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A new study suggests that four psychoactive compounds work in surprisingly similar ways, and that they break down the ...

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The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

According to a column by the New York Times’ Kevin Roose, employees at companies including Meta and OpenAI compete on “internal leaderboards that show how many tokens[…]each worker consumes.” At Meta ...

President Donald Trump held a rally in Kentucky on Wednesday, where he invited a local businessman to say a few words even though attendees “don’t wanna hear from you.” In Hebron, Trump played many of ...

Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is a time of fasting, reflection, prayer and community for Muslims around the world. This year, Ramadan began on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 17 ...

Most leaders read that as a rollout problem. A training problem. A communication problem. It’s none of those things. This month, a National Bureau of Economic Research study of 6,000 executives ...

Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. Proteins’ functions are closely tied to their often-complex 3D structures. Some have specialized pockets or protrusions that ...

Anthropic is re-entering negotiations with the Trump administration for use of its AI models by the U.S. military. Credit: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic, the AI company behind the ...