Scientists reveal the hidden instructions that build the human brain
Before birth, the human brain is assembled through an enormous series of cellular choices. At the center of this process are radial gli...
A longer exhale may push your brain toward bolder decisions
A new study suggests that deliberately changing the rhythm of your breathing can influence how you make decisions by altering activity ...
Stanford scientists discover a seafood that can reverse signs of aging
Aging often makes itself visible in familiar ways, from gray hair and wrinkles to lapses in memory. That has fueled a longstanding scie...
With the midterms looming, Trump has no real way out of his gas price problem
It has been more than two months since President Donald Trump’s tentative ceasefire with Iran broke down, and gaso...
What Minority Report got wrong about AI (so far)
The film gave us two futures. We rebuilt the one that was easy to demo.The film cautioned against predictive systems and pre-crime, and...
How contemporary academic structures constrain scientific creativity and hold back early-career researchers
Haubrock, P. J. & Everts, T. Can there be another Einstein? Creat. Res. J
Mourning the loss of AI companions
De Freitas, J. & Tempest-Keller, N. Replika AI: Monetizing a Chatbot 1–29 (Harvard Business Publishing, 2022).Nass, C., ...
One immune switch may help drive aging across the body
Aging happens at different speeds from one person to another, but it eventually affects everyone. New research from Stanford Medicine, ...
Fiber optic cables reveal ‘icequakes’ in endangered glaciers
One of the hottest, most fascinating new fields in science doesn’t sound particularly exciting: distributed acoust...