As "Artificial Intelligence Institutes" become a hot trend in Chinese higher education, with more than 50 universities reportedly establishing related faculties, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate ...

Katherine Bourzac is a science journalist based in San Francisco. Her coverage of microbiology, physics, chemistry and the environment has appeared in Nature, Scientific American and MIT ...

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According to company intelligence expert "Finance Doodle", on September 11, Ma Yi, the Dean of the School of Computing and ...

To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...