A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from ...

War in Iran Has Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons The Pentagon’s rush to rearm its Mideast forces makes it less ready to confront potential adversaries like Russia and China, ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

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