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ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is not just for playing games. It also has important practical uses. One such is in Semantic

IN 2016 Lee Sedol, one of the world’s best players of Go, lost a match in Seoul to a computer

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THIS year’s Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet of Lausanne University, in Switzerland, Joachim Frank of

SCIENCE is an international affair. Researchers from different countries frequently collaborate with each other, a process made ever easier by

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IN 2015 a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported on the personality types of