Internally directed cognition (IDC), whether spontaneous or intentional, has been associated with impaired performance in cognitive tasks. Yet, the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning this ...

Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that it has detected signs of a “highly complex” phonetic alphabet in the ...

Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,” the unified mathematical framework for all matter and forces in the universe ...

In our conversation about numbers that explain the world, we’re looking at the point-in-time count. So far in Headway’s weekly conversation about the numbers that help us understand our world, we’ve ...

We have the 11-letter answer for "Pay attention, class" ... and a hint to the positions of certain vowels in this puzzle's grid crossword clue, last seen in the Universal Crossword February 2, 2026 ...

A woman gets emotional around a makeshift memorial honoring Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer the day before, near the site of the shooting in Minneapolis, on January 8, 2026. Credit: ...

see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google A volunteer interviews a person experiencing homelessness in their tent during Central Ohio's annual point-in-time count last week. Photos: ...

For the first time ever, Tesla has revealed how many people are actually paying for Full Self-Driving. The answer: 1.1 million, roughly 12% of its cumulative vehicle sales. The disclosure came in ...

Candles are placed next to printed portraits of some of the civilians killed in protests in Iran on Jan. 24, in Inner Alster, Hamburg. As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of ...

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to scratch herself. The cow, named Veronika, also appeared to refine her technique ...

Philadelphia's point-in-time count – a federally-mandated survey of homelessness in the city – happens each year in late January. On that night, volunteers fan out across the city to document how many ...

On the occasion of receiving the most influential test-of-time paper award for his POPL 2011 paper (which describes the technology behind the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel), Sumit shares stories ...