Forget 'Stranger Things': These 8 Sci-Fi Shows Have Much Better Writing

So why not take a look beyond Hawkins to the wider multiverse of TV science fiction, where there’s no shortage of elevated, ...
The Harvard Crimson

AI Wrote A Harvard Physicist’s Most Recent Paper. No One Knows What It Means for Science.

As LLM calculation skills advance, theoretical fields of science are reckoning with the possibility that they could be ...

English still dominates science, but its share fell from 94% to 85%

In 2023, about 85% of the roughly five million articles indexed in major global databases covering the natural, medical and ...
SciELO

ChatGPT applications in academic writing: a review of potential, limitations, and ethical challenges

This article systematically reviewed 327 documents in the core collection of the Web of Science database regarding ChatGPT applications in the writing domain. This study aimed to comprehensively ...
Mother Jones

A Clarinetist, a High School Student, and Some Climate Deniers Write a Science Paper

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It sounds like a bad joke, but last week a press release dropped into my inbox: ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A clarinetist, a high school student, and four climate deniers write a science paper, with a little help from AI…

It sounds like a bad joke, but last week a press release dropped into my inbox: “Leading Scientists Challenge Foundation of Climate Change Assessments, Revealing Fatal Flaws in Ocean Heat Content (OHC ...
Frontiers

Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing on a keyboard

In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and ...
Popular Mechanics

Archaeologists May Have Discovered the Oldest Form of Writing—Ever

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Early hunter-gatherers who lived ...
The New York Times

Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz.

Artificial intelligence is already being used to write romance novels, academic papers and software applications. But how does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Skeptics ...
Science Daily

40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
New York Post

Scientists discover oldest form of writing in mysterious Stone Age engravings

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...
ZME Science

Mysterious Marks on 40,000-Year-Old Ice Age Figurines May Actually Be the Earliest Precursor to Writing

The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave, approximately 40,000 years old, bears multiple sequences of crosses and dots on its surface. Credit: Universität Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen. Deep in a cave ...