Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain

Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly ...

Regnology Research Maps Route From AI Pilots to Production in Regulatory Reporting

Regnology Research Maps Route From AI Pilots to Production in Regulatory Reporting Global study of 276 practitioners across 22 countries defines the “Agentic Gap” and outlines how financial ...

I was awarded $1 million in scholarships to NYU. I also sacrificed a lot of my teenage life to get there.

I received more than $1 million in combined college aid and scholarship offers and a full ride to NYU. Getting there became a ...
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Active supermassive black holes may be engines of star formation, not just destruction, study suggests

At the heart of some galaxies lie extremely bright spots—far too luminous to be lit by stars alone. Each glowing core outshines the rest of its galaxy combined, thanks to a supermassive black hole ...