New research reveals that intelligence plays a key role in how well people process speech in noisy environments. The study ...
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The Hechinger Report explores the potential of AI, like ChatGPT, to improve student writing while cautioning against ...
In this adapted excerpt from "How to Change a Memory," author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led ...
The New York Times dubbed him “the academic who fought football hooliganism,” and now he’s advising Portland police on crowd control.
In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...
In various contexts, for practical, philosophical, and logical reasons, there is a default assumption. In the criminal justice system, for example, someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. T ...
Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...
AI may help radiologists evaluate mammograms for breast cancer more effectively, but researchers at UCLA, UC Davis and ...
Today in the Planet Money newsletter, five recent papers that lit lightbulbs in our brains, and are maybe worth taking a look ...
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