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Atlassian’s Tiffany To shows that experimentation grounded in real use cases, tested assumptions, and trust is the key to moving AI from theory to traction.

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One year ago, the PHG Foundation report, Host genomics: lessons for infectious diseases, highlighted the promise of host ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Archaeologists in Denmark say a sunken Viking ship near Copenhagen is the largest boat of its kind ever discovered—and that’s ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

How do new words like “safe space,” “dogpile,” and “alt-right” make it into the dictionary? Journalist Stefan Fatsis finds ...

The rise of antibiotic resistance has renewed interest in bacteriophages as therapeutic alternatives. However, co-evolution of phage and bacteria will naturally give rise to phage-resistant pathogens, ...

In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ...