Parrots are famous for copying human voices, but do they actually understand the words they speak? Research suggests the ...

Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

A group of University of Minnesota researchers have just effectively created something like life. It’s an artificial cell named after a potato. “This is likely the most exciting project I’ve ever ...

But I found in Augustine an invitation into exploring what the true meaning of life could be. Read our latest issue or browse ...

A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant ...

Background Improvement science has supported the methodological foundations for the application of quality improvement (QI) ...

Noether discovered that for every continuous symmetry of a system, there is a conserved quantity—that is, a quantity that ...

Introduction Economic evidence on community health worker (CHW) programmes is crucial for scaling these initiatives. Although decision-analytic models (DAMs) are essential for projecting long-term ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking. That ...