Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.” After the age of 40, the average brain decreases 5 ...

Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

Scientists found that certain molecules made by gut bacteria travel to the liver and help control how the body uses energy. These molecules change depending on diet, genetics, and shifts in the ...

Freedom of speech is a foundational principle of healthy democracies and hence a primary target for aspiring authoritarians, who typically try to squash dissent. There is a point where the threat from ...

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...

During a recent workshop, a senior executive said to me, “None of us knows how people will learn in this new era.” Lynda Gratton is a professor of management practice at London Business School and the ...

Microsoft has released a new report showing what people used its AI assistant Copilot for in 2025. The analysis is based on 37.5 million de-identified conversations and shows that in addition to ...

Musa Kazim Azimli, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in history at the University of Virginia, tells the stories of spaces that no longer exist. Specializing in slavery in the Middle East, his research ...

Happy family of mother in business clothes and kids have fun playing soccer ball in the park. Mom and kids play soccer in the city under the sunset rays. I've spent over 16 years interviewing ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Other studies have painted a grimmer picture, suggesting that AI may impair ...