Smithsonian Magazine

Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...
The New Yorker

A Childhood in Jewish New Orleans

That’s how Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo” begin, and also Ian Buruma’s memoir about his grandparents, “Their Promised Land.” The idea is, as soon as you show ...
eLife

“What” × “When” working memory representations using Laplace Neural Manifolds

The results include a comparison between two different basis functions for temporal selectivity and how these generate different predictions for the dynamics of neural populations. The conclusions are ...
Security Boulevard

Dust Specter APT Targets Government Officials in Iraq

IntroductionIn January 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz observed activity by a suspected Iran-nexus threat actor targeting government officials in Iraq. ThreatLabz discovered previously undocumented malware ...
Science Daily

Scientists reveal why human language isn’t like computer code

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Finite Propagation and the Regime Structure of Reality

Jr., T. (2026) Finite Propagation and the Regime Structure of Reality — Classicality and Geometry as Constraint-Limited Phenomena. Open Journal of Philosophy, 16, 138-150. doi: ...