23+ hour, 45+ min ago   (977+ words) A new study tries to map why humans can experience beauty collectively By Deniz Vantansever, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, Xinyu Liang & The Conversation Justin Paget via Getty Images Stand in front of Turner’s Sun Rising Over Water (1825-30) and something odd tends to…...

5+ day, 45+ min ago   (829+ words) Dozens of temporary gas turbines are powering SpaceXAI’s expansion—and fights over permits and pollution By Austyn Gaffney edited by Eric Sullivan SpaceXAI’s Southaven power plant feeds one of its data centers across the Tennessee state line in Memphis. By…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1060+ words) How people interact with their inner and outer worlds may shape how they approach generative AI By Paul Jones & The Conversation US More than a century ago, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung made introversion and extraversion central to his theory…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (258+ words) Collectively intelligent bricks figure out if they’re in a boat, chair or guitar By Matthew Hutson edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier A future in which machines build themselves is “all about local self-organization where you don’t have one failure point,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (261+ words) The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses Minds can be found everywhere in nature, often in places we’d never think to look for them—even without a brain to house them, clusters of cells…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (895+ words) The fast-growing private-school network is handing much of instruction over to artificial intelligence. Researchers say the science is far from settled By Mary Randolph edited by Eric Sullivan When Carl Hendrick took his first ride in a Waymo, the self-driving…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (661+ words) Historian Jill Lepore explains what tech leaders miss in their favorite stories—and why the fight over AI data centers may be where the machine stops By Brianne Kane edited by Eric Sullivan The story always goes the same way:…...