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Toward Mode Collapse of Natural Language
Regression toward the mean is a simple phenomenon commonly described in Statistics 101 courses. If you measure a parameter describing some phenomenon, you will find that extreme measured values tend t...
Earth Sciences
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Biochar X: Helping Earthworms Navigate Organic Copper Sulfate Contamination
After President Bill Clinton ordered his US Department of Agriculture to make a government "organic" marketing designation for products that used older pesticides and genetic engineering, the industry...
Life Sciences
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The Enchanted Broomstick Of Kinesin-1
In the 1980s, scientists captured the precise mechanics of a protein machine. It looked strange, to researchers its tall thin structure with stubby legs invoked the enchanted broomstick that stole the...
Medicine
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Quantum Sampling Opens a New Route Through Peptide Space
Peptides occupy a productive middle ground in drug discovery. Built from short chains of amino acids, they are large enough to recognize complex biological surfaces with high affinity and selectivity,...
Physical Sciences
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PFAS Can Be Replaced In Medicine - For A Cost
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commmonly called PFAS, are about 12,000 chemicals, nearly all found in nature, and since the 1940s, a handful have been synthesized for use in various products. Be...
Social Sciences
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Defining AI
Artificial Intelligence will probably be remembered as the least well-defined technological advancement of humankind.Ever since the two words were reportedly put together in a sentence - and we know w...
