Have reports of AI replacing mathematicians been greatly exaggerated?
Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats — solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding solutions to some…
Imagine this: A person walks into a room and knocks a ball off a table.
Did you imagine the gender of the person? The color of the ball? The position of the person relative to the ball?
Yes and no, says cognitive scientist Tomer Ullman, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of…
Here’s a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players usually don’t win?
This is the conundrum of elite chess. The stronger the players, the greater the odds of the match ending in a draw.
“What ended up…
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filled an autism committee with friends, associates, and former colleagues who believe that autism is caused by vaccines. Autism advocates are now worried the group could pave the way for dangerous pseudoscientific treatments going mainstream.
Last…
Winter is not for the faint of heart. In Moscow, January temperatures hover in the low teens. In New York City, skyscrapers…
Lawmakers in at least five other states—Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Virginia—have also introduced bills this year that would impose various forms of temporary pauses on data center development. While Georgia, Vermont, and Virginia’s efforts are being led by Democrats,…
In a controversial study published in April last year, researchers described an astonishing phenomenon: a forest of Norway spruce trees (Picea abies) appeared to ‘sync’ their electrical signaling ahead of a partial solar eclipse.
Now there’s a new theory about what was actually going…
In a British propaganda poster from World War II, an illustration in shadowy tones captures a dramatic nighttime scene: a woman…
The Artemis program’s first crewed trip to the moon may be slightly delayed, but the crew is still deep in prep mode. While most of the attention at NASA is focused on prelaunch preparations of the Orion spacecraft and its SLS rocket, the four astronauts face a markedly different protocol. As…
