There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend ...

This year is the halfway point in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A global pandemic, conflicts, disasters and other crises have set back progress towards the ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...

The human brain isn’t a blank slate waiting to be written by experience, according to research that challenges the ...

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

We study how the spatial distribution of income and commuting patterns within cities vary across the development spectrum, drawing on new granular data from 50,000 neighborhoods in 121 cities across ...

There are many reasons why professionals pause in their development. They may be satisfied with their position/skills, bored, ...

A new study identifies how LLMs develop social reasoning capabilities and form theory of mind (ToM), an important discovery ...

The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.

The capacity to think in private has been fundamental to human development. As AI systems comprehensively capture children's ...

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

Let’s rewind the clock back…oh, I don’t know, let’s say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...