Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 4, January 2025. SignificanceHumans can plan efficiently in incredibly complex situations. Existing work has looked at naive participants in simple tasks, which might not be representative of how experts plan in the real world. Here, we study the real-world planning …
Why this 19-year-old trans woman says it’s clear that Trump wants people like her dead
President Donald Trump signed yet another executive order targeting the rights of trans people in the U.S., this time focusing on banning gender-affirming care to people younger than 19…
RFK Jr Nomination to Lead HHS Advances
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s quest to head the nation’s largest healthcare agency cleared a major hurdle Tuesday, as the Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines to advance his nomination. Despite intense debate about the viability of Kennedy’s nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS…
Can AI match the human brain? | Surya Ganguli
AI is evolving into a mysterious new form of intelligence — powerful yet flawed, capable of remarkable feats but still far from human-like reasoning and efficiency. To truly understand it and unlock its potential, we need a new science of intelligence that combines neuroscience, AI and physics…
Climate change is overhauling marine nutrient cycles
Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. Researchers report evidence that marine nutrient cycles — essential for sustaining ocean ecosystems — are changing in unexpected ways as the planet continues to warm…
Hitachi Ventures raises $400M fund to invest in everything from fusion to AI
The size of the new fund is a vote of confidence in a range of deep tech verticals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…
Trump to Sign Executive Order Banning Trans Athletes From Women’s and Girls’ Sports
The order will involve how Trump’s administration will interpret Title IX and marks another aggressive shift in the way the federal government deals with transgender people and their rights…
ACLU sues University of Michigan over campus bans for pro-Palestinian protesters
The suit accuses the school of violating plaintiffs’ free speech rights and argues that it “abused its authority to ban people from public property.”
Trump to pull US from UN Human Rights Council, stop relief agency funding: Report
US President Donald Trump is anticipated to sign an executive order on Tuesday, formally withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and prohibiting future funding for the UN relief agency UNRWA, Politico reported, citing an officia…