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The 2003 death of a trans woman from Bradenton has continued to stump investigators after more than 23 years, but new technology may be the key to answering what happened to her.

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Your brain could be gently coaxed into working on complex problems while you sleep, making you better able to tackle them the next day. Now, Karen Konkoly at Northwestern University in Illinois and ...

In the study, 299 undergraduate students between the ages of 18 and 33 were asked to solve a series of compound remote associates (CRA) problems, a standard test of creative problem-solving in which ...

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Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...