The rush to put out autonomous agents without thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with technology industry norms. The sociologist Diane Vaughan refers to this as the ...

Are AGENTS.md files actually helping your AI coding agents, or are they making them stupider? We dive into new research from ETH Zurich, real-world experiments, and security risks to find the truth ...

Stimulating two brain areas, nudging them to collectively fire in the same way, increases a person's ability to behave altruistically, according to a study published in the PLOS Biology by Jie Hu from ...

Xleak is a simple terminal tool that lets you open and inspect Excel files instantly, without ever leaving your command line.

LIBRARIES UPDATE: Due to the semester break, UW Libraries will have reduced hours. Coe Library will close at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, will be closed on Saturday, 2/14, and will have reduced hours on ...

You have a favorite novelist and you want to be notified whenever SLU Libraries get a book written by him or her. You're doing a long-term project on a topic and you want to be notified when SLU ...

Maturity means that a person, animal, or plant has reached their final stage of growth. Someone who hasn’t reached that stage is immature. That’s easy to understand when it comes to physical ...

How do genes and the environment come together to shape animal behavior? Both play important roles. Genes capture the evolutionary responses of prior populations to selection on behavior.

A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...

This book will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded awareness. The book will document a decade of research showing that even successful people fail to notice the ...