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One of the biggest questions in physics asks whether space-time is classical or quantum in nature. From slow neutrinos to quantum foam, these experiments are hoping to finally answer it

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Researchers have statistically identified a novel measure, the "d factor", which could indicate a person's general propensity towards distraction and its potential connection to ADHD. By analyzing over 1,000 participants...

Six AI tools, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, were exploited to write code capable of damaging commercial databases - although OpenAI appears to have now fixed the vulnerability

Researchers discovered how sleep deprivation can exacerbate pain. Their study demonstrates that a neurotransmitter, N-arachidonoyl dopamine (NADA), decreases in a brain region called the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) ...

Social exclusion, an experience that can pose threats to an individual's status and dominance, can lead to various behavioral responses potentially mediated by changes in testosterone levels. This study found that those ...

Researchers revealed, through neuroimaging, how cocaine addiction modifies the brain's reward evaluation system, impacting adaptive behavior. This modification explains the perplexing addictive behavior seen in users--pe...

The scale of quantum computers is growing quickly. In 2022, IBM took the top spot with its 433-qubit Osprey chip. Yesterday, Atom Computing announced they’ve one-upped IBM with a 1,180-qubit neutral atom quantum comput...

Researchers advanced the capabilities of neural networks to make compositional generalizations, similar to how humans grasp and expand on new concepts. This new technique, named Meta-learning for Compositionality (MLC), ...

Different measures of distractibility could be combined into a single "d score" to assess if someone may have ADHD

Researchers studied the effects of THC, marijuana's main psychoactive compound, on adolescent mouse brains. The study found THC-induced structural changes in microglia, specialized brain immune cells, possibly aggravatin...

Very few non-human animals have passed the mirror self-recognition test, but roosters have now succeeded at a modified version, which may mean they can understand that a reflection represents their own body

Smart glasses that play a specific noise when an object comes into their field of view, such as the sound of a page turning to represent a book, enable people who are blind to locate that item

All the weather models forecasted that Otis would make landfall as a tropical storm but instead it intensified into a Category 5 hurricane

A novel approach combines an online psychiatric assessment with a blood test to diagnose bipolar disorder, a condition often misdiagnosed as major depressive disorder. This blood test, alongside the digital assessment, c...

This shot, showing an unexpected victor in the clash between a great white shark and some Cape fur seals, is taken from Planet Earth III: Our world at the dawn of a new age, a new book accompanying the BBC series

Online celebrity culture, such as the saga of movie stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, is the ultimate counterprogramming in a time of conflict, says Annalee Newitz

From sexism's "benefits" to mothers' role in creating culture, Cat Bohannon rethinks the role of women in Eve: How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution

Let's lose the old stereotypes about engineering, because attracting new talent is crucial to meeting net-zero goals, says Dr Hayaatun Sillem

We all know about black holes - we've even seen a picture of one. But white holes? In his latest book, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli weaves a poetic spell to persuade us that these mysterious entities are real

Modern physics can explain everything from the spin of the tiniest particle to the behavior of entire galaxy clusters. But it can't explain life. There's simply no formula to explain the difference between a living lump ...

Scientists have demonstrated that an AI system called a neural network can be trained to show "systematic compositionality," a key part of human intellect.