The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce recently updated its five-year-old guidance for school districts that want to teach handwriting and cursive. Some districts in Northeast Ohio are ...

There are many famous examples of animals who seem to understand human language. But is there any real science behind them?

Two California researchers say a U.S. government health publication instructed them to remove data on sexual orientation from ...

Certain words are overrepresented in text written by AI language models. A study investigates why such patterns develop.

VAEs also introduce mathematical constraints that accommodate computational models called large neural networks. To continue with the example of large language models, these neural networks can be ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

As the Supreme Court has recognized for decades, diversity enriches education. Contrary to the political talking points ...

D r. Francis Collins led the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, ...

Finley was awarded prizes and awards for his work on tornadoes, but in 1887, the Signal Corps banned the use of the word ...

A research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track finger-spelling in American Sign Language (ASL).

March 15, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.