4+ hour, 21+ min ago  (336+ words) An art historian in Florence decided to see if AI could crack the mystery he'd just spent years solving'and it couldn't. Elon Danziger's finding was this: that Florence's Baptistery of San Giovanni was not a homegrown project but a papal-led…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (743+ words) American figure skater Andrew Torgashev was at an invitation-only camp organized by US Figure Skating not long ago, prepping for the Grand Prix season to work out any flaws in his performance. To the naked eye, Torgashev landed one of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (357+ words) A Paris court has halted the sale of one of the world's oldest known calculators, blocking its scheduled auction and export from France. The ebony-inlaid device, known as La Pascaline, was invented in 1642 by Blaise Pascal when the French mathematician…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (324+ words) Danica McKellar, best known as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years , left acting behind after the hit show ended in 1993. Now, speaking on the podcast Hey Dude ... The 90s Called! , McKellar, 50, tries to explain why, noting that the intense recognition she…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (664+ words) The words you use might not be entirely your own. New research reveals that artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping the way we communicate, not just online, but also in everyday speech. The study out of Florida State University, published on…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (345+ words) A new study suggests artificial intelligence could spot signs of consciousness in comatose patients'well before doctors do. Researchers at Stony Brook University developed a tool called SeeMe, which uses AI to analyze subtle facial twitches in patients with brain injuries,…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (721+ words) Humans still have the upper hand at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), but AI is closing in fast. At this year's event, held in Australia, five young math whizzes notched perfect scores, while generative AI models from Google and OpenAI…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (478+ words) Researchers looking into the subject of artificial intelligence have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of their colleagues are using it to help write their papers. The study in Science Advances estimates that 14% of the abstracts of biomedical research papers'one…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (276+ words) A new study suggests that your breathing might be as unique as your fingerprint. A two-year research project out of Israel's Weizmann Institute rigged 100 young adults with nasal airflow tubes throughout their daily routines. What emerged was a surprise: Each…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (375+ words) A strange thing is happening in the world of artificial intelligence: As the bots grow more powerful, they are generating more mistakes"hallucinations"than ever, reports the New York Times . And as the story by tech writers Cade Metz and…...