The findings of the Sweet Tooth Trial can be liberating. They suggest that we don't need to fear sweet food as a substance that will hijack our brains. If eating sugar doesn't inherently make you ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is changing how it assesses proposed regulations by dropping the monetary value of health benefits from its cost-benefit analyses. Read from CU expert Jenni ...

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Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate cluttered spaces, and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he will direct the U.S. Department of Justice to reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug. Here’s a look at what that would mean for people ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with the participants in the Conference “Artificial Intelligence and Care of Our Common Home” in the Vatican on Dec. 5, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen As Artificial ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...

Amazon Web Services has announced a new class of AI systems," frontier agents," that can work autonomously for hours, even days, without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious ...