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How Can AI ID a Cat? An Illustrated Guide.
Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.
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How Smell Guides Our Inner World
A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into perception in your brain.
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Flow Alone Won’t Make You a Writer
Writing starts with flow, but it’s sustained by discipline, revision, and grit.
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Is Paddy Heneghan Dead?
Ecosystem ecologist Liam Heneghan, keeping vigil by his father’s bedside, glimpses how all life resides in the kingdom of decay.
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RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System
How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger.