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Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits ...

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their ...

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The largest yet study on a four-day workweek included 141 companies, 90 percent of which retained the arrangement at the end ...