Joy Milne knew something was wrong with her husband long before doctors did. It started with a change in his scent—a musky, waxy odor she couldn’t place. Seventeen years later, when Les was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the pieces fell into place. Then, at a support group, she smelled it again: the same distinct fragrance…
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In 2023 and 2024, as AI text generators started to become mainstream, a curious trend emerged: the word “delve” began appearing in a suspicious number of science papers. It became a kind of calling card for AI-generated content — but it’s far from the weirdest one.
Researchers claim to have found the “strongest evidence” of biological activity outside the solar system. The findings are tantalizing, but we wouldn’t draw any conclusion just yet. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its gold-coated eye to the cosmos, we were all thinking it. Finding alien life wasn’t its main goal, but…
In the spring of 1971, an entomologist scooped a small insect from a seemingly pristine creek in the Netherlands and pinned it in a museum drawer. The larva—a species of caddisfly—had stitched together a casing from scraps it found in its freshwater world. It was a normal act of insect ingenuity, nothing that would raise…
President Donald Trump called Harvard University “a disgrace” and froze $2.2 billion in federal funding, accusing the Ivy League giant of antisemitism and rejecting demands to dismantle DEI programs and reform admissions.
Nearly 300 US academics, from NASA to Yale, have applied for “scientific asylum” at France’s Aix-Marseille University, fleeing Trump’s $9 billion research funding cuts and ideological crackdown in a historic brain drain.
Brown University secures a $300 million loan to counter a $46 million deficit and looming federal funding cuts, as the Trump administration targets $510 million in research grants over alleged antisemitism and DEI concerns.
The Desert Mothers of early Christianity were as determined as male mystics to live solitary lives in the most testing of conditions. While their characters and lives are less well documented, what we do have gives intriguing glimpses into what it was like for a woman to be a recluse in a milieu dominated by men. The post Spiritual Women of the Wilderness appeared first on New Lines Magazine.
Popular AI ranking site Chatbot Arena has formed Arena Intelligence Inc., operating as LMArena, to fund expansion and platform upgrades while maintaining neutrality. The post AI Benchmarking Platform Chatbot Arena Forms New Company, Launches LMArena appeared first on WinBuzzer.
A new study combines historical observations, climate modeling, and data from tree rings to create a fuller picture of historic as well as potential drought conditions.