We found no strong automatic tendency to see AI or human art as inherently better or worse. This finding tells us that people don’t yet have a knee-jerk reaction or deeply held opinion about AI as ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

For five decades, Americans listened to broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff tell them the news. For the past several years, Woodruff has been listening as Americans tell her what they think it will ...

Exposure to war news will create more fissures in our political landscape. We get conservatives with stronger conservative ...

Researchers test two ways to reverse engineer the LLM rankings of Claude 4, GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, and Grok-3. Researchers ...

The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new ...

In the paper, If You Had One Shot: Scale and Herding in Innovation Experiments, the researchers found that when firms can only run one experiment, this leads to insufficient diversity at the market ...

Researchers at the University of Tuebingen, working with an international team, have developed an artificial intelligence that designs entirely new, sometimes unusual, experiments in quantum physics ...

People believe that a situation is zero-sum when one person's success entails that other people are less well-off. New ...

The Tri-Cities national laboratory has been assigned research projects under the initiative after losing hundreds of workers in the last fiscal year.