When you ask your favorite AI model for a movie recommendation, an email draft, or home decor ideas, the end result could be likened to hearing the polished performance of a massive digital…

Causal inference studies suggest minimal impacts of mothers’ work on development from early childhood to adolescence

Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review, this is an overview of all the changes to NIH's peer review over the last 18 months.

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The principles organizing cellular diversity and connectivity in primate brains remain elusive. By integrating spatial transcriptomics, magnetic resonance imaging, and retrograde labeling in marmosets...

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An NIH leadership vacuum has persisted for months, with 15 of the 27 institutes being led by acting directors.

Exploring why Anthropic’s AI, Claude, displays something like emotion could ultimately help us better understand the function that emotions serve in humans.

Imagine you are building a robot to clean your room. The robot needs to overcome a number of challenges in order to complete its tasks, including: perceiving things from changing perspectives,…

We quantitatively document a sperm whale birth event, revealing collective support behaviors across kinship lines. Using high-resolution drone footage, computer vision, and multiscale network analysis...

Scavengers generally rely on patchily distributed, unpredictable carrion. A long-standing hypothesis suggests scavenging ravens reliably locate such food by directly following large carnivores to…

Specialized hair cells pick electric currents induced by magnetism

A physicist and professional dancer takes home the grand prize, and Science awards its first trophy for an AI-assisted dance concept

Fast-moving cracks in tape’s adhesive layer produce shock waves that make the stuff sing as it unrolls

It is a well-known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent and necessary is inversely proportional to the number of people in that group. We enshrine and...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission NOT-OD-26-064. NIH