Education

Researchers Trystan Loustau and Liane Young explore how autism can buffer against the negative impact of social comparisons.

Rejecting the “haul” culture of excessive shopping and promoting conscious consuming, the de-influencer movement is going mainstream – here’s why.

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.

The U.S. faced a similar predicament in the 1950s, and undertook an initiative that solved the problem.

They say great minds think alike — or maybe they land on similar ideas because they are observing the same world all around them. Every year, as my team and I curate the absolute best books of the year, we discover some themes across the 1000-plus submissions we consider.

With breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) in academic research has increased tremendously.

In the early ninth century, a Frankish courtier used a story of demonic possession to criticize the realm’s leaders for their “manifold sins.” Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the tale, the demon called himself Wiggo.

I have heard some version of Mr. Ramaswamy’s sentiments countless times over the years. I grew up north of Atlanta in the 1990s as the son of two Pakistani parents and came to know hundreds of Indians and Pakistanis who hail from the culture Mr. Ramaswamy is lionizing.

IF YOU TAKE a GLP-1 agonist like Ozempic or Zepbound, you can see changes to your waistline and your blood sugar within weeks. What might be less obvious is how the drug is affecting your brain.