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  1. Health & Medicine

    AI can give you your voice back

    People who have lost the ability to talk are finding new voices with technology. This technological feat is changing what it means to lose a voice.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Brain implants are helping people who’ve lost their voice

    The technology could get those with ALS, Parkinson’s disease and brain injuries “talking” again.

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  3. Artificial Intelligence

    Can math stay human in the age of AI?

    As AI churns out mathematical proofs, a DeepMind study raises a bigger question: What do we lose when we focus only on the answers?

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  4. Space

    Voyager 1 is nearly one light-day from Earth. What’s out there?

    On November 18, Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth. It’s still finding surprises in interstellar space.

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  5. Artificial Intelligence

    Can AI reason without words? A small model puts the idea to the test

    The newest “Dragon Hatchling” AI model is testing whether skipping words in intermediate reasoning could cut computational cost.

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  6. Space

    Big space mirrors could bring Earth on-demand light — and upend our night sky

    A space satellite that would offer light on demand has astronomers asking: Who controls the night sky?

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  7. Artificial Intelligence

    When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame

    When AI agents hack real systems, the bigger issue may be the human choices that gave them access, autonomy and too few safeguards.

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  8. Math

    A human set a new mathematical record. Then AI came for it

    OpenAI is at the center of another controversy over machines tackling big math problems. This one’s about the twin prime conjecture.

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  9. Math

    AI may have solved one of math’s biggest puzzles, raising controversy

    For decades, researchers wondered if the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, break down. OpenAI put thousands of agents on the question.

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