A famous legend claims Abraham de Moivre calculated the exact date of his death using a sleep pattern formula. But did he truly predict it, or is history hiding a myth?

By Susan Jaffe, KFF Health News Ever since Larry Wilkewitz retired more than 20 years ago from a wood products company, he’s had a commercial Medicare Advantage plan from the insurer Humana. But two ...

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Scientists have identified a crucial mechanism that allows plants to shape their vascular systems, determining whether they grow soft edible storage organs or develop the rigid woody tissue ...

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.

The sophisticated language Plato wrote in gave way to a simplified "common" Greek—and with it, a simplified psychology. We inherited a twice-flattened concept of mind.

Some states with a lot of commuters have reciprocity agreements, so you’re only taxed in your state of residence. Some states tax nonresidents who physically work within their borders, but they may ...

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Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library The mathematical reasoning performed by LLMs is fundamentally different from the rule-based symbolic methods in traditional formal reasoning.