Hidden “immune organ” in the skull may help fight brain cancer
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified previously unknown lymph node-like immune structur...
What Shakespeare got wrong about AI
He wrote about a magic you could always stop. We built the kind that gets loose.He understood us better than science fiction ever has. ...
Yes, this summer really was as hot as you think it was
Let’s put this summer’s extraordinary heat in perspective.
Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi...
Scientists recreated what mice saw from brain activity alone
Scientists have reconstructed short videos using only brain activity recorded from mice, effectively allowing researchers to recreate w...
As Russia attacks Ukraine’s grid, solar offers a path to resilience
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She governs a US territory. But she has no say in who mines its waters.
Lou Leon Guerrero, the governor of Guam, learned about the government’s plan to mine her people’s waters the same way everyone else did...
Don’t let AI build a Winchester Mystery House
A house built for 38 years without a plan, and the apps we are shipping the same way.Each new feature works alone and connects to nothi...
Loneliness and desire for thinness explain sex differences in adolescent internalizing problems
Salk, R. H., Hyde, J. S. & Abramson, L. Y. Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: meta-ana...
Scientists discover a major brain shift between ages 50 and 75
Researchers have found that the human brain begins undergoing broad changes in the way its genome is regulated starting in midlife. The...
Complexity is a unified cognitive kind
Godfrey-Smith, P. Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998).Godfrey-Smith, P. in The Evolu...