New research shows that the transition from general to specific memories involves the maturation of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus.
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We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.
This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.
“We’re acting more like fans of a football team going to a game than a banker carefully choosing investments.”
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.
A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB.
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.
It’s not about fairness. It’s about using every possible advantage.
To solve “addition bias” don’t punish people who subtract — call in the “friction fixers” instead.
Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.
Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.
“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
Denmark’s 10 Jante Laws are grim, and yet they bring so much happiness.
Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what would happen if you traveled forever.
We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.
Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.
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The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.
We also don’t know how Tylenol works. But it does work.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.