According to the reports by WHO, more than 1 million people die every year due to lack of access to safe water, and every 2 minutes a child dies from a water or sanitation-related disease. That means ...

Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

When it’s time to have a difficult conversation with a dying patient about whether to insert a feeding tube, Dr. Jonathan ...

Almost all the rise in US polarisation over political issues since the late 1980s occurred from 2008 onwards, a new study ...

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through ...

AI can write songs, but still has a way to go before matching the creativity of tunes made by people, according to Carnegie ...

The political left and right are roughly equal in size, which sets the United States apart from most other countries.

Almost all the rise in US polarisation over political issues since the eighties occurred from 2008 onwards, a new study suggests. Far more Americans now adopt party and ideological labels in line with ...

As well as behavioural and technical issues, firms must also solve a variety of organisational problems to make AI work for them. Finding the right talent is an obvious issue. Failing to give the ...

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from outer space.