Table tennis players exhibit enhanced brain structure and function, with increased white matter integrity and improved cognitive performance, suggesting that the sport's demands can lead to significant neural and cognitive benefits.

Drinking coffee might wake you up even without the caffeine. Researchers found that habitual coffee drinkers responded similarly to both regular and decaf coffee, pointing to the influence of expectation and ritual on alertness and brain activity.

A new study finds preschoolers’ brains respond differently when hearing a story read aloud versus hearing it from a screen, highlighting how live reading engages social brain networks more strongly than solitary screen time.

A new study has found that coffee consumption is heritable, with specific genes influencing how much coffee people drink and its association with other substance use behaviors.

An international study of over 15,000 adults across 16 countries found that dream recall and nightmares became more common during the pandemic, with sleep duration, age, and gender all playing a role in how often people experienced them.

Scientists found that the human brain emits faint light that passes through the skull and changes during different mental states, suggesting it might be possible to monitor brain activity using light instead of electricity or magnetism.

A new study has found that a 400 mg caffeine dose disrupts sleep up to 12 hours before bedtime, yet many people fail to notice these disruptions, especially when consumed earlier in the day.

Roman rule in southern Germany fostered lasting regional advantages, according to new research, which is reflected in modern-day personality traits, better health, and higher well-being.

Bad news bias shatters people's hope for their collective future. Balanced news coverage is needed to inform people of the nation’s conditions and facilitate a hopeful outlook.

Micromanagement work cultures can create helicopter bosses.

Using GLP-1s or considering it? New global research reveals social and psychological consequences for everyday lives.

While children and adults alike can solve problems by finding novel uses for everyday objects, AI systems often lack the ability to view tools in a new way, researchers explain in this study.

MGIE, which stands for MLLM-Guided Image Editing, is a model developed by Apple and the University of California, Santa Barbara, that leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to enable image editing based on natural language instructions.

/PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 75% of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises—meaning that almost 3 out of 4 restaurant orders are taken to go. New data from...

Unfortunately, it'd cost about $175 trillion.

Beneath Kodak’s labs in Rochester, New York, a nuclear reactor advanced science for decades. The truth about the device is stranger—and tamer—than you may expect.

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found remarkable differences.

A new console-PC hybrid Steam Machine is coming in 2026, alongside the new Steam Frame VR headset and Steam Controller, Valve announced.

Valve's most recent update to Counter-Strike pushed its cosmetics economy in freefall, with billions evaporating overnight.

It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous

What's that hat the Smurfs wear? And what's it covering up? Do Smurfs have luxurious locks of hair? Are they bald? And, most crucial of all, is it the wrong hat?!?

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Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.

These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.

Robot Dog Bittle by Petoi is a lifelike robotic dog for coding, STEM learning, and robotics education. Programmable, open-source, and ideal for students and engineers.

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

Far more than a riveting inside story of the creation of VISA—now the largest commercial enterprise on earth—One from Many is an absorbing story of personal and institutional transformation....

Microsoft knows Office is slow to load. The solution is, apparently, to make Windows load slower.

TikTok is reportedly ditching more of its human moderators to focus on AI-powered moderation instead.