My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...

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There are many different kinds of reasoning. Some reasoning is by simple association. If you see very dark clouds coming your way, accompanied by lightning and thunder, you will probably conclude that ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

It's not news to anyone that there are concerns about AI’s rising energy bill. But a new analysis shows the latest reasoning models are substantially more energy intensive than previous generations, ...

In late 2021, as the housing market overheated and the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate hovered near zero, Tony Yang found an unconventional way to fund his down payment. He logged into his ...

The quality of AI-generated artifacts and answers improves when certificates are demanded, even if the evidence provided by ...

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...

For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. ‍Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too narrowly — ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into everyday art.