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How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability - Carolina Rossini, UMass Amherst
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Why are some stars always visible while others come and go with the seasons? -- Vahe Peroomian, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences1 day ago
Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer -- Sagar Lekhak, Rochester Institute of Technology2 days ago
Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID -- Sarah Greene, Washington University in St. Louis and Philip Budge, Washington University in St. Louis2 days ago
With Artemis II facing delays, NASA announces big structural changes to the lunar program -- Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota2 days ago
Are heroes born or made? Role models and training can prepare ordinary people to take heroic action -- Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College4 days ago
I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness -- Eric Horstick, West Virginia University3 days ago
AI and 3D printing help researchers create heat- and pressure-resistant materials for aerospace and defense applications -- Houlong Zhuang, Arizona State University and Vitor Rielli, UNSW Sydney3 days ago
A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands -- Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Johns Hopkins University4 days ago
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Living in space can change where your brain sits in your skull – new research -- Rachael Seidler, University of Florida and Tianyi (Erik) Wang, University of Florida23 days ago
NASA's Artemis II plans to send a crew around the Moon to test equipment and lay the groundwork for a future landing -- Margaret Landis, Arizona State University1 month ago
NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon shows how US space strategy has changed since Apollo – and contrasts with China's closed program -- Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi1 month ago
From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space -- Grant Tremblay, Smithsonian Institution1 month ago
Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested in astronomy – telescopes in schools can help -- Emma Marcucci, Smithsonian Institution1 month ago
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Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated? -- R. Alexander Bentley, University of Tennessee8 days ago
'Probably' doesn't mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you -- Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California11 days ago
Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare -- Justin Pelletier, Rochester Institute of Technology11 days ago
Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs – threatening democracy -- Filippo Menczer, Indiana University23 days ago
Fears about TikTok's policy changes point to a deeper problem in the tech industry -- Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder1 month ago
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Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood -- Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University8 days ago
Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats' surprising hunting strategy -- Leonie Baier, Naturalis Biodiversity Center5 days ago
Why does pain last longer for women? Immune cells may be the culprit -- Geoffroy Laumet, Michigan State University11 days ago
1 PROTEIN TO RULE THEM ALL – WHY CROWNING THE PROTEIN THAT MAKES JELLYFISH GLOW GREEN AS A MODEL CAN HELP SCIENTISTS STREAMLINE BIOLOGY -- Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College11 days ago
Picky eating starts in the womb – a nutritional neuroscientist explains how to expand your child's palate -- Kathleen Keller, Penn State12 days ago
Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are 'resurrecting' their genomes to understand how and why -- Lily Peck, University of California, Los Angeles18 days ago
3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories -- Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo, University of California, Los Angeles22 days ago
Infusing asphalt with plastic could help roads last longer and resist cracking under heat -- Md S Hossain, University of Texas at Arlington26 days ago
Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry -- Eric Yttri, Carnegie Mellon University22 days ago
A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form -- Thomas Morgan, Arizona State University1 month ago
Certain brain injuries may be linked to violent crime – identifying them could help reveal how people make moral choices -- Christopher M. Filley, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Isaiah Kletenik, Harvard University, and Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego1 month ago
Can shoes alter your mind? What neuroscience says about foot sensation and focus -- Atom Sarkar, Drexel University1 month ago
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Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition's ancient roots -- Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina5 days ago
What is Bluetooth and how does it work? -- Shreyas Sen, Purdue University12 days ago
How do people know their interests? The shortest player in the NBA shows how self-belief matters more than biology -- Greg Edwards, Missouri University of Science and Technology18 days ago
How do scientists hunt for dark matter? A physicist explains why the mysterious substance is so hard to find -- David Joffe, Kennesaw State University26 days ago
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Physics of poo: Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time -- David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology and Patricia Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology14 hours ago
