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You know that feeling you get when you walk into a classroom and see someone else's stuff on your desk? OK, sure, there are no assigned seats, but you've been sitting at the same desk since the first day and everyone knows it. So why does the guy who sits next to you put his phone, his book, his cha...
If you like to take in a show, but don’t want to leave the comfort of your own home, Mother Nature might be able to help. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center reports that a geomagnetic storm on December 9 could make the aurora borealis, or northern l...
It’s hard to believe it’s already time for the season 28 finale of The Voice on NBC. Coaches Reba McEntire, Niall Horan, Snoop Dogg, and Michael Bublé have worked hard all season long to make their teams strong. There were devastating cuts along the way and lots of tears. But these coaches know the ...
At a regional hospital, a cardiac patient’s lab results sit behind layers of encryption, accessible to his surgeon but shielded from those without strictly need-to-know status. Across the street at a credit union, a small business owner anxiously awaits the all-clear for a wire transfer, unaware tha...
Professor of Psychology Richard J. McNally.Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Science & Tech Science needs contrarians, and contrarians need support Institute of Quantitative Social Science initiative tailored to researchers exploring provocative ideas Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent Dec...
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Chicago/H. McCall Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five times highe...
5 Min Read NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views of the 60-foot vacuum sphere in the which the plume-surface interaction testing is happening. Credits: NASA/Joe Atkinson In March, NASA researchers employed a new camera system to capture data imagery of the interaction betwee...
2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA engineer Hanbong Lee demonstrates capabilities to manage busy urban airspace traffic during a recent simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is help...
What if your next vacation turned into a masterclass in conservation? Across India are stays that go beyond bed and breakfast; here, windows open into the wild. Far off the tourist trail, these stays border reserves and sanctuaries, where they share ground with the wilderness. Their doors open out i...
People talk over music, clattering plates, and dozens of overlapping conversations in crowded rooms. For many, tuning into one voice takes mental effort. For people with hearing challenges, that effort can be overwhelming. A group of researchers at the University of Washington now says it has built ...
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Researchers found that hydrogen sulfide, the chemical that gives farts their rotten-egg smell, may help protect the aging brain from cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's disease. While the idea of benefiting from one's own flatulence may sound absurd, the study takes it quite seriously.
Swimming pools can provide endless hours of fun in the sun, but they can also be extremely dangerous for young children who haven't learned to swim. According to the World Health Organization, around 300,000 people die from drowning each year, and about a quarter of those drowning victims are childr...
When U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in late 2025 and dismissed climate change as a “con job”, the scientific community reacted with alarm. Months earlier, The Guardian had reported that his anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3 million additional deaths g...
Climate change—including high temperatures and heat waves—has been shown to pose serious risks to the environment, food systems, and human health, but new research finds that it may also lead to delays in early childhood development. Published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, the s...
When Hoda Kotb left the Today Show in September 2024, it was deeply affected. She and Jenna Bush Hager worked side by side for years, so finding a replacement would not be easy. For the past year, the fourth hour of Today, dubbed Today with Jenna & Friends, has had 60 co-hosts as the team searched f...
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On January 7, actress and TV personality Ricki Lake was one of the thousands of people who tragically lost their homes in the wildfires that swept across Los Angeles. Nestled near the Pacific Palisades, her beautiful home was completely destroyed by ravaging flames. Writing about it on Instagram, La...
Teaching children how to tie their shoes can be frustrating for both parent and child. Usually, adults try to turn it into a fun game that uses the imagination to convert the laces into bunny ears, roller coasters, or rocket ships. But what if tying your shoes could be as entertaining as a magic tri...
A Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their “freewheeling” lifestyles. Described in the journal PLOS One, female Nazca boobies (Sula granti) will openly mate with potentially dozens of males before settling on a parenting partner. What’s more, the conspicuous behavior doesn’t appear...
Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one that supports symbiosis. Early success in barley hints that cereals may eventually be engineered to f...
Engineers at the University of Utah have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors and training an AI neural network on natural grasping movements, the team created a hand that grips more intuitively and securely. Study participan...
