To this day, animal testing remains one of the most controversial issues in animal rights. Activists have been fighting ...

In the United States, the share of new code written with AI assistance has skyrocketed from a mere 5% in 2022 to a staggering ...

Inside the mind of a decision scientist: What influences what we choose.

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Towards the end of last year, Rashik Parmar began getting calls from anxious students who had just graduated with degrees in ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

A randomized trial from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center reveals that magnesium may be the missing key to keeping vitamin D levels in balance. The study found that magnesium raised vitamin D in people ...

Quantum computers may look futuristic, but inside them, tiny mistakes are quietly piling up and remembering each other. A new breakthrough by Australian and international scientists shows that errors ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

Today's guest is the science writer Matt Ridley, author of best-selling books such as The Red Queen, The Rational Optimist, and, with Alina Chan, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. At a ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...