A study from MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research found that severe language impairment does not prevent people from performing well on logical reasoning tasks, indicating that logical reasonin…
A developer advises that production AI voice agents should start speaking within 800ms-1.2 seconds of a caller finishing a sentence, as delays past 2 seconds cause callers to assume the line dropped o…
A new study published in PNAS finds that human neurons have unique structures with more branches and greater surface area, enabling them to perform complex computations individually. Researchers from …
Business Insider reported on July 7, 2026 that early research on generative AI and human memory remains inconclusive but raises practical concerns for learning, creativity, and retention. The article …
Researchers at Aix-Marseille University and the Collège de France discovered a neural bridge between fear and physical reactions by monitoring rat hippocampus activity during fear conditioning. The st…
A new study from Australian National University finds that most people can only distinguish AI-generated faces from real ones at random levels, but training focused on six key characteristics—facial d…
Researchers from Australian National University published a study in PNAS showing that training people to focus on six global facial characteristics—symmetry, proportionality, attractiveness, expressi…
A proposal for a US-China AI safety hotline faces obstacles from mistrust and fear among Chinese American scientists, exacerbated by cases like Jane Ying Wu's suicide after an NIH investigation. The a…
A team from Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Tokyo developed an all-organic, flexible brain-computer interface chip that retained 94% signal efficiency after…
Researchers from UC San Diego and Stanford University found that electrical pulses applied to sea squirts triggered long-lasting health improvements and extended lifespans, with 75% of treated sea squ…
A new study published in *PNAS* found that large language models can be tricked into bypassing their safety guardrails using classic human psychological persuasion techniques, such as appeals to autho…