A newly published study has found that artificial intelligence agents can develop and pass on self-propagating ideas, dubbed ...

New research has found that reductions in the severity of delusions in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders recovering from an acute psychotic episode were significantly associated with ...

From working with Richard Feynman at Caltech to recently winning the Dirac Medal, theoretical physicist Deepak Dhar in ...

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Researchers have figured out how to induce lucid dreaming—and are using it to help answer to ancient questions about our minds.

Two American companies are pursuing rival manufacturing strategies for these long-promised cells in an industry China dominates ...

Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers call recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.  But a new study suggests that it might take a while for us to get there. The ...

A new analysis of thousands of NSF and NIH grant applications—including some confidential rejected submissions—illuminates new patterns in generative AI’s relationship with federally funded research.

The start-up’s grant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative will fund an international information sharing system designed to flag biosecurity threats from AI ...

Visit the 100-acre UC Davis Arboretum on any weekday morning, and you'll likely find an ecology class studying wildlife, ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators ...