In a study published earlier this year, DiGirolamo and his colleagues successfully trained six pigeons to watch short CT scan videos and decide whether or not they showed a lung nodule (growths on the ...

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The pigeons in the study even started recognizing other health problems they weren't trained on.

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Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette has refused to acknowledge systemic racism in the province, despite a recent scandal involving a police force in a Montr ...

Learn about a new working paper that argues that consciousness may not be limited to Earth, raising the possibility of alien minds — and perhaps even AI — built from radically different materials.

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