Understanding the biological basis of consciousness or subjective experience is one of the most exciting and challenging projects of this century. For many reasons, an evolutionary approach to this ...

One day when I came in to the office, my air conditioning unit was making a weird rattling sound. At first, I was slightly annoyed, but then I chose to ignore it and get to work. In another 30 minutes ...

In today’s educational landscape, instruction has many forms. What’s known as traditional, face-to-face instruction is alive and well. But, like most fields, the field of education continuously ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and at Harvard Medical School have used mathematical modeling to show how individual cells appear capable of learning, a behavior once deemed ...

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have blessed our ...

When pandemic-related restrictions were lifted, most K-12 educators and students gladly returned to in-person learning. A 2022 analysis of the nation’s 100 largest districts suggested that most either ...