This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

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Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

A new computational method allows modern atomic models to learn from experimental thermodynamic data, according to a ...

From Physical Emergence to Value Empathy. I. Value Anchoring Based on Physical Mechanisms. The core difference between Congzi AGI and tradition ...

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in ...

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

Let ChatGPT create a password? Sounds convenient and secure. But this can actually be a security issue. Language models seem intelligent and creative, but they hit a fundamental limit when it comes ...

The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is currently navigating two entirely different, violently colliding realities that threaten to tear the national fabric asunder. For the general public, ...