Category: 1. Edi-Choice

For cognitive neuroscientist Nadine Gaab, the termination of a five-year grant one year before it was scheduled to end couldn’t have come at a worse moment. As part of a study aimed at understanding the co-development of math and reading…

When Michael Brenner taught the graduate-level class “Applied Mathematics 201” in fall 2023, the course’s nonlinear partial differential equations were too tough for artificial intelligence. AI managed to solve just 30 to 50 percent of the…

Executive function — top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions — have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being included in national and international…

The Bosumtwi impact crater, nestled in Ghana’s mineral-rich Ashanti gold belt, stands as one of Earth’s most well-preserved meteorite impact sites. As highlighted by a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters (2025), this…

Astrophysicists don’t know if direct-collapse black holes are real. They were hypothesized to explain how the Universe could contain supermassive black holes (SMBH) so early. They don’t require a stellar progenitor, nor do they require…

For a mouse, survival in the wild often boils down to one urgent question: flee or freeze?

The best strategy depends on which mouse you are asking. A new study by Harvard biologists has found that two closely related species of deer mice have…