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A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing. Speaking multiple languages could slow down ...

Remember learning to drive? Viewing films, observing drivers, and then logging hours driving to get practice and feedback.

But then the Supreme Court sort of went quiet for a while. The next truly major Second Amendment case did not arrive until ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

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Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien species, spearheaded by the late Carl Sagan, among others. But what are the ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

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Quiq reports on key questions surrounding AI, covering its capabilities, risks, ethical challenges, and future implications ...

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In 1984, inside a modest Soviet computer lab, Alexey Pajitnov created a simple puzzle to test a new computer. He had no idea ...