Just a week after an AI disproved an 80-year-old conjecture and astonished mathematicians, another conjecture that had stood for half a century has fallen, inspired by the same techniques, but this ...

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...

The work relative value unit model was designed to standardize how physician labor gets measured and paid. Decades later, the data suggests it has struggled to keep pace with the realities of modern ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

President Trump recently complained, "I get 93 percent bad publicity," and studies from the Media Research Center, where I work, have shown time and again that evening news coverage on the broadcast ...

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, said the number of banks included in 'Problem Bank List' of its Q4 2025 Quarterly Banking Profile increased by a net of three to 60. The report ...

Negative reinforcement is a frequently misused term that diminishes its value as a powerful tool for behavior change. You may be puzzled by the claim that negative reinforcement is actually a good ...

When most people think about schizophrenia, they think about hallucinations or delusions—voices that aren’t there or beliefs that don’t align with reality. These symptoms are often grouped under the ...