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A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuitio...

The robot removed a pig's gallbladder with standard surgical tools in an ordinary operating room. The post In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeons Control appeared first on SingularityHub...

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago

Researchers have discovered that the retina uses an unexpected communication network that lets separate visual pathways cooperate instead of working alone. A newly identified "commander" cell appears to coordinat...

Exercise doesn't just make the heart stronger. It also rewires the nerves that regulate it, a discovery that could pave the way for more personalized treatments for common heart conditions such as arrhythmias and ang...

Archaeologists were surprised to find evidence of shackles in a pre-Roman settlement in France.

A new study demonstrates that rising testosterone levels are a primary predictor of anxiety and depression symptoms in preteens aged 10 to 12.

Researchers launched three open-source AI tools, AI Literature and Data Synthesis, Dark Data Analyzer, and Reviewer Three, to combat the 99% failure rate of Alzheimer's clinical trials.

Infants utilize evolutionarily conserved spatial cues to differentiate target voices from background noise.

Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids - now a sugar found in raspberries has been spotted in a cosmic cloud nearly 27 light years away

Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly. But were discovering that heat therapies like sauna, when used in the right way, have surprisingly wide-reaching benefits for health

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: "silly sprinklers," whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways. While seemingly frivolous in their construction, a team of mathematicians has used th...

Erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, was spotted in a gas and dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way.

CANISIUS is the official name of the new spin-echo neutron interferometer developed at Atominstitut, TU Wien. It enables precise control of neutron waves, something that was previously impossible.

Two types of jet stream patterns seem to be causing persistent heat domes over Europe, with big questions for the future

Researchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual atoms in the process. They used X-ray flashes from the European XFEL to show that different ato...

Playing a mental speed-training game seems to help the brain clear a protein linked to Alzheimers disease in men, but may work in women through different mechanisms

An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version is now being tested on more patients

A material made from yttrium, barium and copper oxide (better known as YBCO) has intrigued scientists since its discovery in 1987, largely because it retains its superconductive properties at a higher-than-normal tempera...

Not every World Cup goal is a classic. Sometimes a half-hearted shot goes in as a result of little more than a goalkeeper's error. And on those occasions, goalies may be inclined to find an excuse.

This bronze helmet has been decorated with ancient deities from a civilization that flourished before the Persian Empire took over the area that is now Iran.

Sleeping about an hour and 20 minutes less each night for six weeks caused participants to gain weight and spend more time inactive. Researchers found that even mild, realistic sleep loss, similar to what many adults exp...