A baby zebrafish is just half the size of a pea. A recent look inside its transparent brain, however, offers clues to the far bigger mystery of how we remember—and how we forget. In an experiment that ...

Against expectations, the Democrats held the US Senate in the midterm elections even as they appear to have lost control of the House of Representatives. The razor-thin race shows just how split the ...

Tribes have long been recognized as a key player in Iraqi politics. Yet, as the Oct. 10 elections approach, the large tribal gatherings and celebrations at which the country’s political blocs would ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It must periodically ...

A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It must periodically forget what it knows. And while this new approach won’t displace the ...