The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

U.S. economists may be barely holding on by their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, ...

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Renowned neurologist and A.D. White Professor at Large Oliver Sacks attracted students, faculty and residents to Statler Auditorium last night for a lecture entitled "Creativity and the Brain." After ...

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Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. It’s hard to walk a block or finish a morning coffee without encountering some system that attempts to tell you what to ...

Not only can AI figure out what you're thinking, it can now predict what decision you'll make next based on patterns in human behavior. That has huge consequences for hiring. Most people already ...