The University of Washington's Allen School is rethinking how to train the next generation of software engineers in an ...

Starting in the 2025-26 school year, Mann, West and Swigert middle schools will begin to plan out their incoming experiential ...

Toddlers as young as two can successfully learn new words even when a speaker’s mouth or eyes are covered, a study shows.

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Grenoble Alpes—Centre National de la ...

Think AI is making science easier to understand? Think again. A recent study finds large language models often overgeneralize ...

There is mounting evidence that even surprisingly simple animals, like invertebrates, have a level of consciousness - but not ...

“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought,” wrote Duke professor Orin Starn in a recent column titled “My Losing Battle Against AI Cheating,” citing a quote often attributed ...

This article was originally published with the title “Language Affects Kids’ Interest in Science” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 333 No. 1 (July/August 2025), p. 95 ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding across many branches of science. Between 2012 and 2022, the average proportion of scientific papers engaging with AI, across 20 fields ...

In computer science, language learning doesn’t really mean “learning” but more like “parsing.” We argued that the kind of statistics that they were talking about—frequencies of words, frequencies of ...