According to a recent study, events geologists use to distinguish transitions between geological chapters in Earth’s story follow a hidden hierarchical pattern, one that could shed light on both past and future tumult. “Geological time scales may look like tidy timelines in textbooks, but their boundaries tell a much more chaotic story,” says study co-author Andrej Spiridonov, a geologist and …
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According to a recent study, events geologists use to distinguish transitions between geological chapters in Earth’s story follow a hidden hierarchical pattern, one that could shed light on both past and future tumult. “Geological time scales may look like tidy timelines in textbooks, but their boundaries tell a much more chaotic story,” says study co-author Andrej Spiridonov, a geologist and …
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Earth’s history is divided up into different geological wedges of time, wedges we like to call things like epochs, periods, and eons. They’re defined by events that shaped the planet (think big extinctions and biodiversity booms), and it’s generally been accepted that the boundaries between them are randomly distributed. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign …
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Summary: A new study identifies a brain activity pattern that signals self-preoccupied thinking, a trait associated with anxiety and depression. In experiments, the pattern appeared during mental breaks and predicted when people would soon turn their thoughts inward. Analysis of more than 1,000 brain scans confirmed that those with high self-preoccupation showed stronger fluctuations in this neural activity at rest. …
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Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) negatively impacts the lives of millions of people worldwide, but more effective treatments could be on the way after researchers were able to identify specific neural biomarkers associated with the condition. These biomarkers are patterns of brain activity present in people with OCD when they’re acting compulsively, and which don’t show up the rest of the time. …
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“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking therapeutic help to manage mental …
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Donald Trump and his allies have been accused of executing a “pattern of lawfare” akin to those exerted by authoritarian regimes in Hungary and Russia after adopting a new strategy to target political opponents: allegations of mortgage fraud. First it was Letitia James, the New York attorney general, then it was Adam Schiff, a California senator. Now, the president is …
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