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Visual Turing test

Michael Barclay and at the University of Exeter, UK, and colleagues have created a test that asks machines to mimic some of our visual abilities

By New Scientist

13 September 2011

Mathematicians solve 125-year-old problem to unite key laws of physics

Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the individual particles within it? This question, first asked in 1900, now has a solution that could help us understand the complex behaviour of the atmosphere and oceans.

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