There are many ways to test the intelligence of an artificial intelligence—conversational fluidity, reading comprehension or mind-bendingly difficult physics. But some of…
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The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t…
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Aging Rates Vary by Country. Politics Might Be Why Social inequality and the decay of democratic institutions are linked to accelerated aging,…
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New Grok 4 Takes on ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ as the AI Race Heats Up Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it…
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Trump Names Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as Interim NASA Chief The selection of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to temporarily lead NASA…
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My preschooler is obsessed with rules—and, more importantly, exploring their loopholes. When I tell him to stop throwing rocks, he will drop…
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A Thought Experiment Reveals the Fingerprints of Climate Change Came Early Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the…
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As a young doctoral researcher at a university in the southern U.S., Camilo felt like he was finally closing in on his…
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Summer has arrived. For kids, this might mean freedom from schoolwork. But for parents, it can also mean the summer care scramble—the…
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On television broadcasts and forecast maps, hurricanes appear as two-dimensional swirling vortices, belying their extremely complex three-dimensional structure. Being able to peer…
