2019-08-27 Adam Gaier, Student Researcher and David Ha, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, Tokyo When training a neural network to accomplish a given task, be it image classification or reinforcement learning, one typically refines a set of weights associated with…
2019-08-26 by Stanford University Water is everywhere on Earth, but maybe that just gives it more space to hide its secrets. Its latest surprise, Stanford researchers report Aug. 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is that microscopic…
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2011-07-11 Kim Zetter It was January 2010, and investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the cascade…
2019-08-17 Oliver Franklin-Wallis ‘Everything you own will one day become property of the £250bn global waste industry.’ Composite: Guardian Design TeamYou sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign…
2019-08-07 James Hamblin An apple contains about 100 million bacteria—a more diverse range than any dietary supplement.