Complicated real-time strategy game situations, researchers say, can boost cognitive flexibility -- the ability to allocate the brain's resources under changing circumstances. Stephen Shankland worked ...

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Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? Contrary to expectations, a ...

This new AI acts like a digital scientist, turning messy data into simple rules that explain how the world really works.

A research team at Duke University has developed a new AI framework that can uncover simple, understandable rules that govern ...

Patients who are hospitalized have become more complex over time, according to new research. In an observational cohort study that included some 3.4 million nonelective hospital admissions and about 1 ...

A new study hints that age-related changes in our brains may explain why time feels like it's slipping away faster with every passing year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Reciprocity—I scratch your back; you scratch mine—has long been thought to be one of the hallmarks of friendship and other close relationships. In the world of nonhuman primates, the back-scratching ...

Hildy Ross receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Michal Perlman receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ...