Scientists have discovered how damage to the myelin sheath – the insulating layer around nerve fibres – affects brain activity during sleep.

Open-source OCR from Baidu eliminates the GPU memory wall that limits long-document parsing. Unlimited OCR uses a constant KV ...

AI chatbots are fast becoming a way people find news. But the systems are only as reliable as their sources, and are prone to misinformation and manipulation. Meanwhile, the rise of AI threatens the ...

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BrightEdge research comparing citations in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews suggests that AI search engines are doing more than retrieving information. They are assigning different roles to the same ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Lightwell is a huge effort to safeguard open-source software. IBM and Red Hat are investing in this massive security initiative. We don't yet know how this subscription-based service will work. AI is ...

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