Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations: Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities Continue

Imprinted for violence? How biology and beliefs mold killers. Violent ideology can be imprinted or "downloaded" into the brain Continue

Your parents were right: Scratching an itchy rash really does make it worse. Now we know why, thanks to new research that uncovers how scratching aggravates inflammation and swelling Continue

Climate is changing the taste of beer so new hop varieties are being bred to be more resistant to the changing climate Continue

Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them. The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials. Continue

Inside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy”: Anesthesia-induced dreams, once considered random side effects, are being studied for their therapeutic potential Continue

CIA’s cautious (and dubious) embrace of COVID-19 lab leak theory is likely to spur more controversy, not end it Continue

The first public bathrooms in the United States appeared in the late 1800s. The history of the women’s bathrooms in the United States is a story of who does—and who doesn’t—get to belong in public life Continue

Not so forever perhaps! A team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS (forever chemicals), and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process Continue