There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what ...

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to ...

Species classification and distribution mapping have traditionally relied on isolated data sources such as image recognition ...

A Tesla executive has announced that the automaker plans to update its Model S and Model X vehicle programs later this year. In 2021, Tesla introduced updated versions of the Model S and Model X ...

Care, encouragement and support are given to someone or something while growing, and studies seem to show that nurture is more important than nature in shaping a child’s character. Nature is a ...

Scientists today released what they say is the biggest-ever artificial-intelligence (AI) model for biology. The model — which was trained on 128,000 genomes spanning the tree of life ...

Two of the standouts right now are OpenAI’s o3 mini model and Grok3, the new version of the Xai chatbot that has its own reasoning capabilities and new functionality built in. We can see graphs ...

Microsoft Research's new World and Human Action Model (WHAM), revealed today in a paper published in the journal Nature, shows how quickly those models have advanced in a short time. But it also ...

They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on the leftovers of other animals. With their long necks ...