Michael Scurr, a volunteer for Britain’s National Archives, found a copy of the Declaration of Independence while going ...

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

Summary: Researchers argue that aphantasia, the complete inability to voluntarily form mental images, fundamentally shatters Hume’s theory and modern imagistic models of cognition. Individuals with ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...

A University of Washington team is helping scientists tell their own stories with a free tool that converts dense, ...

A UW team built an AI tool that helps users turn research papers into 45-second videos. A researcher uploads a paper to the tool, which uses Google Gemini to write a short script explaining the paper.

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 ...

Contributions on the topics listed in Section C of the Conference Announcement are welcome as oral or poster presentations. All submissions, apart from invited papers, must present original work, ...

In this paper we exploit 150 years of tariff policy in the US and abroad to estimate the short-run effects of tariff shocks on macro aggregates. A careful review of the major changes in US tariff ...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world. By Gina Kolata Scientists know it is happening, ...

On Monday, Nature released a paper from Google’s quantum computing team that provides a key demonstration of the potential of quantum error correction. Thanks to an ...