Brains do not compute like digital machines running programs. Consciousness may arise from a unique kind of physical computation shaped by biology, energy constraints, and real-time dynamics. Credit: ...

In the Jan. 1 op-ed “Trump’s chips to China deal compromises national security,” author Tom Jurkowsky poses the question, “Why would the president give away one of America’s technological advantages ...

Your editorial “By All Means Raise Mitt Romney’s Taxes” (Dec. 22) correctly stresses that the rich pay a disproportionate share of taxes. Mr. Romney still argues that people like him should pony up ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Viterbi-Like successive cancellation (VL-SC) decoding algorithm for polar codes. The algorithm employs the bit log-likelihood-ratio as the “penalty value” within ...

President Trump’s trade policy, inflation and climbing stock prices shaped business and the economy this year. By Christine Zhang In recent years, macroeconomic tides have ebbed and flowed, but one ...

Many Mets fans will be nervous watching starters Nolan McLean and Clay Holmes pitch for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic next spring. It’s hard not to think back to what happened to ex-Mets ...

Anthropic is launching Claude Code in Slack, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The beta feature, available Monday as a research preview, builds on Anthropic’s ...

It’s supposed to be the most magical time of the year. The holidays are for gathering with loved ones, sharing traditions and creating lasting memories. Social connection is important for your spirit ...

Hosting duties that leave you frazzled, relatives lurking in every corner – welcome to Christmas interruptus, a time when sex can be the last thing on your mind. But couldn’t a little intimacy be the ...

Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy money. So confirms a pioneering study by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), which ...

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The holidays are always the most stressful part of my year, no matter how much I try to plan ahead. Amid the chaos, my usual workout routine – and often exercise altogether – falls by the wayside. But ...