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Your memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong – we've been asking the same people what they remember for 25 years -- Elizabeth A. Phelps, Harvard University and William Hirst, The New School

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Decades after 9/11, toxic dust and PTSD may be accelerating brain aging among first responders -- Roberto Lucchini, Florida International University

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What the settlement left out: Meta can still collect data from kids - Randolph A Robinson II, University of Illinois Chicago

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Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks -- Shiladitya Banerjee, Georgia Institute of Technology

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American women in communities with ample broadband access lose less time waiting for services, reducing time poverty -- Mattia Caldarulo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andrea Hetling, Rutgers University, and Gregory Porumbescu, Rutgers University - Newark

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Space weather can cause both beautiful auroras and infrastructure challenges – 5 essential reads on protecting life and technology -- Mary Magnuson, The Conversation

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Do you need to worry about the Sun turning into a black hole? -- Anuradha Gupta, University of Mississippi

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People with Tourette syndrome, like Billie Eilish, use everything in their power to suppress tics – this exhausting process is key to treatment -- Michael Okun, University of Florida

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'Star Trek' and NASA have intertwined legacies – the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists -- Deana L. Weibel, Grand Valley State University

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Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds -- Stephanie Szarmach, Smithsonian Institution

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AI is helping ease competition for scarce space on the airwaves -- Aylin Yener, The Ohio State University

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Trump is proposing a US Space Academy – if created, it could blur the lines between NASA and the military -- Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University

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Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth – but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed? -- Margaret E. Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dayana Alagirova, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Nanyang Technological University

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NASA is gearing up to launch its next flagship space telescope – combining spy technology with sophisticated infrared detectors -- Don Figer, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room -- Ashwin R. Vasavada, NASA

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Radio telescopes help scientists map molecules in space and uncover where and how stars form -- Olivia Harper Wilkins, Dickinson College

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Essential digital technologies are critical infrastructure – they are not always built and managed that way -- Francine Berman, UMass Amherst

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Daejon Love case highlights online romance scams: Research reveals scammers' tactics – and how to defend against them -- Fangzhou Wang, University of Texas at Arlington

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Changes to Facebook and Instagram are key part of Meta's $17B settlement with the states over harm to teens -- Carolina Rossini, UMass Amherst

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Why social media algorithms send you posts you don't like -- Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, University of Michigan, and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

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An AI agent spent your money – can anyone prove you authorized it? -- Aashis Luitel, University of the Cumberlands

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Compared to driving, flying is extraordinarily safe – but why doesn't it feel that way? -- Mihhail Berezovski, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Alex Chaparro, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Caterpillar twitches in an ultraquiet chamber are helping biologists understand how these insects hear without ears -- Aishwarya Sriram, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Carol Miles, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Ronald Miles, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Sara Aghazadeh, Binghamton University, State University of New York

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Worms navigate narrow paths faster than wide ones – these findings could inform robot design -- K. R. Prathyusha, University of Colorado Boulder

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FDA approves breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival -- Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado Anschutz

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'Male' and 'female' plugs and connectors – gendered language for the ends of garden hoses, electrical cords and pipe fittings sparks debate -- Jo Mackiewicz, Iowa State University and Jordan Smith, University of Northern Colorado

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Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential -- Dannell D. Boatman, West Virginia University

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Quitting alcohol changes the brain and can increase the risk of compulsive drinking – new research in mice -- Danny G. Winder, UMass Chan Medical School and Marie Doyle, UMass Chan Medical School

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A lot of casual friends, or only a few you're really close with? New research questions that trade-off -- Jessica D. Ayers, Boise State University and Diego Guevara Beltran, University of Arizona

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I'm part of the team writing the next bible of psychiatry – for the first time, the DSM will use biology to understand mental disorders -- Anand Kumar, University of Illinois Chicago

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One of the most common brain disorders is one of the most misunderstood – how functional neurological disorder is both 'all in your head' and beyond it -- Mackenzi Moore, University of Colorado Anschutz

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain -- Hatim Sharif, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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A lack of pies for a pack of lies – what spoonerisms reveal about how the brain produces speech -- Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University

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What would you see if you had one eye on the back of your head and the other in the front? -- Abigail Witmer, The Ohio State University

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How do ice cubes cool a drink? -- Matthew Koss, College of the Holy Cross

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Can we remove or decrease spaces between atoms or molecules? -- Robin Macaluso, University of Texas at Arlington

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What makes muscles contract? A physiologist explains how muscles move -- Kiki Crawford, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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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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How does Salmonella contaminate everything under the sun? A food safety specialist explains how you can stop its spread -- Kimberly Baker, Clemson University

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