In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

Does free will exist? Neuroscientist Uri Maoz devises experiments to illuminate how—or if—the brain makes decisions.

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Scholars are debating the results of an effort to assess hundreds of papers’ credibility. Where some see failure and cause ...