A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

When autonomy increases, so does the degree of diffused accountability. When we hear the overused business buzzword "we want to leave the human in the loop," we should consider how to address the ...

Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

Dear Algo! That’s it. Parents, kids, just give in. Talk to the algorithm. She knows what’s best. Larry Wilson is on the Southern California News Group editorial board. lwilson@scng.com.

Researchers at the University of Tuebingen, working with an international team, have developed an artificial intelligence that designs entirely new, sometimes unusual, experiments in quantum physics ...

The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules. New research shows activation of these modules overlaps.

It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content – whether it’s code, text or graphics – keeps pushing people ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...

February 24, 2026 • We’re going whale watching today. No, not orcas or great blues, but financial traders that place big bets on something called options. On today’s show, who are these option whales ...