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A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, memory, and executive function skills than their peers. These gains don't fade -- they grow over time, bucking a long ...

A major update to how obesity is defined could push U.S. obesity rates to nearly 70%, according to a large new study. The change comes from adding waist and body fat measurements to BMI, capturing people who were previously considered healthy. Many . ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there's no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious--and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, consciousness alone isn't the ethical tipping point ...

Scientists have discovered a clever way to turn carrot processing leftovers into a nutritious and surprisingly appealing protein. By growing edible fungi on carrot side streams, researchers produced fungal mycelium that can replace traditional plant ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans. These animals weren't dogs, but true wolves that ate the same marine food as the people living there and showed signs of ...

Researchers found that U.S. metal mines already contain large amounts of critical minerals that are mostly going unused. Recovering even a small fraction of these byproducts could sharply reduce dependence on imports for materials essential to clean ...

Stanford scientists have uncovered how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can very rarely trigger heart inflammation in young men -- and how that risk might be reduced. They found that the vaccines can spark a two-step immune reaction that floods the body with . ...

What we put on our plates may matter more for the climate than we realize. Researchers found that most people, especially in wealthy countries, are exceeding a "food emissions budget" needed to keep global warming below 2°C. Beef alone accounts for ...

The familiar fight between "mind as software" and "mind as biology" may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol-shuffling way we usually imagine. Instead, ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don't speak English as a first language, potentially shifting global centers ...