AI tools can parse through the massive archives of daily word puzzles to isolate specific throughlines that can serve as a guiding light when you're lost in the sea of scrambled letters. I used my New ...

Celeste Kidd's research challenges long-standing ideas from Jean Piaget about children's problem-solving abilities. Her ...

Data is the life-blood of physical AI. Collecting real-life data is expensive. Generative AI and diffusion to create ...

Many organizations struggle to unlock the full potential of their people, often hindered by outdated management models ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are exploring how brains learn, adapt, and improve, which could help us better understand and address neurological conditions.

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

In recent years, the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has shifted from quiet curiosity to relentless noise. Conference taglines, vendor solicitations, and slide decks all seem to begin with the ...