Even if you've never heard of "creeping normality," it could already be affecting your relationship without you realizing it. So what is it, exactly, and how can you avoid it? Creeping normality is ...

Large language models (LLMs) are gradually transforming research in the life sciences in ways that extend far beyond improving productivity, and they are becoming a new normal before scientists have ...

Do you long to be normal, or shudder at the very idea? If you are ill, is normality what draws you towards the light, or what makes you hesitate on the threshold of action? If you’re in recovery, has ...

On sexuality, normalcy, and ethics. Now we have long known, at least since the days of Alfred Kinsey, that the idea of the “normal” confers social sanction and, indeed, social approval. “Everybody’s ...

Rare-variant association studies (RVAS) have made important contributions to human complex trait genetics. These studies rely on specialized statistical methods for analyzing rare-variant associations ...

No one can ever know for sure when life will return to normal after a particular event, not least because what’s normal keeps on changing, even in normal times. Nevertheless, it’s a question we can’t ...

This post was written by Adrien Fillon from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, who led a meta-analysis of the "exceptionality effect" discussed in this post. Gilad Feldman, the corresponding ...

Large language models (LLMs) are gradually transforming research in the life sciences in ways that extend far beyond improving productivity, and becoming a new normal before scientists have agreed ...