Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot and SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary discuss Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and their role in AI applications, the ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...

Fyodor D. Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, and director of therapeutic research and development at the Innovative ...

In April 1986, the Chernobyl disaster led to a thriving ecosystem of animals, including feral dogs. A 2023 study revealed distinct genetic differences in Chernobyl's dogs, hinting at possible ...