Why are Alaska's rivers turning orange?(scientificamerican.com)

91 points by maciekmm 2 years ago | 41 comments

Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep(scientificamerican.com)

211 points by sabrina_ramonov 2 years ago | 157 comments

Why Aren't We Losing Our Minds over the Plastic in Our Brains?(scientificamerican.com)

75 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 75 comments

Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain's Electric Fields(scientificamerican.com)

26 points by thomasjudge 1 year ago | 21 comments

The New Story of the Milky Way's Surprisingly Turbulent Past(scientificamerican.com)

17 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 1 comments

Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species Across the World(scientificamerican.com)

59 points by elorant 2 years ago | 57 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

U.S. science is in chaos(scientificamerican.com)

795 points by presspot 4 months ago | 942 comments

Scientific American feature by Adam Rogers examining how the compact between U.S. science and politics broke down, leaving American science in chaos.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Thinking hard makes the brain tired(economist.com)

463 points by gyre007 3 years ago | 312 comments

The Economist article explaining a neurometabolic account of why hard mental work makes the brain tired.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem(scientificamerican.com)

733 points by pr337h4m 6 months ago | 508 comments

Scientific American article about an amateur who used ChatGPT to prove a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture with a novel method.