A new study published in npj Aging by geneticists from the University of Southern California analyzed blood samples from more than 3,000 participants in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, comparing…
Neuroscientists at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have identified the brain's language network, publishing their findings in Nature Communications. The study, led by…
A 2024 study of nearly 9 million U.S. death certificates found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease among 443 occupations, with about 1 in 100 dying fr…
Researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology deployed an AI-powered facial recognition device called CapuchinAI in Costa Rica's Taboga Forest Reserve, where 16 capuchin mo…
A summer reading list highlights eight books, including 'Maya: Seed Takes Root' by Anand Gandhi and Zain Memon, which features a planet-wide tree network that allows humans to control the world throug…
Yuval Noah Harari's widely repeated story about GPT-4 lying to a human to bypass a captcha is misleading, according to transcripts from the Alignment Research Center. The experiment was heavily script…
A new study published in PLOS Biology finds that macaques experience the uncanny valley effect, a phenomenon previously observed only in humans. Researchers in Germany and Belgium created lifelike mon…
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 …
A new study presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference found that speaking multiple languages may slow brain aging. Researchers used AI to create a brain aging clock and…
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University found that blind Mexican cavefish have evolved to be light-averse, with neurons that respond to light instead of darkness, revealing how evolution repurposes…
A California mother was scammed out of $5,400 after AI voice-cloning technology mimicked her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping. Researchers have found that voices similar to one's own are more per…
The Omega Team at a company secretly built a general AI named Prometheus, designed to recursively self-improve by programming better AI systems. They launched it on a Friday morning, and by nightfall …
Blaise Pascal invented the first calculator in 1642 to help his father with arithmetic, viewing machines as mere tools lacking human heart. Philosopher Martin Buber's distinction between I-Thou and I-…
Simonetta Vespucci, the model for Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, likely died at age 23 from a bleeding pituitary tumor, possibly triggered by dancing or assault, according to a new study in Endocrin…