‘The movie has tremendous heart’: We sat down with the director of ‘Masters of the Universe’ to learn how he found ‘the power’ for the new He-Man

“Masters of the Universe” brings He-Man to life for a new generation, and director Travis Knight is taking this responsibility seriously. “It is very personal to so many people,” Knight…

Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease

For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer between 2015 and 2021, about 97% died…

Stroop Test Exposes Inherent LLM Flaw

Summary: A new cognitive evaluation of artificial intelligence has unmasked a fundamental, systemic flaw running through large language model (LLM) attention mechanisms. By administering the classic psychological “Stroop task” to…

Semantic Knowledge Is Key to Human Innovation

Summary: A new study has isolated the foundational cognitive engine driving human creativity and technological advancement. The research demonstrates that our “semantic knowledge”, the internal cognitive map of how concepts…

DBS Remodels White Matter Paths to Reverse Depression

Summary: A new study uncovered the first direct evidence that deep brain stimulation (DBS) physically remodels white matter pathways and rewires large-scale neural networks. The study addresses a historic diagnostic…

How do you study an invisible exoplanet? Astronomers discover planetary ‘fingerprints’ in the rings around stars

How do you weigh a planet you can’t see from many light-years away? Astronomers may have the answer — and it involves “reading between the rings,” aka the bright beautiful…

Rare Deultum sculpture brings acient myth to life

Archaeologists working at the Roman city of Deultum in Bulgaria have identified and begun reconstructing a large marble sculpture showing the mythological rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, a discovery pieced…

Dr. ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at diagnosing health problems

A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her…

Archaeologists uncover burial cache at Ancient Heliopolis

A cache of burial objects discovered beneath a tomb in Cairo’s Ain Shams district is providing archaeologists with new evidence about funerary practices at ancient Heliopolis. The discovery was made…

‘The Arrival’ at 30: Charlie Sheen’s criminally underrated alien invasion thriller feels much scarier today

The science fiction film trope of the passionate astronomer monitoring radio telescopes in search of transmissions from an extraterrestrial intelligence, then actually hearing one, seems cliché today after decades of…