How the 89-year-old tradition of Script Ohio and dotting the i defines Ohio State and its band

At 89 years old, Script Ohio not only remains one of the greatest traditions in college football, but also serves as a ...

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em-dashes. “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes ...

How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...
University of Nevada, Reno

Ask the Professor: Why do we use a sideways 8 to represent infinity?

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was ...
Edutopia

A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

SIMA 2 is a more general agent. It can complete complex tasks in previously unseen environments. And it's a self-improving ...

Decoding new DNA 'letters' to advance medicine and biotechnology

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and ...