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Nandkumar M. Kamat 14, Valentine’s Day, often arrives wrapped in poetry, music, and symbolism; yet, the experience it celebrates—falling in love—is also one of the most intensively ...

For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new ...

To answer that, we need to distinguish between cognitive tasks and institutional functions. AI systems in this future can replicate cognitive outputs (analysis, synthesis, prose, code) with increasing ...

Interpretation is the discipline through which molecular datasets reveal their significance. As the life sciences enter a new era defined by data richness and technological capacity, interpretive ...

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In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

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