Peer review, like many things, sounds great in theory. When you submit a paper for publication, qualified experts objectively review your paper, comment on its suitability for publication and give you feedback that you can use to improve it. However, in reality, the problems with peer review go far beyond getting a reviewer who just doesn’t get your […] … learn more→

Meta will make its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available to the United States’ government, the tech giant has announced, in a controversial move that raises a moral dilemma for everyone who uses the software. Meta last week revealed it would make the models, known as Llama, available to government agencies, “including those that are working on […] … learn more→

The author John Steinbeck said: “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” Many others have claimed they formulated breakthroughs and innovations in dreams. Recent studies on the science of sleep suggest these claims are supported by modern science. A 2024 study suggests […] … learn more→

It’s there on the nightstand, staring at us accusingly, that book they gave us last Christmas, that they promised we’d love, that we know we’ll like, but… it was time for the BeReal and right after we started checking out what our friends were saying in the Whatsapp group. Reading a book is a pain. […] … learn more→

Researchers from several disciplines and institutional representatives from Université Côte d’Azur have been accredited to participate in the last four Conferences of the Parties (COP) dedicated to climate change. They are thus authorized to access the blue zone, which allows them to speak with the negotiators, to access the debates and the “side events” organized […] … learn more→

Do you know what you spend 75% of your time doing? Communicating orally . Specifically, we spend 30% of our time talking and 45% of our time listening. Spoken communication is so intrinsic to being human that it seems natural and instinctive to us, something we don’t need to specifically learn. But that’s a mistake. When we […] … learn more→

The Age of Enlightenment is today an essential reference in public discourse when it comes to discussing living together and the values ​​of the Republic. This makes its teaching an exercise that is both difficult and necessary. Because to understand the spirit of Voltaire and Rousseau, it is important to place it in the complexity […] … learn more→

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages differently – with some assuming […] … learn more→

In recent years, there has been growing concern about Russian military activity around the undersea cables that form the backbone of the internet, a network of 500 submarine cables stretching hundreds of thousands of miles, transmitting terabits of data per second. They carry 97% of global communications and are essential for transmitting government, financial and personal data. The threat of a […] … learn more→

It’s nine o’clock in the morning; sleepy children enter their classroom and their eyes open a little wider when they see the furniture arranged in an unexpected way: tables stacked up, chairs at different heights or even turned upside down on the floor. At first, this scene will seem strange to them, but it will […] … learn more→