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This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought

This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought

Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice, and they are getting results.

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What You Need to Know about GPT-4

The AI GPT-4 has emergent abilities—but that’s not why it’s scary.

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A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut

Math is called the “universal language,” but a unique dialect is being reborn.

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A pillar of every neuroscience textbook, the classic “homunculus” has just gone through a radical revision.

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New missions will explore moons with oceans that could harbor life.

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