Why prediction markets’ election picks are useful, even when they seem wrong

Kalshi published campaign-style updates on his odds, and Polymarket hosted multiple active markets on whether Pratt would ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
Medical Xpress

Researchers use statistics and math to understand how the brain works

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...
The Conversation

How AI English and human English differ – and how to decide when to use artificial language

Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always recognize it. When reading text generated by AI, people feel it ...
The Conversation

More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them ...
International Monetary Fund

StatGPT: AI for Official Statistics

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...
Harvard Business Review

How Gen Z Uses Gen AI—and Why It Worries Them

As go the young, so goes society. Young adults were early adopters of cell phones, social media, and the internet. Now all of these technologies are universal. So how are members of Gen Z using ...
EurekAlert!

Longer treatment with medications for opioid use disorder is associated with greater probability of survival

A new study of over 32,000 US Veterans has found that the longer people stay on medications for opioid use disorder (buprenorphine, methadone, or extended-release naltrexone), the greater the ...
Wired

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...
Health Affairs

Private Equity Acquisition Of Substance Use Treatment Centers Increases Probability Of Public Health Insurance Acceptance

Private equity (PE) firms have actively acquired substance use disorder treatment facilities in the past decade. Evidence on whether these acquisitions affect establishments’ operations is limited.
Nature

Estimating disorder probability based on polygenic prediction using the BPC approach

Polygenic Scores (PGSs) 1 are per-individual estimates of the total contribution of common genetic variants to a trait or disorder liability based on SNP effect sizes (betas) from Genome-Wide ...