As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become more widely used in academic research at Stanford, faculty across disciplines are debating how to adopt the technology without compromising scholarly rigor ...

Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named Veronika. Scientists have documented a lot of animals that use tools, like ...

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A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. By Emily Anthes For a cow, Veronika has had what might ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

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A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...

Alex Rozier from our station NBC4 Los Angeles reports on the tablets and antennas car thieves are using to start up the vehicles they’ve broken into. Police say the thieves in some cases are ...

The debate over artificial intelligence has flared up again in Seattle after KIRO Newsradio uncovered a formal complaint that a Seattle police officer used multiple AI programs to help write key ...