Audio scale up student’s book Course 3 Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan State University of World Languages

Scientific Breakthroughs
ROBERT T.GONZALES, ANNALEE NEWITZ
Science and engineering sustained incredible 
achievements lately. We sent a powerful robot scientist 
to Mars, and we discovered the elusive Higgs Boson 
particle, there were world-changing innovations 
in medicine and materials science. We sequenced 
a genome of a human ancestor, and looked into the 
mind of an artificial intelligence that recognized the 
content of images on the web for the first time.
NASA’s CURIOSITY ROVER, the biggest and 
most scientifically capable rover ever sent to another 
planet, has already made intriguing discoveries. 
It began poring over the pages of Mars’ history, as 
it scans the layers of sedimentary rock comprising 
Mount Sharp, in search of signs o f whether the planet 
can, or ever could support life.
Synthetic biologists demonstrated that artificial 
nucleic acids known as “XNAs” can replicate and 
evolve just like DNA and RNA, and are even more 
resistant to degradation than the real thing. The 
implications of evolvable artificial genetic information 
stand to affect everything from genetic research to 
the search for alien life, to the creation of entirely 
synthetic, alternative life form.
Does anybody really have any doubt that the 
world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) will be born 
in a Google server farm? This dream came closer
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to reality this year when Google’s secretive X lab 
produced evidence that it had developed a neural 
network that could actually recognize what it was 
seeing in the pictures. This is the first time computers 
have taught themselves to recognize the content of 
images, and is a major leap forward in the quest to 
find ourselves some artificially intelligent friends