KOCHI: Calculating ‘X’ can be a headache even for grown-ups. Add ‘Y’, and things get trickier. For Keralam’s schoolchildren, ...

Even after reading feedback on an essay, you might find yourself stuck, wondering, "Where should I even start fixing ...

Drawing on an original data set, this Essay documents partisan polarization by party of presidential appointee in application of the Roberts Court’s ...

A new study found that we don't know our brain as well as we thought — and it could alter how we treat neurological ...

Background Antibiotic misuse at the community level remains a critical contributor to antimicrobial resistance, particularly in resource-constrained settings. Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs ...

Introduction"I want to take an IQ test that uses shapes and patterns rather than language-based questions.""I want to know ...

Aristotle's greatest insight wasn't just that logic works, but that truth has a structure independent of content. This video unpacks how abstract categories and syllogisms became the foundation for ...

HRM-Text builds on Sapient’s earlier work. The original HRM model, open-sourced in July 2025, had just 27 million parameters and demonstrated strong performance on complex reasoning tasks with as few ...

How agents acquire abstract concepts from sparse, diverse examples—often without explicit supervision—remains a central problem in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Human studies suggest ...

The brain may not need language to reason logically. The findings challenge long-standing assumptions about thought, intelligence, and how human cognition compares with AI. Credit: Shutterstock ...

Re “Cambridge Public Schools’ algebra problem” (Letters, July 20): One of the two letters in Monday’s edition asks why students are still being forced to take Algebra I. There are two issues: One is ...

Which cognitive mechanisms allow humans to reason logically, to understand whether a conclusion follows from the premises? Are they the same ones that allow the assembly of words into structured ...