Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

A yearlong study of more than 4,000 U.S. adults found that problematic pornography use tends to persist over time and is strongly associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression, suggesting a…

A new study reveals that political party affiliation is the most powerful driver of social polarization in the United States—surpassing race, religion, income, and education

Objectives Trait mindfulness is associated with many measures of individual well-being, but its relationship to prosocial behavior is less clear. Prior research found that a brief intervention…

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scaling properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood.

The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

More than 20 legal professionals have been busted in the past month alone.

Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scientific research, as they can quickly summarize complex scientific information in accessible terms. However, when summarizing scientific texts, LLMs may omit details that limit the scope of research conclusions, leading to generalizations of results broader than warranted by the original study.

Challenges in visual and spatial processing and a deficit in training data have revealed a surprising lack of timekeeping ability in AI systems

SPSP is excited to announce the release of a landmark publication that has served as the definitive reference in our field for decades!

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values

The discovery of life processing with UV-excited qubits supports a conjecture relative to the computing capacity of the universe.

People with higher autistic traits struggled to recognize emotions in human faces, but not in anime faces. However, this difficulty was fully explained by alexithymia.

There have been increasing calls for scientists to ‘get out of the labs and into the streets’ and become more involved in climate change advocacy and protest, including civil disobedience. A growing n...

: 'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'

A new study tested how AI agents performed in the workplace. The results show that AI isn't ready to do your job.

Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

By definition, behavioural and decision scientists study behaviour and decision — but they rarely define these concepts, which results in divergent interpretations across studies. Researchers should g...

A new systematic review examining over 2,500 studies has uncovered a troubling link between high social media use and psychiatric disorders that involve distortions of self-perception.

Liberals may struggle more than conservatives to empathize with political opponents, according to new psychological research.

Claude’s faulty “known entity” neurons sometime override its “don’t answer” circuitry.

The Arc Prize Foundation has a new test for AGI that leading AI models from Anthropic, Google, and DeepSeek score poorly on.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that doing just one new thing each day can significantly improve mood, memory and overall well-being—a finding that could be particularly beneficial...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models like GPT-4, has shown impressive performance on reasoning tasks. But does AI truly understand abstract concepts, or is it just mimickin...

Unlike artificial language models, which process long texts as a whole, the human brain creates a "summary" while reading, helping it understand what comes next.

Dietrich College faculty tested a spatial arrangement task designed to help researchers understand how connections are formed in the brain while children are learning to understand the world.

Over the past decades, computer scientists have created increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, some of which can perform similarly to humans on specific tasks. The extent to which ...

‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.

OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator, isn't trustworthy or reliable enough to work without constant user supervision.

MIT Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu predicts that artificial intelligence will have a “nontrivial, but modest” effect on GDP in the next decade.

Top LLMs performed poorly on a high-level history test, a new paper has found.

People with aphantasia still generate brain activity when attempting to visualize, but that image may be getting lost in translation, a new study suggests.

A widely cited neuroscience study about the effectiveness of writing by hand over typing on learning is contested.

New findings indicate that competitive attitudes do not directly lead to in-game impulse purchases. Instead, the need for popularity fully mediates this relationship, while social competence moderates...

SemiAnalysis debunks the $6 million DeepSeek AI training cost myth, revealing a massive $1.3 billion investment in infrastructure and GPUs.

Men who intentionally distance themselves from traditional masculine ideals report poorer mental health, including less control over their lives and higher distress, anger, and depression.

Reports suggest OpenAI is about to make a huge announcement about AI agents. But its last big announcement is already looking slightly questionable.

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, genera...

AI-generated content floods literature with poor-quality publications, casts doubt on metrics, Science and Retraction Watch investigation finds

Early testing demonstrates results that could be disastrous for patients.

A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models

VR-based biofeedback effectively reduces depression and anxiety symptoms, matching conventional methods while enhancing user engagement through immersive environments, with potential for broader psych...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI development is only going to get harder — but didn't write-off "scaling" as a way of making progress.

Google unveiled on Wednesday its first-ever AI agent that can take actions on the web, a research prototype from the company's DeepMind division called

Rémi Lam is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.

A controlled study at a firm measured the effects of using AI to assist research, and saw increases in discoveries and patents.

AI companies want to give machines human-level intelligence, or AGI. The safest and best results will come when academic and industry scientists collaborate to guide its development.

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.