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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 Sciences

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Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer -- Sagar Lekhak, Rochester Institute of Technology

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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. Louis

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With Artemis II facing delays, NASA announces big structural changes to the lunar program -- Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota

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Are heroes born or made? Role models and training can prepare ordinary people to take heroic action -- Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College

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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 University

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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 Sydney

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A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands -- Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Johns Hopkins University

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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 Florida

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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 University

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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 Mississippi

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From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space -- Grant Tremblay, Smithsonian Institution

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Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested in astronomy – telescopes in schools can help -- Emma Marcucci, Smithsonian Institution

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Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated? -- R. Alexander Bentley, University of Tennessee

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'Probably' doesn't mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you -- Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California

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Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare -- Justin Pelletier, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs – threatening democracy -- Filippo Menczer, Indiana University

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Fears about TikTok's policy changes point to a deeper problem in the tech industry -- Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder

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Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood -- Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University

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Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats' surprising hunting strategy -- Leonie Baier, Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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Why does pain last longer for women? Immune cells may be the culprit -- Geoffroy Laumet, Michigan State University

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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 College

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Picky eating starts in the womb – a nutritional neuroscientist explains how to expand your child's palate -- Kathleen Keller, Penn State

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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 Angeles

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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 Angeles

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Infusing asphalt with plastic could help roads last longer and resist cracking under heat -- Md S Hossain, University of Texas at Arlington

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Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry -- Eric Yttri, Carnegie Mellon University

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A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form -- Thomas Morgan, Arizona State University

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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 Diego

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Can shoes alter your mind? What neuroscience says about foot sensation and focus -- Atom Sarkar, Drexel University

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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 Carolina

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What is Bluetooth and how does it work? -- Shreyas Sen, Purdue University

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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 Technology

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How do scientists hunt for dark matter? A physicist explains why the mysterious substance is so hard to find -- David Joffe, Kennesaw State University

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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 Technology

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