Giving AI systems the ability to focus on particular brain regions can make them much better at reconstructing images of what a monkey is looking at from brain recordings

Motor Cars

In this teaser, your job is to try and discover the car model within each sentence.

The model is hiding in the consecutive letters within a sentence.

Example: This recipe calls for only one onion.

Answer: Neon (oNE ONion)


1. The zookeeper gave the chimp a large banana.

2. The police had the home of the pyromaniac cordoned off.

3. There are galactic areas where our starship has not travelled.

4. Do math majors find people with a nice compass attractive?

5. I once saw a gambler from Mexico roll a seven five times in a row.


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Google's Sycamore quantum computer was the first to demonstrate quantum supremacy – solving calculations that would be unfeasible on a classical computer – but now ordinary machines have pulled ahead again

Identical wording placing limits on the export of quantum computers has appeared in regulations across the globe. There doesn't seem to be any scientific reason for the controls, and all can be traced to secret international discussions

Large language models can be abused by malware to help them avoid detection and propagate by crafting realistic replies to emails

Flare

I am bound in a book but you cannot read me,
I am struck and played but not musically,
I am your equal in skill and also in stature,
I am used in heat and light manufacture.

What am I?


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A 1.8-millimetre-wide silicon chip with over 1000 components could help quantum devices communicate without the need for wires or specialised fridges

An AI model learned to predict the choices made by monkeys and their eye movements while playing Pac-Man, hinting that a machine intelligence can “think” in a similar way to mammals

Taiwan’s first ever minister of digital affairs has transformed politics, using online platforms and AI to give power to the country’s citizens – with lessons for us all

Syntrichia caninervis is found in some of the most extreme places on Earth and can survive conditions that would kill almost any other organism, making it a potential candidate for colonising Mars

With lunar exploration ramping up, NASA has been tasked with defining a time zone for the moon. New calculations show that time is ever so slightly faster on the lunar surface, which can affect navigation

An AI that can tell which chess moves are awe-inspiring is being used to make a chess computer that would play creatively, possibly making it more enjoyable to watch or compete against

It was a stormy night when Mr. Death was found dead at Brainteaser Mansion. I, the detective, surveyed the scene as my assistant spoke.
"Mr. Death was hosting a dinner party with his closest confidants. There is no bruising, nor entry or exit wounds, so the cause of death is unknown. I've spoken with each of the four suspects: Sir Stave, Baron Blade, Princess Pentacle and Countess Chalice, who all harbour a potential motive—jealousy, greed, rage, or revenge, and for their safety, they all carry with them constantly a lethal weapon—a revolver, a dagger, poison, and a shotgun. They're in the study, awaiting your arrival."
As I approached the door, I heard a raised voice. I knelt down and pressed my ear against the keyhole to eavesdrop.
"What a rogue's gallery you all are! First, you, who would have murdered him out of sheer revenge. You, who insist you were in the Music Room. Last, we have the wicked schemer, who keeps a revolver hidden in her handbag!"
A woman countered, her voice barely more than a whisper.
"You brute! No one believes your alibi of being outside anyway! Why accuse us ladies when we all know our fellow guest here would be greedy enough to shoot him."
Another woman's voice, frail yet venomous, replied.
"I'm no schemer, but you're vile! Smirking while you clean your fingernails with your dagger! Oh... if I had my handbag right now, I'd...You're lucky I left it in the ga..."
Deciding I'd heard enough, I swung open the study door.
A man stepped forward, his voice confirming him as the only speaker I had not yet heard.
"Oh Detective, you've arrived just in time! You must arrest Countess Chalice. She's just threatened this poor man! She's always been prone to fits of rage!"
"Who might you be?" I asked.
"I am Sir Stave!"
In that moment, drawing on all the evidence I had both seen and heard, I knew with certainty who the killer was, their motive, the weapon used, and their claimed location at the time of the murder.

Do you?


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The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted hundreds of odd, distant galaxies that seem to either produce an impossible amount of stars or host black holes far more enormous than they should be

Halt!

Can you identify what phrase is represented here?


nasmetofolopve


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ChatGPT-written exam submissions for a psychology degree mostly went undetected and tended to get better marks than real students’ work

A "new" star system, T Coronae Borealis, will become visible to the naked eye between now and September. Abigail Beall explains how to spot it

Photographer Ignacio Evangelista's stark shots shine a light on the little-known VOR beacons, once key to aviation navigation but now being replaced by GPS

Some people find the scale of the universe existentially frightening, but here's why you should take it as a source of comfort

See the circle of galaxy clusters and voids that surround us in this map of the nearby cosmos, extending 200 million light years in each direction