Quote of the day by J.J. Thomson: "The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!"

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Scientific American

Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart

An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit ...