Exogenous attention is a rapid, involuntary mechanism that automatically reallocates processing resources toward salient stimuli. It enhances visual sensitivity in the vicinity of the salient stimulus ...

While ChatGPT, Gemini, and other generative AI products have their uses, some companies are going overboard. Beyond issues like hallucinations or AI screwing up — like deleting an entire code database ...

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It's an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what's called a "universal basic income" – a cash ...

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University If you drop a light object and a heavy object from a tower, which one reaches the ground first? As you may recall ...

MANY people have seen the way a Mimosa pudica plant, also called the touch-me-not, folds its leaves when they are touched. Fewer know that if you put one into a sealed chamber with a dose of ...

In a limited experiment, Google Search has begun showing like counts for articles in the Android app’s Discover feed for some. Update: Google is continuing to test this feature, with a slightly ...

A good friend of mine approached me and shared how frustrated she was with her husband spending so much time on his iPhone. She felt that he wasn't responsive to their 18-month-old’s bids for his ...

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous "blue eyes/brown eyes exercise." As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, ...

Who doesn’t like an unexpected gift, freebie or giveaway? I remember my own excitement at receiving vouchers for three *TOTALLY FREE* packs of sweets the other week. I was so excited, in fact, that I ...