Deep in a cave in southwestern Germany, a Stone Age artist carved a tiny mammoth from a piece of tusk. They then covered it ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...

Like islands scattered across a vast intergenic sea, the nearly 20,000 protein-coding genes within the human genome represent a mere 2 percent of its 3 billion base pairs. When, where, and to what ...

For centuries, humans have assumed that our thinking errors set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. From misjudging risks to seeing patterns that aren’t there, we like to imagine that our ...

“Illusions are fun, but they are also a gateway to perception,” says Hyeyoung Shin, assistant professor of neuroscience at Seoul National University. Shin is the first author of a new study in Nature ...

Nicola Asuni. VariantKey - A Reversible Numerical Representation of Human Genetic Variants., bioRxiv 473744; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/473744 Human genetic ...

Automated reasoning (AR) is a branch of artificial intelligence that applies various reasoning techniques to solve problems from mathematics and logic. AR engines use clever optimizations and ...

An eye-tracking study in Switzerland found that adults make 2.5 times more fixations (focusing their eyes on a single point) when reading short numbers compared to short words. For long numbers and ...