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People who interact with expressive robots that make mistakes react with suspicion rather than seeing the bots as malfunctioning machines.
A speech-language pathologist on how complex swallowing is – and how small changes from gravity can complicate the process.
Turns out, changing the way atoms and molecules are arranged in a substance can give it new and fascinating properties.
Researchers are finding ways to target the toxic proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s that were once considered ‘undruggable.’
Sometimes the best escape isn’t a weekend away. It’s the park just down the road.
Hackers have easier ways of getting information out of a computer, but side-channel vulnerabilities show that technology developers need to take a broad view of security.
The World Cup’s VAR controversies reveal a broader challenge for AI-assisted decision-making: deciding what AI should handle, what it should support and what should be left to human judgment.
Although Canada geese were not purposely reintroduced in urban areas, many have made cities their permanent homes.
If the US were to create a fund to harness AI and buffer the economy and workers from long-term harms AI could cause, it would not be the first country to do so.
Menopausal hormone therapy no longer has the highest-level warning label about the risk of breast cancer, opening a gray area on who would benefit most from treatment.
A standardized framework for regulating the safety and efficacy of AI in healthcare has yet to be established.
The gap between AI and a human adviser is narrowest for commonsense guidance.
Explosive diarrhea has been spreading across the US, and the parasite that causes the disease has already sickened thousands – and counting.
With social media communities and naturalist apps, birding is easier to get into than ever. A psychologist explains why it may also be just what the doctor ordered.
After screwworm cases were reported in Texas and New Mexico, Colorado is taking preventive measures against the pest.
Surviving in the wild is no small feat for animals, especially ones like Jimothy, with rare conditions And yet he persevered to viral celebration, thanks to an adaptable brain and a caring mother.
Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share their findings and collaborate with each other.
AI models that are open source allow developers and users to see and modify the underlying program code.
Calling an animal a ‘pest’ can sometimes cause more harm to people than the animal itself.
A new mission to save NASA’s Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.
By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.
A Commerce Department order requiring Anthropic to wall off its most advanced AI models from foreign nationals could be the government’s attempt to keep the best AI technology for itself.
In a survey of more than 600 employers, one theme kept coming up: Despite AI, soft skills and the ability to learn still set successful job candidates apart.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.