anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a chatbot is more humanlike and aware than it actually is, like believing it's ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Get a simple explanation of Bayes’ Theorem that anyone can understand, even with no advanced math background. This video breaks the idea down using clear examples and intuitive reasoning to show how ...

Senior author Shannon Farris (left) and first author Renesa Tarannum of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC reported new findings in the Society for Neuroscience journal eNeuro that shed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. federal government is currently in a shutdown because congress can't agree on how much money to spend moving forward. This is far from the first government shutdown, but they ...

Most organisms on Earth have the same basic genetic code, but it comes with some flaws. Scientists sought to work out those errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s ...

The first truly shocking upset loss of the 2025 college football season took place during Week 1's action on Saturday in the form of Florida State's physical, dominant win over No. 8 Alabama, 31-17.

Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Nick Castellanos is making it clear that he does not approve of being taken out of games for defensive purposes. On Friday night, in the Phillies' 2-1 win over the ...

Artificial intelligence startup OpenEvidence says its AI model has scored a perfect 100% on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), raising the bar on the proficiency of AI models to ...