The La Jolla–based Scripps Research synthetic chemist spent a while thinking about how to offer multiple choices to solve a ...

David Baker, head of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. (UW Photo) Life is a little different ...

The term was first seen in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau's book "Walden." Oxford University Press has officially dubbed "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year. Brain rot is defined as "the supposed ...

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the ...

If you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary. After public consultation ...

“Choosing the Word of the Year,” Grathwohl acknowledged, “is a bit of a dark art.” The contest began 20 years ago, with the selection of “chav” (British slang for working class ...

A startup called Spines apparently wants to use AI to edit and publish 8,000 books in 2025 — though no word on whether they ... don’t care about art, don’t care about the instinctive human ...

We are taking cross-sector action in writing to government ministers, as the UK urgently needs a strategic, joined-up approach, led by central Government, for the use and management of materials in ...

and color chemistry textbooks to devise her method. She settled on a dyeing process involving two baths: the first one with a colorless form of the aniline blue molecule and sodium carbonate in ...