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Your aging brain may be trading memory for something more valuable
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Trump vowed to stop an ‘energy emergency.’ Then he created a real one.
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump declared that the United States was experiencing a “na...
Modern neuroscience is rediscovering a surprising idea freud had 130 years ago
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“Mind-blowing” Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Two hours of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques
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Use AI to heterogenize science
Large language models learn by associating patterns in existing text, which pulls their output towards the statistical centre: the...
Human attention is the new old bottleneck. We have to design for it even more.
A wide office floor where one person reads at a desk while dozens of screens around them keep filling with new work for them to address...
Scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize for controlling brain cells with light
Scientists who worked out how to control brain cells with light have won this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Karl Deisse...
The case for AI degrowth
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