In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone operators prevented exhibitors from linking their terminals to off-site computers, ...

Globally, more than 400 million tonnes of new plastic are produced every year. If business continues as usual, global production of primary plastic is forecast to almost triple, reaching 1100 million ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

New York, 23 July 2025 – The 2025 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) concluded this week with Member States calling for urgent, coordinated action to accelerate progress on ...

The smartest people don’t try to sound impressive—they use simple, powerful phrases that reveal how deeply they think. High-level thinking doesn’t mean using big words. It doesn’t mean flexing your ...

Ever wonder how computer programs get made? Like, how do people write stuff that a machine can actually understand? Back in the day, it was super hard, almost like talking to a computer in its own ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

The Secretary-General has today appointed an independent High-Level Expert Group to develop recommendations for measures that complement or go beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The appointment of ...

If you are a high-level thinker, you can understand complex concepts without seeing or experiencing them. You think in an abstract manner that allows you to take a bird's eye view of things and allows ...

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative ...