Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the origins of life and mind in one fell swoop ...

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.” The characters in Philip K.

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

Two researchers advocate for new AI-based measures not because they offer measurement free from error, but rather because they avoid specific problematic forms of error linked to overreliance on ...

Edtech has always been a mirror of whatever society believes about learning at a given moment. When the world is optimistic about progress, education technology gets framed as a rocket ship: faster ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

A flexible electronic skin inspired by shark electroreception lets robotic hands identify object shapes and materials through both non-contact electrostatic scanning and touch-based sensing.

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...

The Texas Funeral Service Commission imploded this summer. This is what happened behind the scenes at the agency meant to regulate death care.

The Victory Sophus Emerging Markets Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q4 2024 despite global volatility. Read the full ...

A year of turbulence has exposed the dangers of philanthropic monocultures and upended assumptions about impact, effectiveness, and scale. Embracing the varied intentions that motivate people to give ...