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Scientists Reconstructed Videos Straight From a Mouse’s Brain and Learned Something About Cognition in the Process
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (512+ words) New research turns neural signals into movies and hints at how brains edit sight. Neuroscientists have successfully reconstructed moving images directly from the brain activity of mice, marking a major shift from broad brain scans to tracking thousands of individual…...
New Brain Scans Show Why Some Kids Struggle with Math, And What Parents and Teachers Can Do About It
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (947+ words) Brain scans reveal math struggles stem from how kids handle mistakes and process number symbols. When a second-grader consistently gives the wrong answer on a basic math quiz, educators usually assume the student just isn't good with numbers. The standard…...
World's Biggest Creativity Experiment Shows AI Is Better at Brainstorming Than Most People
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (927+ words) Machine learning crushes the average person at word association, but true poets are safe " for now. If you've ever stared at a blinking cursor and felt the cold sweat of writer's block, you might be tempted to ask a chatbot…...
Scientists Use AI to Create First-ever Functional Synthetic Life, Because What Could Go Wrong?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (530+ words) It's an exciting and scary technology. While the world was busy arguing over AI-generated art and essays, a team at the Arc Institute and Stanford University was training AI on a much more complex language: the code of life itself....
Meet Stephen Quake: The Scientist Who Treats Biology like Physics and Turned Life Into Data
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1784+ words) Home " Features " Pieces Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights. Experiments typically yield averages, not clear-cut figures. To a physicist, it can sometimes feel less like…...
Our Favorite Science Stories That Stuck With Us From 2025
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1261+ words) Home " Features " Pieces The list below is a mix of the pieces we loved most and the ones you couldn't stop reading. Spinal cord injuries have traditionally belonged to the bleak category of "irreversible" and permanent facts of life. Once…...
Mathematicians Just Discovered Two New Types of Infinity, and They May Break the Rules of Math
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (704+ words) Home " Science " Mathematics How two new strange infinities challenge mathematical order. Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child's riddle meant to twist your brain into knots. But for mathematicians, it's a serious (and…...
AI Just Helped Scientists Simulate Every Star in the Milky Way—All 100 Billion of Them
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (665+ words) For the first time, astrophysicists modeled our galaxy star by star100 times faster than ever before. Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single stareach orbit, flare, and explosionwithout cutting corners. Now,…...
Google's AlphaProof Can Work on Mathematical Proofs Once Thought Beyond Machines
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (629+ words) Home " Science " Mathematics Google's AlphaProof is capable of solving complex mathematics but it's greatest feature may actually be finding errors. In 2024, an AI entered the fray of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Google's AlphaProof is part of the same Alpha…...
AI Turns Brain Scans Into Full Sentences and It’s Eerie To Say The Least
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (657+ words) AI can now turn brain scans into text. It's not mind reading but it's pretty close. In a dark MRI scanner outside Tokyo, a volunteer watches a video of someone hurling themselves off a waterfall. Nearby, a computer digests the…...