When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

It’s 1959. Ike is still all right. While serving in the U.S. Army, Elvis Presley takes up amphetamines and karate. Fashion-forward women are wearing capri pants while rebellious young greasers are ...

The term "generative AI music" is a bit of a misnomer, since AI doesn't actually generate any music. Instead, these programs "train" themselves by scraping information from all the actual, ...

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A cow in Austria uses a stick to scratch her body in a documented case of tool use. Credit: Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró et al. / CC BY 4.0 Researchers say a brown Swiss cow in Austria may be forcing ...

When her doctor died suddenly in August, Tammy MacDonald found herself among the roughly 17% of adults in America without a primary care physician. MacDonald wanted to find a new doctor right away.

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems. Self-service kiosks at the ...