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Animal psychologists have found that giraffes can mentally combine small sums of objects, but can't perform the subtractive equivalent.

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For centuries, humans have been wondering whether anyone lived on Venus. In the 1960s, telescopes delivered bad news: Modern-day Venus is thoroughly hostile to life, shrouded in thick acidic clouds ...

Imagine waiting for incoming passengers at the arrival gate at the airport. Your visual system can easily find faces and identify whether one of them is your friend's. As with other tasks that our ...

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

The Gaia mission has allowed researchers to understand the motions of stars like never before, even revealing possible interactions between our solar system and nearby stars. Planetary Science ...

It is no wonder that many engineers, managers, politicians, and private individuals engage in the envisioning and heralding ...

AI "world models" are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind ...