As I observed in a column last year, the 2024 election was characterized online by its brain-rot memes, nonsensical collisions of imagery that produced a lot of noise but little coherent impact.

"We think this means that animals are smarter than we think, and that there are distinct brain dynamics related to learning. You might know something, but there's a parallel process related to how you ...

You might know something, but there's a parallel process related to how you use it. The brain seems wired to do that well, to allow us to toggle between performance and learning as we get better ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

“I think it sums up our immigration policy pretty well: ‘You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here,’” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, when asked about the ...

"Creators and consumers or such memes use humor both to alleviate some of the tension associated with a recession, and to deliberate about the situation," said Sulafa Zidani, an assistant ...

The new approval will allow doctors to use the AI to assess ischaemic core volume – the amount of brain tissue affected by a stroke – from computed tomography (CT) scans carried out without ...

In a new study designed to test the co-creative capabilities of large language models (LLMs), internet memes created by OpenAI's GPT-4o model were, on average, rated funnier, more creative and ...

Part of the answer may be in our genes. This month, a team from China’s Zhejiang University described an AI they’ve developed to hunt down genes related to brain aging and neurological disorders using ...

Brain rot—or brainrot—is a Gen Z slang term that means “chronically online,” and brainrot memes are so nonsensical they’re capable of “brain rotting.” With enough participation ...