As they lay dying
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Physicist Steven Thaler randomly severed the links between the units of his artificial neural network to determine how the system will behave as it broke down. To his surprise, he discovered that as the network 'dies,' it comes up with novel and more creative solutions to specific problems.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1995
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The all-star of buckyball
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Chemistry scholar Richard E. Smalley discovered buckminsterfullerene, a molecule of 60 carbon atoms, with a group of scientists. The so-called buckyball is the third known form carbon along with diamonds and graphite, and has the potential for wide commercial use.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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Noisy nucleotides; DNA sequences show fractal correlations
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Researchers H. Eugene Stanley, Wentian Li and Richard F. Voss have demonstrated that nucleotide sequence in DNA is not random. To some extent, the where nucleotides are positioned in a DNA sequence depends on the nucleotides that came before it.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
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