When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement. It is drawing on a lifetime of bodily ...

While it might feel as though artificial intelligence is getting dangerously smart, there are still some basic concepts that AI doesn’t comprehend as well as humans do. Back in March, we reported that ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

A new wave of AI research is attempting to tackle one of psychology’s oldest questions: whether the human mind can be unified ...

Human-machine understanding (HMU) represents the next frontier in human-centric technology. By integrating insights from human behavioural data, cognitive science and psychology with artificial ...

What truly separates the way you think from how an AI like a large language model operates? Imagine trying to teach a child to recognize a dog. With just a few examples, they’d quickly grasp the ...

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A collection of over forty new studies about the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) has now been published in Nature. This work encompasses the efforts of more than 3,600 HCA members from over one hundred ...

The past few decades have seen the emergence of several diseases with drastic public health and economic consequences. Understanding routes of pathogen emergence and transmission is critical to ...

Understanding is crucial, if we are to prevent and treat these viruses effectively.

These animals have shown some incredible language skills. This ability has fascinated scientists and pet lovers for years. These animals are incredibly intelligent in their own unique ways. Here are ...