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Take a peek inside a flickering candle flame with these 3D-printed shapes

New research from MIT explores fire from a whole series of new perspectives. The research uses deep-learning approaches that extract the vibrational features of flames as flickering objects and, in turn, renders them into sounds and materials. The 19th-century physicist Michael Faraday was known not only for his seminal experimental contributions to electromagnetism but also […]

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DeepMind’s new AI tool helps resolve debate over ancient Athenian decrees

Enlarge / This fragmented inscription records a decree concerning the Acropolis of Athens and dates back to 485-484 BCE. (credit: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0) Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of damaged inscriptions from ancient Greece. The new system, […]