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If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn't exist, they'll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the ...

A new study locates the brain's symbolic engine for compositional generalization within the ventral premotor cortex.

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Making matters worse, today’s AI chatbots never admit they don’t know something, and they speak confidently and ...

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A computer chip that calculates with light instead of electrical current has passed a milestone that researchers have chased ...

Fads, influential academics with misguided ideas, and poor standards around what constitutes ‘evidence-based’ maths teaching ...

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Milestone Mojo release reveals a systems programming language with precise control over memory, strong types, GPU programming ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by mathematicians working for the tech firm Open AI using a single prompt from an AI chatbot. The company has not revealed all the precise details ...

Resources for observational comparative research have expanded enormously in recent years to include very large sources of ...