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How frogs and fish can help us learn to freeze humans

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imageHe who shoots first gets frozen longest.lrosa, CC BY-SA

From Star Wars to Futurama to Alien, the idea that humans can be frozen in time in order to be awoken later is a well-established sci-fi trope. While stopping biological time or inducing long-term hibernation is still as far off as the long-distance space travel that it’s associated with...

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Why we fell out of love with algorithms inspired by nature

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imageStrictly for the birds?muratart

While computers are poor at creativity, they are adept at crunching through vast numbers of solutions to modern problems where there are numerous complex variables at play. Take the question of finding the best delivery plan for a distribution company – where best to begin? How many vehicles? Which stretches of...

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