The Chinese money plant, commonly seen in homes and offices as a simple ornamental houseplant, is now drawing serious ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have ...

Scientists use machine learning and SPERRFY to decode the genetic wiring map that guides neural connections across the entire ...

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 ...

Many common mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety, are associated with a tendency to internalize problems ...

Ellie Matthews, a 20-something HR manager, had been struggling with bloating and digestive issues when she spoke to me for my book “Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked our Health.” Her primary ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

A new study published today 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 ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...