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Why are some animals considered 'pests'? It comes down to culture and convenience - Elan Abrell, Wesleyan University

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New genetic approaches raise hopes for restoring the American chestnut to its former glory -- Steve Strauss, Oregon State University

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Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks – a growing space junk problem will make doing so more important -- Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida

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More testosterone won't make a better soldier or a tougher man – aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around -- Adam Stanaland, University of Richmond

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Legally or not, the US government is controlling global access to the world's most powerful AI -- João Marinotti, Indiana University

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Why employers still place a premium on people skills, not AI, when they make hiring decisions -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University and Cuneyt Gozu, Drexel University

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How hot does it get in the desert? A climate scientist explains its blazing heat -- Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton

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Many cancer survivors have impairments that make using mobile devices and websites difficult -- Rachel F. Adler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Devorah Kletenik, Brooklyn College

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Bees of many species contain tiny magnetic particles – suggesting they may have an innate magnetic compass for navigation -- Laura Russo, University of Tennessee

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Keeping drugs free of contaminants – pharmaceutical manufacturers filter medications through tiny pores to keep them sterile and safe -- Shreya Kapila, Penn State

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Screen time guidelines for kids and adolescents have shifted as research paints a more nuanced picture -- Gabriel E. Hales, Michigan State University

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Building a long-term base on the Moon will require extensive planning – a planetary geologist describes the considerations that go into it -- Clive Neal, University of Notre Dame

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What are supermassive black holes? Everything you need to know – and what astronomers are still learning – about these mysterious objects -- Mary Ogborn, Penn State

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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

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

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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

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Why you let down your guard on ads when scrolling on social media -- Matthew Pittman, University of Tennessee

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

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

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

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Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change allowing pilots to fly them out of sight -- Agamemnon Crassidis, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Can Ozempic prevent cancer? A doctor explains why the headlines are easy to misread -- Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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 is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the Sun? -- Vahe Peroomian, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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

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Can you make a black hole in a laboratory? -- Stephen DiKerby, Michigan State 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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What science loses when T. rex becomes a trophy -- Kristi Curry Rogers, Macalester College

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What does it mean to be 'quantum'? A physicist explains the basics behind Einstein's spooky actions at a distance -- Aldo Romero, West Virginia University

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