When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable strides in recent years, particularly in its ability to reason. At the heart of this evolution are new technologies like neural networks and large ...

"Over centuries of evolution, humans’ pattern recognition skills determined natural selection. Hunters skilled at spotting prey and predator and telling poisonous plants from healthy ones offered them ...

Researchers describe a new manner of detecting microbial infection that intercepts pathogen-derived signals of growth to assess the relative threat of virulent bacteria. A nuclear hormone receptor in ...

One of the great myths in the technosphere is that musicians make good programmers because music is like math. I disagree. Music is not enough like math for any relevant or significant skill transfer.

NYT Connections, a daily word puzzle, challenges players to find four thematic categories among 16 words. The November 13, ...