A new study shows that artificial intelligence can deliver highly accurate answers even when they make no scientific sense.

A new peer-reviewed paper published in The Gerontologist  provides the most comprehensive scientific response to date addressing recent critiques of the so-called “blue zones,” regions of the world ...

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More than half of the world's population speaks more than one language—but there is no consistent method for defining ...

It's almost a given that when you eat a banana, you're left with a half that always turns mushy. But there's an old-school ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists are trained to be ...

Researchers have proposed a unifying mathematical framework that helps explain why many successful multimodal AI systems work ...