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What are biomarkers? A biologist explains how doctors measure your health – and how combining cells from different people can find new markers - Michael F. Wells, University of California, Los Angeles

2 days ago

You likely have genes that affect how well your medications work – testing for them could improve treatment -- Philip Empey, University of Pittsburgh

2 days ago

New blood test claims to detect 50-plus cancers before symptoms – but there's no evidence it can reduce your risk of dying from cancer -- Andrew Wolf, University of Virginia

2 days ago

I'm an artist who works with glass – here's how the physics and chemistry of glassblowing work -- Suzanne Peck, Rochester Institute of Technology

4 days ago

Why do farts smell so bad? A microbiologist explains the odors brewing in your gut -- Brenda A. Wilson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4 days ago

'I heard a barnacle' – how paying attention to nature's background noise can reveal animal secrets -- Phil Starks, Tufts University

4 days ago

AI agents with friendly faces and adorable bodies can distract you from serious risks -- Ankolika De, Vanderbilt University and Jessica Maddox, University of Georgia

7 days ago

Why do blind people and musicians hear pitch better? New research suggests they have less internal noise -- Woon Ju Park, Georgia Institute of Technology

7 days ago

The hidden ways insects support animal life – from habitat to health – go way beyond being food -- Eliza Grames, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Chris Elphick, University of Connecticut, and Rob Cooke, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

7 days ago

Flesh-eating screwworm is spreading in the US, threatening livestock and wildlife – hunters can be the first line of defense -- Jacob Dykes, Mississippi State University and Eric Michel, Mississippi State University

7 days ago

NASA's Swift telescope has burned up, months after a robot sent to save it failed – here's why it's so hard to boost a satellite -- Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida

7 days ago

Latest Science and Technology articles

2 years ago

NASA's Swift Observatory has burned up in the atmosphere – the indispensable telescope helped astronomers track fast-moving events in space -- Mary Ogborn, Penn State

9 days ago

How space weather powers auroras in the sky and threatens power grids on the ground -- Sanjay Kumar, University of Michigan and Mark Moldwin, University of Michigan

9 days ago

Figuring out where cosmic neutrinos come from is tricky - radio telescopes could help find where these 'ghost particles' originate -- Yjan Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

14 days ago

Falcon 9 ushered in the modern space economy – retiring it could leave the industry vulnerable -- Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan

16 days ago

NASA's Mars orbiter fleet is getting old – here's how that could affect future exploration -- Margaret Landis, Arizona State University

25 days ago

More articles about space

2 years ago

Meta's $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal -- Emma L. Briant, University of Notre Dame

9 days ago

How to prepare your online life for your death -- Jenny Tang, Carnegie Mellon University and Xiaoyuan (Owen) Wu, Carnegie Mellon University

10 days ago

Driverless 18-wheelers are on a few highways, but widespread use is a long way down the road -- Shannon Roberts, UMass Amherst

15 days ago

How should AI be regulated? Follow the harm -- Sylvia Lu, American University

17 days ago

PHP is in the foundation of 70% of websites – here's what it is and why a flaw in the software is a major hacking threat -- Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University

21 days ago

More articles about artificial intelligence

2 years ago

We discovered an organism that lives at blistering temperatures – but what allows it to take the heat? -- Kristen Skruber, Gonzaga University

14 days ago

Earwax is both slippery and sticky – this weird combo might lead to safer insect repellents -- David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology

15 days ago

Viruses obey the laws of physics – studying how can help researchers understand why they infect people differently and lead to better treatments -- Tori Russell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Karin Wuertz-Kozak, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Maureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology

17 days ago

Ancestors all around – millions of dead people linger in Americans' memories -- Emily Smith-Greenaway, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Ashton Verdery, Penn State

21 days ago

Hooked on tuna: People have been harvesting these ocean predators for 44,000 years -- Emma Elliott Smith, Smithsonian Institution; University of New Mexico and Torben Rick, Smithsonian Institution

29 days ago

Ancient people relied on genetic variation already present in wild plants to domesticate crops like rice and corn -- Ornob Alam, New York University

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I teach doctors how to interpret test results – and the labels 'normal' and 'abnormal' often hide what matters most -- Amiran Baduashvili, University of Colorado Anschutz

1 month ago

Your cells keep a record of every workout you've ever done – and those gains persist even after a break from exercise -- Diego Hernandez-Saavedra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Yi-Heng (Hank) Huang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Horror films exploit how human vision works to deliver movies' best scares -- Arryn Robbins, University of Richmond

23 days ago

Optogenetics wins the Nobel – one neuroscience breakthrough in a line of technological innovations helping scientists map and control the brain -- Kimberlee D'Ardenne, Arizona State University

1 month ago

AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science's role in its origin story helps explain why -- Michael Hout, New Mexico State University and Arryn Robbins, University of Richmond

1 month ago

Dozens of men failed to stop an alleged gang rape at Cornell – here's the misperception that keeps bystanders from intervening and how to short-circuit it -- Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College

1 month ago

More articles about psychology

2 years ago

Why do galaxies rotate? -- Edwin Alexani, Rochester Institute of Technology and Michael Zemcov, Rochester Institute of Technology

11 days ago

Why do people still get polio in some countries and not in others? -- Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago

18 days ago

Why haven't farm animals evolved against humans? A biologist explains why there won't be a chicken uprising anytime soon -- Alida de Flamingh, University of Tennessee

25 days ago

How much rain can a hurricane make, and does the storm size matter? -- Zachary Handlos, Georgia Institute of Technology

25 days ago

More Curious Kids articles

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Why the Microsoft 365 outage is different and why it takes so long to restore email services -- Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University

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Mosquitoes are picky eaters – we studied 3 common South Florida species to learn why they like some people more than others -- Kaylee Marrero, Florida International University and Matthew DeGennaro, Florida International University

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