When we look at what’s happening in Israel and around the world, or try to develop better explanatory frameworks, we often ...
Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.
Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading congenital cause of death in newborns worldwide. Approximately ...
Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple yet powerful method to characterize lithium metal battery performance with the help of a widely used imaging tool: ...
Classification of gas wells is an important part of optimizing development strategies and increasing the recovery. The original classification standard of gas wells in the Sulige gas field has weak ...
Phillip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College, has been studying college financial aid and students’ higher ed spending habits for more than a decade. When his children first started ...
One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.
A few weeks ago, my ears perked up when a gaggle of middle school volleyball players in my car were talking about the teachers they don’t like; I have an unfortunate appetite for tweenage gossip, and ...
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