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Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful tool for one of science’s most ambitious goals: detecting life beyond Earth. But a new study warns that current AI systems may be fundamentally ...

Academy Award®-nominated director Robert Stone is coming to RPI’s campus for a special screening of his film Starman, ...