Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and like many…
The federal Food and Drug Administration has approved a new Parkinson’s disease drug that was based on research by UVA Health scientists. The drug tavapadon, now branded Juvmo, was pioneered by University of Virginia School…
In this Policy Article, Alp Sungu and colleagues report on a large-scale randomized controlled trial evaluating the impacts of classroom phone restrictions on student outcomes in India. The findings show that restricting phone use can…
LAWRENCE Kansas — For decades, paleontologists have held up uintatheres as a prime illustration of sexual dimorphism, or the tendency for males and females of a species to be physically different. Notable for their large…
More than one in five adults in the US experience mental illness each year, according to data from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. And more than one in seven young people ages 6–17 experience…
Feeling secure in a relationship is not only about how people connect with their partners today. It may also depend on how confident they are that the relationship will continue into the future. Feelings of…
In high-latitude coastal areas specifically, Arctic Amplification means that temperatures are rising quicker than the global mean. This combination of rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns driven by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO; see info…
Basel, 7 October 2026 – An international research team has reported new results from the first clinical cohort of blind people treated with an optogenetic therapy for advanced retinitis pigmentosa. The approach combines gene therapy to…
Case-based learning, or CBL, is a teaching approach that asks students to apply what they know to realistic problems, weigh their options, and make decisions before the consequences are real. Today, the approach has evolved…
Europe must act now to strengthen maternal vaccination in pregnancy and ensure all women and babies can benefit from a new generation of vaccines to protect against serious infections. That is according to a new…