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

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Why calling for a 'kill switch' is the wrong way to think about reining in AI -- Trent Wintermeier, The University of Texas at Austin

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

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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

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Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth's rotation, but their time is now over – here's why -- Vahe Peroomian, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Cystic fibrosis patients got their 'miracle drug' thanks to federal research funding – new Trump administration rules may cut future miracles short -- Fred D. Ledley, Bentley University

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As AI takes on more tasks, what happens when people have to jump in to clean up after it? -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University

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Using light to control brain cells – neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth explains how he made his Nobel-winning discovery -- Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University

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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

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Physics Nobel highlights Antarctica's role in exploring the cosmos -- Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University and Jean de Pomereu, University of Cambridge

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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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IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny 'ghost particles' – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space -- Doug Cowen, Penn State

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I'm a physicist who worked on the Nobel-winning neutrino search – here's how a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice became a telescope for ghost particles from space -- Tyce DeYoung, Michigan State University

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Starship's first orbital flight put its heat shield to the test – how it fares could determine if SpaceX's vision is possible -- Sven Bilén, Penn State

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An overlooked era of cosmology is stealing the show in the quest to understand the cosmos -- Cara Giovanetti, University of California, Berkeley

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Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study -- Jesse Liu, New York University

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'Make this face look gay': AI models alter faces to give people stereotypical 'gay,' 'straight' or 'criminal' features -- Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Florida's limited ban on Flock cameras only scratches the surface of widespread surveillance concerns -- Abigail Hall, University of Tampa

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Want to use AI to improve your work? Have it disagree with you -- Monideepa Tarafdar, UMass Amherst

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As AI political deepfakes go viral, lawmakers struggle to keep up – 2 states' laws show limits of what they can do -- Stefani Langehennig, University of Denver

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Trump frames unregulated AI as a way to keep ahead of China – but in fact, it harms US national security -- Stephen Collins, Kennesaw State 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

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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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Why old dogs might be able to teach Alzheimer's researchers new tricks -- Julie Moreno, Colorado State University

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Hunter-gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated -- Duncan Stibbard Hawkes, Baylor University and Christopher von Rueden, University of Richmond

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Too many males to choose from can overwhelm female frogs – and change who gets to mate -- Claire Therese Hemingway, University of Tennessee; Smithsonian Institution

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Hibernating bacteria can invade hospitals and survive outer space – but their high energy bill is a weakness that scientists can strike -- Canan Karakoç, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Is science journalism dying? Comparing a 'science crash' 40 years ago to today -- Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University and Chris Mooney, University of Tennessee

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Why an overactive immune system attacks the bodies of people with lupus but still leaves them vulnerable to infection -- Andrew Monteith, University of Tennessee

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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

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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

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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

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Why does your brain mix up memories? A new study examines how memories are misplaced in your brain's filing cabinets -- Ian McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York

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

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Why can't people regenerate limbs like salamanders? -- Junsu Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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What was the original first-person shooter? Two largely forgotten computer games from the 1970s ushered in the genre -- Mark J. P. Wolf, Concordia University Wisconsin

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What happened at the end of the Revolutionary War? Here's how Americans set up a brand-new country once the fighting ended -- Sandra Slater, College of Charleston

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For centuries, bird migration was a mystery – a tech revolution is changing that, and could help save these amazing creatures -- Peter P. Marra, Georgetown University and Amy L. Scarpignato, Georgetown University

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