Pop culture may have fooled us into believing that smartness comes in a fast, sharp and suave package. Here are three ...

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025) ...

When faced with something new, human beings instinctively reach for comparisons. A child learning about atoms might hear that electrons orbit the nucleus “like planets orbit the sun.” An entrepreneur ...

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series exploring additive manufacturing. The Pentagon has poured unprecedented funds into additive manufacturing as a potential game-changer for ...

Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep them from sticking together. The breakthrough enables the production of ...

The success of DeepSeek’s powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model R1 — that made the US stock market plummet when it was released in January — did not hinge on being trained on the output of its ...

As artificial intelligence got smarter, it was supposed to become too cheap to meter. It’s proving to be anything but. Developers who buy AI by the barrel, for apps that do things like make software ...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently upheld New York City's prohibition on steeped kava beverages, concluding that steeping kava root in water constitutes the ...

Swansea University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Robert F. Kennedy Jr has spent years railing against food additives, framing them as part of a broader threat to public health.

Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all ...

Walk into any parts store and you'll see the rows of glossy bottles promising to stop engine wear, boost fuel economy, and make your old clunker run like it just rolled out of the factory. The auto ...