Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

The news on the Colorado River and its two main reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, has been not great for a while now.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?Probably not, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the ...

A study of university students and recent graduates has revealed that writing on physical paper can lead to more brain activity when remembering the information an hour later. Researchers say that the ...

Objective As ‘critical illness’ and ‘critical care’ lack consensus definitions, this study aimed to explore how the concepts’ are used, describe their defining attributes, and propose potential ...

As AI systems become more capable, they may internally represent concepts outside the sphere of human knowledge. This work gives an end-to-end example of unearthing machine-unique knowledge in the ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has released a concept paper proposing a future reflection paper on the development of non-clinical proof-of-concept (POC) studies to support novel oncology ...

A draft concept paper released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) asks industry and government stakeholders how organizations should identify, authenticate and control ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a concept paper outlining topics that it wants to address in a reflection paper on non-clinical development of microbiome-based medicinal products ...

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is interested in AI agents. Specifically, according to an announcement, it is ...

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional materials. Materials scientists are therefore working to develop and improve new ...