Last month, 40 policy and labor organizations took their fight for a federal framework to protect workers from AI disruptions to Capitol Hill. Led by the Economic Policy Institute, the AFL-CIO Tech ...

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Insect-size drones are too small to lug around complex navigation systems. To help tiny autonomous fliers find their way home, researchers are taking their cues from honeybees with the Bee-Nav, ...

People given general anaesthesia fall into a coma-like state in which their memory and perception of pain are switched off. But new data reveal that the hippocampus — a deep brain structure crucial ...

In 1932, the inventor Alois Benjamin Saliger patented the Psycho-phone, a phonograph hooked up to a timer which could play recordings while a person was asleep. The audio could be heard at his dimly ...

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The missed promotion. The botched presentation. The project that went sideways despite our best efforts. We’ve all been there, stuck in what I call failure’s funk: that heavy mix of shame, fear, and ...

I used to teach high school science in Oklahoma, and one day I brought in a stalk from a cotton plant with bolls of cotton still attached. Students asked me why I glued cotton balls to a stick. My ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

Over the weekend, my wife and I joined friends for dinner. They had just returned from a vacation in Costa Rica, and we began talking about places we might travel together. “We should check out ...

Early in 2024, Péter Magyar, then an official in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s governing Fidesz party, publicly left Fidesz and assumed leadership of a minor party. He soon began giving ...