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One-third of researchers leave science shortly after their first publication. Plus, which election system is the fairest?

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton pioneered computational methods that enabled the development of neural networks.

Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing.