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Generating funny captions seemed unlikely, so Hessel and his collaborators designed a benchmark challenging models to match a ...

For patients with inflammatory bowel disease, antibiotics can be a double-edged sword. The broad-spectrum drugs often ...

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From viral videos to debates over new products, ideas move faster than ever in today’s digital age. Mehmet Aktas, an ...

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Aging of the brain is characterized by deleterious processes at various levels including cellular/molecular and ...

The human brain segments continuous experience into discrete events, with theoretical accounts proposing two distinct mechanisms: creating boundaries at points of high p ...

Dietram Scheufele says presenting facts in terms that don’t feed in to biases will bring better public policy.

Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying associative threat learning is essential for advancing behavioral models of threat and adaptation. We investigated distinct activation patterns across ...

Soon, hundreds of hot air balloons will fill the Albuquerque sky as part of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, but what goes into making a balloon fly? The answer is rooted in science. Hot ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...