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Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that's bad news for patience - Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University

11 hours ago

Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history -- Sanaa El-Sayed, University of Michigan

11 hours ago

From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line -- Michael Gregory, Clemson University

11 hours ago

We analyzed paper money printed by Ben Franklin to uncover his anti‑counterfeiting techniques and materials innovations -- Khachatur Manukyan, University of Notre Dame

10 hours ago

Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an 'undruggable' disease -- Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado Anschutz

2 days ago

Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you -- Vijayan Asari, University of Dayton

1 day ago

Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA's Artemis program into question -- Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University

2 days ago

Your phone screen doesn't have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing -- Douglas Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of the Arts

3 days ago

Dr. ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at diagnosing health problems - but actual doctors are still better at weighing treatment options -- Andrew Parsons, University of Virginia

3 days ago

PFAS leave fingerprints in your blood – researchers are figuring out how forever chemicals transform in your body to read these clues -- Carrie McDonough, Carnegie Mellon University

6 days ago

Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist on three factors that make a paranormal experience more likely -- Melissa Maffeo, Wake Forest University

6 days ago

Latest Science and Technology articles

1 year ago

Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life -- Gideon Yoffe, Weizmann Institute of Science

6 days ago

Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight -- Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology

8 days ago

SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact -- Scott Solomon, Rice University

13 days ago

Solar activity follows an 11-year cycle – here's how it controls eruptions and solar flares -- Yeimy J. Rivera, Smithsonian Institution

14 days ago

Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask -- Marco A. Janssen, Arizona State University; Afreen Siddiqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Parvathy Prem, Johns Hopkins University

20 days ago

More articles about space

1 year ago

Privacy isn't dead – it's just that tech companies have made it inconvenient -- Sandra Matz, Columbia University

7 days ago

AI is replacing humans in responding to some surveys – but simulated opinions are not the same as public opinion -- Ambuj Tewari, University of Michigan

8 days ago

Should AIs be required to report a human user contemplating violence? -- Anat Lior, Drexel University

9 days ago

Dark patterns on the web are designed to manipulate you – why aren't they all illegal? -- Gregory M. Dickinson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Institute for Humane Studies

17 days ago

AI interviewers can't connect with people the way human researchers can – they can produce only data, not meaning -- Kelley Cotter, Penn State; Ankolika De, Penn State, and Priya C. Kumar, Penn State

16 days ago

More articles about artificial intelligence

1 year ago

Self-censorship, more stress, tougher recruiting – we asked US researchers how the Trump administration's science policies have affected them -- Eric Welch, Arizona State University and Timothy P. Johnson, University of Illinois Chicago

15 days ago

How a shifting Nile landscape shaped the rise of the ancient empire of Kush in Sudan -- Geoff Emberling, University of Michigan

16 days ago

Teens aren't as disengaged as you may think: What adults get wrong about adolescents' civic contributions -- Kimia Shirzad, Penn State and Jen Agans, Penn State

27 days ago

Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope slides can uncover billions of fossils for natural history -- Ingrid C. Romero, Smithsonian Institution and Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Institution

30 days ago

Biological age tests reveal what slows or hastens aging – but they're useful only for researchers, not consumers -- Idan Shalev, Penn State and Abner Apsley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

23 days ago

Tapping your genome with AI and quantum computing could deliver on the promise of personalized medicine – but practical and ethical hurdles remain -- Gary Skuse, Rochester Institute of Technology and Sherry Dadgar, George Washington University

1 month ago

Placebo effect can work as well as real medicine – but your body may need permission to use it -- Phil Starks, Tufts University

1 month ago

It's a myth that baby boys are less social than girls – a new look at decades of research shows all babies are born to connect -- Lise Eliot, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

1 month ago

How you map numbers in your mind isn't universal, even among people who read the same language -- Olga Lazareva, Drake University and Reggie Gazes, Bucknell University

15 days ago

You can change your emotions – but it's a 2-step process that takes some effort -- Christian Waugh, Wake Forest University

23 days ago

How does your brain decide between the road not taken or the same old route? Resolving conflicting memories is key to navigation -- Paulina Maxim, Georgia Institute of Technology

24 days ago

Photographic memory is a myth – here's what research really says about remembering -- Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston

29 days ago

More articles about psychology

1 year ago

What happens to debt when someone dies? -- James Malm, College of Charleston

11 hours ago

Why are buttons and zippers on different sides of men's and women's clothes? -- JuYoung Lee, Mississippi State University and Caroline Kobia, Mississippi State University

13 days ago

What are those orange balls on some power lines? -- Rui Bo, Missouri University of Science and Technology

17 days ago

Why did Tyrannosaurus rex have such short arms? -- Sarah Sheffield, Binghamton University, State University of New York

24 days ago

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