To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

After a decade-long quest to fill a major gap in basic biology, UChicago scientists have built a complete map of how cells ...

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When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement. It is drawing on a lifetime of bodily ...

A collection of over forty new studies about the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) has now been published in Nature. This work encompasses the efforts of more than 3,600 HCA members from over one hundred ...

While it might feel as though artificial intelligence is getting dangerously smart, there are still some basic concepts that AI doesn’t comprehend as well as humans do. Back in March, we reported that ...

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars ...

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The past few decades have seen the emergence of several diseases with drastic public health and economic consequences. Understanding routes of pathogen emergence and transmission is critical to ...

Unlike the controlled environments of factories or warehouses, everyday communication in homes is filled with ambiguity that ...

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