People Explain The Etymology Of These 64 Common Words You Probably Never Knew About

We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the ...

The key academic skill you’ve probably never heard of – and 4 ways to encourage it

Metacognition is often described as ‘thinking about our thinking’. It involves being aware of how our mind works and using ...

Fern stems reveal secrets of evolution – how constraints in development can lead to new forms

Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.
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Experts detect AI text by looking for human idiosyncrasies, like word variation and complex sentences

Existing AI-text detecting services, including ZeroGPT, Originality and AI Detector, train large language models to analyze ...
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Spatially heterogeneous inhibition projects sequential activity onto unique neural subspaces

This valuable study uses mathematical modeling and analysis to address the question of how neural circuits generate distinct low-dimensional, sequential neural dynamics that can change on fast, ...
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Physicists Say The Entire Universe Might Only Need One Constant – Time

In a cafe at CERN in 1992, three physicists realized they disagreed about how many constants are needed to describe all of nature. A recent paper suggests only one – time – is necessary.