Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the region, archaeologists have uncovered striking accumulations of mammoth bones, sometimes numbering in the thousands. These sites have puzzled researchers since the 19th century.
Ph. Benjavisa Ruangvaree Art Peter Coppola, University of Cambridge and Emmanuel A Stamatakis, University of Cambridge As we go through life, our brains run different processing modes. Some – the attention and sensory systems – result in very similar experiences of the world: what colour the sky is, how warm the day feels.
Ph. Sycophancy eats away at truth and trust. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston and Cody Turner, Bentley University In the summer of 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT 5 and removed its predecessor from the market. Many subscribers to the old model had become attached to its warm, enthusiastically agreeable tone
EF Stock/Shutterstock Roger Fernandez-Urbano, Universitat de Barcelona; Maria Rubio-Cabañez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Pablo Gracia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona As social media becomes a central part of young people’s lives, concerns are growing about its impact on their mental health. Yet public debates and measures tend to treat adolescents as one homogeneous
Ph. Information integrity and human checks are at the heart of the matter. Alan Warburton/betterimagesofai.org/© BBC, CC BY Nomalanga Mashinini, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa’s first attempt to establish a binding artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework came to an abrupt halt just 16 days after it was officially gazetted. On 10 April,
Non è una caratteristica. È un’architettura. Per anni la sensibilità è stata raccontata come tratto psicologico. Una disposizione emotiva. Una caratteristica della personalità. Ma le neuroscienze stanno dicendo qualcosa di più radicale. La sensibilità è una configurazione cerebrale. Non è solo “come reagisci”. È come il tuo cervello processa le informazioni. . Read
Ph. Are you sure you could tell if an AI chatbot were trying to sell you something? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Brian Jay Tang, University of Michigan and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance,
Ph. Male sylvan chameleon (Nadzikambia goodallae) from Mount Ribáuè, Mozambique. Krystal Tolley, CC BY Krystal Tolley, University of Johannesburg Tropical rainforests are known for their unique biodiversity, with species found nowhere else on Earth. But nearly 30% of tropical rainforest has been destroyed or has become seriously degraded since 1990. Many of these
Ph. Maciej Bledowski/Shutterstock.com Michelle Spear, University of Bristol My husband was recently describing something that happened on a past holiday. It wasn’t a significant event, but it sounded pleasant. I, however, had no recollection of what he was telling me. He couldn’t quite believe it. We know that “recollections may differ”, but how
Non sono solo ormoni. Sono due modi di vivere. Il cortisolo non è il nemico. L’ossitocina non è l’eroina. Sono due linguaggi biologici. Due posture esistenziali. Due modalità di sopravvivenza. Il cortisolo dice:“Preparati. Difenditi. Resisti.” L’ossitocina dice… . Read full article here Lingua originale: italiano. Autore: Amadeo Furlan Amadeo Furlan è membro del