1+ hour, 8+ min ago   (218+ words) If I told you the shapes below had names – one is called 'Bouba', the other 'Kiki' – which would you think is which? The shapes used in the 'bouba/kiki' experiments....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (562+ words) Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (738+ words) The preprint website arXiv has announced that researchers who have put their names to papers that included errors clearly generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will face a year-long ban and ongoing restrictions. The move is a response to a growing…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (584+ words) Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, structured, and geometrical in their thinking some 60,000 years ago, according to some intricately engraved ostrich eggshells found across southern Africa. The surviving fragments from these decorated shells, first described in 2010, are not randomly scribbled, like…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (677+ words) Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, but color doesn't, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US report in a new study, suggesting perception of color attributes is intrinsic. Despite differences in how we label colors…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (697+ words) As Pi Day rolls around for another year, researchers at StorageReview, a leading publication in enterprise IT, have a fitting number to celebrate: A world-record calculation of the mathematical constant π (pi) to a mind-boggling but extremely satisfying 314 trillion digits....

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (612+ words) In an eerie new study, scientists have analyzed the brain activity of mice and used it to reconstruct videos of what the mice had seen. The team, led by researchers at University College London (UCL), measured which individual neurons were…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (644+ words) Physicists in the US say they have created a simulation that, for the first time, demonstrates "ideal glass" is possible, resolving a decades-old paradox. In some ways, the kind of glass you drink iced water from has more in common…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (765+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. In 2023, an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn't actually painted by Raphael. The face in…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (771+ words) Using a powerful AI tool, astronomers have combed through vast troves of data from NASA's Hubble and found over 1,300 cosmic anomalies, more than 800 of which are new to science. The new research by David O'Ryan and Pablo Gomez from ESA…...