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Knowledge workers such as scientists, teachers, lawyers, and business leaders are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence applications for tasks that demand imagination, creativity, and problem solving. Ironicall...

In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and selectively sharing food. The behavior offers a glimpse into humanity’s prosocial evolutionary past.

But a question has lingered: H...

Artificial intelligence can summarize research, generate ideas, and analyze enormous amounts of data in seconds. The power of that little “Ask anything” AI prompt box is immense, but can it help us make wiser decisions? Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, author of

Picture this: 71 adults signed up for a study comparing brief to longer mindfulness practice. Many had never meditated, while others had dabbled years before.

Participants were divided at random into three groups: One group got 20 minutes of mindfulness meditation, a s...