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ChatGPT Linked with Memory Loss, Poor Academic Performance

When students rely on AI to write their papers or organize all of their information, they forego the need to ingest and memorize the material themselves. Read More ›
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Photo: California two-spot octopus, by Tom Kleindinst via Marine Biological Laboratory.

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›
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In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›

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