Using sparse materials and national symbols, she challenges how civic identity is constructed, remembered and imposed.

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Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily ...

Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist. CIVICUS categorizes civil rights into five distinct levels—open ...

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An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that ...

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The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example ...

The uniqueness of human consciousness is demonstrated in research proving the human brain stores memories differently than ...