Games such as chess have long been mastered by thinking machines. But weightier intellectual feats, such as deducing the laws of nature, have remained the domain of living, breathing brainiacs — until now.
YEAST LAWS REDONE After being fed data on yeast glucose metabolism, Eureqa reproduced the seven known equations that govern the process (three shown above).
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