On 16 September, the world marks the international day for the preservation of the ozone layer—a day of action initiated by the United Nations. This year's theme is "from science to global action"—a ...

For most people, swallowing is second nature, but how does it occur, and why do some people have difficulty with it?

For most people, swallowing is second nature, but how does it occur, and why do some people have difficulty with it?

Despite being one of the largest animals on the planet, the limited population and vast territory of the North Atlantic right ...

UAE’s MBZUAI and G24 released K2 Think, an open-source reasoning model with only 32 billion parameters that in trials rivals ...

Abstract: This paper proposes an instructional model that integrates Three-Dimensional Learning (3D) and the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework to enhance science education in response to the ...

Generative artificial intelligence enthusiasts are always on the lookout for brand-new AI models released for public testing ahead of their commercial launch, and in the past few weeks, they have ...

OpenAI has released numerous models with a confusing pattern of names over the past few years. It has developed both large language models like GPT-5 and GPT-4.5 and reasoning models like o1. Here's a ...

A key objective of behavioral science research is to better understand how people make decisions in situations where outcomes are unknown or uncertain, which entail a certain degree of risk. The ...

The rest of the class nodded in agreement. We were midway through a traditional lecture on Newton’s laws, and the student’s question, along with their classmates’ collective response, made me pause. I ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

Centre in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada Centre in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Department of ...