The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a ...

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...

The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a ...

Golden apple snails have eyes that are similar to humans’—and they can regenerate an amputated eye in just a month. Scientists uncovered a gene related to that process, laying the groundwork for more ...

LLM-assisted manuscripts exhibit more complexity of the written word but are lower in research quality, according to a Policy Article by Keigo Kusumegi, Paul Ginsparg, and colleagues that sought to ...

A new study provides answers based on a survey with more than 6,000 researchers from the Max Planck Society and the Fraunhofer Society. The highlights: Researchers actively use AI, including for core ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They’re a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have ...

Chimpanzees use a variant of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, new research suggests. When tasked with finding a tasty ...

While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK. Just as a proposal to return JavaFX to the Java ...

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