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In the brain’s language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.
“Personhood” credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?
A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI’s impact on jobs.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.
There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
Hang on to something — or ride the wave — because three big tech trends are about to converge.
“We didn’t build anything face-ish into our network [but] managed to segregate themselves without being given a face-specific nudge.”
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that respond to singing but not other types of music.
Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions.
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More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
A lab identifies which genes are linked to abnormal repetitive behaviors found in addiction and schizophrenia.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
MIT professor Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict.
The research suggests that roughly 1 percent of galaxy clusters look atypical and can be easily misidentified.
Reading code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
Research suggests that aging affects a brain circuit critical for learning and decision-making.
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
A specialized MRI sensor reveals the neurotransmitter’s influence on neural activity throughout the brain.
Using magnetic nanoparticles, scientists stimulate the adrenal gland in rodents to control release of hormones linked to stress.
Is the way we hear music biological or cultural?
If all forms of energy experience gravitation, then why does dark energy make the expansion accelerate instead of slow down? Of all the revolutionary discoveries that we’ve made about the Universe, […]