The psychologist B.F. Skinner (1904-90) is remembered for his principle of reinforcement. His idea was simple. When our actions are rewarded by their consequences, we tend to repeat them. When they ...

Former president Rodrigo Duterte's defense team has questioned the prosecution's reliance on self-confessed murderers as its star witnesses in the crimes against humanity charges the former leader is ...

The Nigerian government advises youths on productive social media use to tap into vast opportunities for self-empowerment and build a future-ready life.

While self-checkout is intended to make shopping more efficient and accessible for customers and cheaper for stores, some people simply refuse to use them when they're running errands. Whether it's an ...

You’re at the edge of something.” I spoke with Osler about why we’re more vulnerable to hallucinate with a bot than to join a cult, why the bots make us feel good, her own love-hate relationship with ...

Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has raised another $16 billion to help fuel its ambition for its fleet of self-driving cars to provide rides throughout the world while other deep-pocketed rival services backed ...

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

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Discord, the popular online communications platform launched a decade ago as a hub for gamers, is postponing a controversial age verification policy after users mounted a fierce backlash over privacy ...

The implication was that AIPAC considered a small challenge to its hard line of unconditional support for the current Israeli government from someone like me to be scarier than electing a person ...

Neurons placed inside engineered living bodies built from frog cells self-organize, become active, and reshape movement ...

Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta's Instagram, testified during a social media trial that he disagrees with the idea that people ...