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Cacti spines, snake fangs, snail love darts – oh my! How function drives the evolution of nature's puncture tools - Philip Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Creating synthetic life in a lab? SpudCell falls short of the goal, but raises even more useful questions -- Tara Deans, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Ivermectin isn't a cancer miracle drug, but influencers claim otherwise – here's how to avoid sprinting past scientific evidence -- Dannell D. Boatman, West Virginia University

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Fishing for DNA – how a cup of river water can reveal secrets about human health, pollution and biodiversity -- Jenny Whilde, University of Florida

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Why are our fingers different lengths? -- Steven Lautzenheiser, University of Tennessee

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World Cup propels surveillance to new heights -- Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State

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Can you make a black hole in a laboratory? -- Stephen DiKerby, Michigan State University

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Supreme Court rules your cellphone location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment -- Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State

9 days ago

8 principles from human ecology can help AI work for human well-being -- Dipesh Navsaria, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lori DiPrete Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Soyeon Shim, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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14 days ago

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NASA announces its Artemis III crew, which will test important equipment and systems in Earth orbit and is testing public opinion -- Margaret Landis, Arizona State University

20 days ago

Asteroid or comet? Meteor or meteorite? How to identify and classify the rocks you see streaking through the sky -- Adam Lark, Hamilton College

22 days ago

Building data centers in space is an intriguing idea on paper, but major engineering challenges must be solved -- Sven Bilén, Penn State and Wangda Zuo, Penn State

21 days ago

Upcoming telescopes could shed light on dark matter – astronomers are looking for these 'fingerprints' of the elusive substance -- Marco Ajello, Clemson University and Christopher Karwin, Clemson University

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What 20 million bans reveal about the strain on Wikipedia's volunteers -- Ryan McGrady, UMass Amherst

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Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you -- Vijayan Asari, University of Dayton

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Your phone screen doesn't have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing -- Douglas Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of the Arts

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Privacy isn't dead – it's just that tech companies have made it inconvenient -- Sandra Matz, Columbia University

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The drawer problem: Why so many of us can't let go of our old electronics, and what we can do about it -- Eric Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology; Payam Saeedi, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Stacey Watson, University of Waterloo

21 days ago

Quantum sensors could spot hidden damage in the thousands of US bridges rated 'structurally deficient' -- Alex Krasnok, Florida International University

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Killing cancer requires immune cells to infiltrate tumors' hostile microenvironment – sugar shields can help them break in -- Charles J. Dimitroff, Florida International University and Lee Seng Lau, Florida International University

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Glucosamine supplements may speed memory loss from Alzheimer's, new research shows -- Ramon Sun, University of Florida

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HIV enters the brain and doesn't leave – paradoxically, drugs intended to reduce brain inflammation increase virus levels -- Smita S. Iyer, University of Pittsburgh

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Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history -- Sanaa El-Sayed, University of Michigan

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Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an 'undruggable' disease -- Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado Anschutz

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Kids learn to bully from adults' threats, manipulation and criticism – a child psychologist explains how parents can model better tactics -- Angela J. Narayan, University of Denver

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Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that's bad news for patience -- Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University

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Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist on three factors that make a paranormal experience more likely -- Melissa Maffeo, Wake Forest University

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Why do baseball players put a black mark under their eyes? -- Adam Annaccone, University of Texas at Arlington

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Who was the first transgender person? -- Ky Merkley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Nick Winters, Northwestern University

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What happens to debt when someone dies? -- James Malm, College of Charleston

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Civility requires the willingness to engage – a dispute with a neighbor revealed how much motivation matters -- Deborah Mower, University of Mississippi

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Biological age tests reveal what slows or hastens aging – but they're useful only for researchers, not consumers -- Idan Shalev, Penn State and Abner Apsley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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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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