Bonjour! Ni hao! Merhaba! If you move to a new country as an adult, you have to work much harder to get past that initial “hello” in the local language than if you’d moved as a child. Why does it take ...

Understanding the biological basis of consciousness or subjective experience is one of the most exciting and challenging projects of this century. For many reasons, an evolutionary approach to this ...

There’s an important shift happening in the world of large language models (LLMs)—one that could redefine how we interact with artificial intelligence. And the answer, previewed today by OpenAi, might ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cristina Robinson, Vanderbilt University; Kate Snyder, Vanderbilt University, and ...