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...
Smelling chocolate helped men complete more reps without feeling more tired
A tough leg day may have an unexpectedly simple boost: the smell of chocolate. According to a new study published in Frontiers in Physi...
Building health-literate artificial intelligence | Nature Human Behaviour
Afroogh, S., Akbari, A., Malone, E., Kargar, M. & Alambeigi, H. Trust in AI: progress, challenges, and future directions...
Large estimated size of the Australian Indigenous population before its extensive decline following colonial invasion
Ryan, L. et al. Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia 1788-1930 (Univ. Newcastle, 2022)
Gray whales are starving as the Arctic warms. Will the US protect them?
Several hundred scientists, government officials, and environmentalists gathered for an unusual two-day conference...
Defining collectivism as duties in relationships rather than generalized warmth improves predictive validity in 100 cultures
Surveying psychologists’ intuitionsA sceptic might argue that these are outdated misunderstandings. After all, t...
Trump is about to topple the last pillar of Biden’s climate agenda
Coal is by far the dirtiest of the world’s major energy sources. It accounts for almost half of the cumulative glo...