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Are robots taking our jobs?

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imageIs this a vision of the future?Robot worker image via shutterstock.com

If you put water on the stove and heat it up, it will at first just get hotter and hotter. You may then conclude that heating water results only in hotter water. But at some point everything changes – the water starts to boil, turning from hot liquid into steam. Physicists...

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