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2021: a year physicists asked, ‘What lies beyond the Standard Model?’

Aaron McGowan, Rochester Institute of Technology If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It...

Scientists create novel approach to control energy waves in 4D

University of Missouri scientists engineered a synthetic metamaterial to direct mechanical waves along a specific path, which adds an innovative layer of control to...

GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student, UCLA psychologists report

But does the technology mimic human reasoning or is it using a fundamentally new cognitive process? Holly Ober | July 31, 2023 People solve new problems...

Online romance scams: Research reveals scammers’ tactics – and how to defend against them

Fangzhou Wang, University of Texas at Arlington In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist Simon Leviev, who posed as a...

‘Knowledge of self’: How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop

The popular phrase ‘knowledge of self’ – invoked by numerous rappers who adhere to Islam – is nearly a millennium old. Paul Hawthorne for Getty Images

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When medals matter most: high-performance sport funding risks a return to the ‘win at all costs’ model

Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato On the face of it,...

Birkin handbags, Walmart’s ‘Wirkin’ and the meme-ification of class warfare

Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College In previous eras of internet culture,...

Caitlin Clark, Christine Brennan and how racial stereotypes persist in the media’s WNBA coverage

Molly Yanity, University of Rhode Island The “Caitlin Clark effect,”...
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