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Scientists Find Strong Human Preference to Turn Counterclockwise

The peer-reviewed study links the bias to a possible biomechanical asymmetry and points to uses in design and crowd management.

Bumblebees Use a Movable Ball to Reach Out‑of‑Reach Reward, Study Finds

Octopuses Learn to Use Mirrors to Locate Hidden Prey

Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure Tied to Lower Semantic Memory in Older Black Adults

Study Finds Transformers Collapse on Classic Stroop Test

Study Finds GPT‑4.5 Can Be Mistaken for a Human in Short Text Chats

Study Finds Brief AI Assistance Lifts Performance Then Undercuts Persistence

Richard Dawkins’ Talks With Claude Revive the AI Consciousness Question

New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

ArXiv Preprint Says Prompts Drive Many LVLM Hallucinations

Ancient DNA Switches Tied to Language Predate the Human–Neanderthal Split

Sony AI’s ‘Ace’ Robot Beats Elite Players in Table Tennis Tests

Milla Jovovich Unveils Open-Source AI ‘MemPalace’ as Claims Face Scrutiny

Karpathy’s File-Based LLM Wiki Spreads as Developers Build Obsidian Second Brains

Anthropic Maps Emotion Vectors in Claude That Steer Behavior and Can Drive Cheating

PNAS Nexus Study Argues Human Grammar Evolved to Showcase Wit

New RAG Papers Tout Structured, Chunk-Free and Hybrid Retrieval Gains

Rapid AI Gains Put 'Humanity's Last Exam' Within Reach

Meta Releases TRIBE v2, an Open Model That Predicts Brain Responses to Sight, Sound and Language

Humans Often Prefer the Same Mating Calls Animals Do, Study Finds