Janie Zhang is studying computer science and psychology, exploring the overlap between human behavior and artificial ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

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In my last post 1 I asked what happens if API tokens become a universal monetary standard — a computational lingua franca that makes AI labor legible, tradeable, and accountable across systems that ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

The figure skating team event opens competition at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, bringing together 10 countries in a fast-paced format that awards the first skating medal of the Games.

In an article published in Behavior Research Methods, a team of researchers from The University of Osaka studied the "impressions" LLMs form of words along several different dimensions and compared ...

Abstract: The increasing demand for contactless and intuitive Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has highlighted the limitations of traditional input devices that rely on physical surfaces. To address ...

Computer Science majors Owen McGann ’26 and Yousef Sengal ’27 spent last summer conducting research on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and how the language used to introduce robots can shape human ...

Abstract: In this study, we explore the effects of co-speech gesture generation on user experience in 3D digital human interaction by testing two key hypotheses. The first hypothesis posits that ...

Data suggests autonomous vehicles are far safer than human drivers. For instance, of 25 of Waymo’s most serious crashes, 17 involved a human driver rear-ending a robotaxi. This indicates that people ...