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Reinforcement learning techniques could be the keys to integrating robots — who use machine learning to output more than words — into the real world.

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A study in mice looked at how feelings of reward and withdrawal that opioids trigger play out in two separate circuits in the brain.

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An experimental weight loss procedure blasts the stomach lining with heat to curb hunger and cut pounds.

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