Effective leadership of the development, deployment and monitoring of AI requires addressing risks to people and the environment. It also calls for ensuring equity – fair access to AI’s benefits and ...

AI "world models" are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind popular chatbots. The field is attracting top scientists like ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological ...

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When the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green with algae just days after a US$15 million renovation, the U.S.

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Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

A Ball State professor was part of a study linking tooth enamel to human evolution, including shifts tied to meat-eating and ...

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

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