AI That Can Learn Cause-and-Effect: These Neural Networks Know What They’re Doing
A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training. Neural networks can learn to solve all…
A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training. Neural networks can learn to solve all…
Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of fundamental physics….
Study finds collisions that stalled oxygen growth on the planet are more common than thought. Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, a time known…
The sharpest knives available are made of either steel or ceramic, both of which are man-made materials that must be forged in furnaces under extreme…
C. difficile is usually thought of as a hospital-associated infection. However, new research finds 26% of samples from both healthcare and non-healthcare sites tested positive…
When I wake at 3 am or so, I’m prone to picking on myself. And I know I’m not the only one who does this….
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Now, a new study has brought us closer to understanding some of its evolution….
A balanced intake of antioxidants could prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Research has shown that an oxidation-antioxidant imbalance in the blood is an early…
Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the young as a herd, scientists say. To borrow a line…
A drug used to treat agitation in people with dementia is no more effective than a placebo, and might even increase mortality, according to a…
Ivermectin is an over 30-year-old wonder drug that treats life- and sight-threatening parasitic infections. Its lasting influence on global health has been so profound that…
Such planetary smashups are likely common in young solar systems, but they haven’t been directly observed. Young planetary systems generally experience extreme growing pains, as…
Researchers report that intense ivory poaching during the Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992) resulted in the rapid evolution of tusklessness in female African elephants amid a…
Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At NASA, astrobiologists like Lindsay Hays are trying to…
A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by “la Caixa” Foundation, provides robust evidence that COVID-19 is…
“Raptor-like” dinosaur discovered in an Australian mine, actually uncovered as a timid vegetarian. 50-year-old findings of the Triassic period’s “largest meat-eating dinosaur” reanalyzed as the…
New methods of detecting ultra-low frequency gravitational waves can be combined with other, less sensitive measurements to deliver fresh insights into the early development of…
Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries beforehand, although exactly when has remained unclear. Here, an international…