New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

The authors used a Bayesian modeling framework to fit behavior and serotonin neuron activity to reward history across multiple timescales. A key goal was to distinguish value coding from other ...

Productivity analyses differ on how well AI can automate work, with smaller companies saying cutting head count doesn’t tell ...

About half of women over 40 have dense breasts. The denser the breast tissue, the more difficult it is to spot cancer on a standard mammogram. Having dense breast tissue can make it harder to detect ...

Brien Posey explains that a large language model’s performance depends more on architecture, training, and data quality than ...

In the space of three months last year, mpox cases in Australia surged from a very low base. More than 600 of 2024's total 1,409 recorded cases were confirmed during July to September, bringing mpox ...

The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...

For centuries, humans have assumed that our thinking errors set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. From misjudging ...

A considerable and unanticipated plasticity of the human genome, manifested as inter-individual copy number variation, has been discovered. These structural changes constitute a major source of ...

Each Fund has a limited operating history, and while each Fund's objective is to provide current income, there is no guarantee the Fund will make a distribution. Distributions are likely to vary ...

Indonesia has trained up to 20,000 troops to take on health and construction-related tasks during a planned peacekeeping operation in the war-torn enclave of Gaza, the defence minister said on Friday.