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Research on teen social media use has a racial bias – studies of white kids...
White teens and teens of color do not have identical online experiences.JGI/Jamie Grill/Tetra images via Getty ImagesMost research on teen social media use has been conducted on white teensand college...
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Epigenetic and social factors both predict aging and health – but new...
Epigenetics is but one of many factors that influence aging, health and disease.bestdesigns/iStock via Getty ImagesCan we objectively tell how fast we are aging? With a good measure, scientists might...
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War in Ukraine accelerates global drive toward killer robots
It wouldn't take much to turn this remotely operated mobile machine gun into an autonomous killer robot.Pfc. Rhita Daniel, U.S. Marine CorpsThe U.S. military is intensifying its commitment to the...
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Lesson from a year at war: In contrast to the Russians, Ukrainians master a...
In war, it's not the size or sophistication of the technology, but how it's used – especially in combinations.Elena Tita/Global Images Ukraine via Getty ImagesIn less than a year, Ukraine’s military...
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How frontotemporal dementia, the syndrome affecting Bruce Willis, changes the...
Some of the same genetic mutations can lead to FTD, ALS or symptoms of both.antoniokhr/iStock via Getty Images PlusAround 55 million people worldwide suffer from dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease....
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Drones over Ukraine: What the war means for the future of remotely piloted...
A Ukrainian soldier uses a commercial drone to monitor the front line in eastern Ukraine.Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesOver the past year, images from Ukraine have often...
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Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what doesn't...
Your brain can imagine things that haven't happened or that don't even exist.agsandrew/iStock via Getty Images PlusYou can easily picture yourself riding a bicycle across the sky even though that’s not...
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Supreme Court unlikely to 'break the internet' over Google, Twitter cases --...
Will justices seek to hold social media firms to account for the postings of terrorists?AP Photo/Patrick Semansky“These are not, like, the nine greatest experts on the internet,” noted Justice Elena...
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Night skies are getting 9.6% brighter every year as light pollution erases...
All human development, from large cities to small towns, shines light into the night sky. Benny Ang/Flickr, CC BYCC BY-NDFor most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But...
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What is spillover? Bird flu outbreak underscores need for early detection to...
Wild birds like pelicans and ducks are getting infected with – and dying from – a new strain of avian influenza and have spread it to farm animals around the world.Klebher Vasquez/Anadolu Agency via...
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Is the Loch Ness monster real?
This is the famous – and fake – photograph of the Loch Ness monster, taken near Inverness, Scotland, on April 19, 1934. The photograph was later revealed to be a hoax. Keystone/Hulton Archive via Getty...
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Can eating poppy seeds affect drug test results? An addiction and pain...
Eating culinary poppy seeds won’t get you high, but they could lead to a failed drug test.Linda Caldwell/EyeEm via Getty ImagesThe U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning...
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Biologists discovered a new species of tiny owl on the forested island of...
Research suggests that only about 1,000 to 1,500 Príncipe scops owls exist in the wild.Martim MeloA team of Spanish biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl,...
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One easy way to fight antibiotic resistance? Good hand hygiene
Washing your hands reduces your risk of transmitting and contracting harmful bacteria from other people and the environment.SDI Productions/E+ via Getty ImagesCan washing your hands help stop the...
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Bile acids and gut microbes could potentially treat multiple sclerosis,...
Multiple sclerosis involves the immune system attacking the protective myelin sheath of neurons.koto_feja/iStock via Getty Images PlusMultiple sclerosis is characterized by an immune system gone...
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Three AI experts on how access to ChatGPT-style tech is about to change our...
ChatGPT has the fastest-growing user base of any technology in history.Dmytro Varavin/iStock via Getty ImagesChatGPT burst onto the technology world, gaining 100 million users by the end of January...
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Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy – a proposed zone...
Radio observatories like the Green Bank Telescope are in radio quiet zones that protect them from interference.NRAO/AUI/NSF, CC BYVisible light is just one part of the electromagnetic spectrum that...
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The retention problem: Women are going into tech but are also being driven out
A sense of community and mutual support help women respond to toxic tech culture.Maskot/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesBy 2029, there will be 3.6 million computing jobs in the U.S., but there will only...
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How does RNA know where to go in the city of the cell? Using cellular ZIP...
Cells move their genetic material from one place to another in the form of RNA.Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty ImagesBefore 2020, when my friends and acquaintances asked me what I...
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Pancakes won't turn you into a zombie as in HBO's 'The Last of Us,' but fungi...
A human fungal zombie from the TV show 'The Last of Us.'Liane Hentscher/HBOIn the HBO series “The Last of Us,” named after the popular video game of the same name, the flour supplies of the world are...
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