push the human-Neandertal split back to about 1 million years ago A study of fossilized teeth shifts the age of the last common ancestor between Neandertals and humans. Read More Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the moon may be tectonically active Moonquakes recorded decades ago suggest the moon is tectonically active. Knowing more about that activity could help scientists identify where to land future spacecraft. Read More Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals The first gene-edited snails confirm which gene is responsible for the direction of the shell’s spiral. Read More Does eating ultraprocessed food affect weight gain? It’s complicated “The problem is that nutrition research is rocket science.” Read More Bloodthirsty bedbugs have feasted on prey for 100 million years The first bedbug infestations may have occurred in the beds of Cretaceous critters. Read More Key parts of a fruit fly’s genetic makeup have finally been decoded For the first time, researchers have sequenced the genetic makeup of all of a multicellular organism’s centromeres. Read More Vaccines may help bats fight white nose syndrome Oral inoculation would spread from bat to bat through nuzzles. Read More Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |   Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science & the Public 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US