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Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost memory Nora Bradford, Quanta Magazine Some solutions are reached incrementally ...

The present study examines the development of medical science during the COVID-19 pandemic in light of Ernst Mayr's critique of Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of scientific revolutions. Kuhn's model, which ...

OpenAI pushed back against Musk's lawsuit, accusing the billionaire of selectively using internal documents to misrepresent the company's origins and its shift to a for-profit structure. In a detailed ...

You’ve probably seen an artificial intelligence system go off track. You ask for a video of a dog, and as the dog runs behind the love seat, its collar disappears. Then, as the camera pans back, the ...

Revolutions throughout history have often had a charismatic central figure at their core, such as Lenin, Mao or Castro. But beginning in the late 20th century, a wave of protests and revolutions ...

Rulemaking involves individual regulators and agencies fleshing out the details of a law passed by legislators. It can include publishing proposed rules and seeking public comment. It could take many ...

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WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines how the U.S. Department of Energy could use foundation models for scientific research, and finds ...

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Assets that rise rapidly above their long-term trend are usually set for a fall. That’s what happened to gold after it peaked in late 1979. Over the following ...