This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

A simple writing test could detect cognitive impairment in older individuals before more serious symptoms occur, scientists have discovered. Writing is a complex, brain-heavy workout that requires the ...

Digitized handwriting tests may offer a low-cost way to detect cognitive decline, with dictation tasks revealing slower and less coordinated writing patterns in affected older adults. Credit: ...

For the past three years, I've watched a pattern repeat itself across software engineering organizations—from early-stage startups to publicly traded software companies. The team adopts an AI coding ...

On-demand writing is a legitimate test of a student's ability to form an argument using provided texts. Kentucky's proposed HB 257 would remove on-demand writing from state assessments. If writing is ...

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...

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Artificial intelligence is already being used to write romance novels, academic papers and software applications. But how does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Skeptics ...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Having a slower TUG time and standing on one leg for ...

Written words can do more than communicate. They can also unlock the writer’s ability to process distress, identify hurtful feelings and take control of personal conflict. Emily Johnston, a writing ...

My dearest Xiaomi SU7 Max, It’s been about a month since we were last together. Now, every time I climb back into my Ford Mustang Mach-E, I can’t stop thinking about you—your long range, your modular ...