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Can dogs help teens cope with peer stress?
About one in 10 teenagers experiences social anxiety—persistent and disruptive worries about being judged by classmates and other peers. In
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Weightlifting makes older women leaner, stronger and more mobile
Lifting at least 50 kilograms twice a week improved older women's muscle mass, mobility and balance
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Preservation order protects 300-year-old oak
Six tree preservation orders are issued to protect important trees across a borough in Devon.
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Quantum computing may be facing a replication crisis
A review of thousands of scientific papers about quantum computers finds that most don’t provide codes that can be tested on independent dev
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The Nigerian fishing community being eaten up by the Atlantic
The beach shrinks every year in Ayetoro, in southern Nigeria, and what is left is peppered with the remains of homes swallowed by the ocean—
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Hawaii recovery efforts begin as Lala is downgraded, moves west
Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday as Hurricane Lala, which was downgraded to a tropical storm, rolled past Hawaii's Big Island and dumpe
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Rogue hacking AIs have changed the cybersecurity landscape
Attackers with no technical skills can now use AI models to find and exploit loopholes quickly and they can deploy them on a massive scale,
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Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected
An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, chal
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Can you solve it? A new goat for puzzledom’s GOAT
Take this puzzle by the hornsToday’s puzzle is a new twist on The Monty Hall problem, arguably the greatest maths puzzle of all time.(Accord
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Animals have been eating nature’s original bioplastic for millions of years
Nature invented biodegradable plastic long before humans did—and animals may have been feeding on it for hundreds of millions of years. Rese
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Measures in place to protect historic oak tree
The tree is thought to date back to the time of Sir Isaac Newton, who lived nearby.
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'I have never seen the pond so low in 17 years'
James Herd, who works for Surrey Wildlife Trust, says everyone needs to prepare for extreme weather.
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Starwatch: Vega the bright star will light the way to the constellation of Lyra
Lyra, the lyre, represents the harp played by the Greek poet OrpheusWe turn our attention this week to one of the sky’s smallest constellati
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A little-known protein may be fueling Alzheimer’s — and scientists found a way to block it
An experimental Alzheimer’s compound prevented damaging protein clumps from forming in the brains of mice, helping nerve cells survive longe
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Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests
South America was a frightening place during the Miocene. More than 10 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of the continent, home to
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Flightless beetles evolved distinct snail-hunting shapes on Japan's largest island
Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories of evolution. The ocean restricts movement among islands, allowing isolated population
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Radio telescopes help scientists map molecules in space and uncover where and how stars form
You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact that elements heav
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Brief firearm safety talks more than double openness to out-of-home storage
A brief chat about firearm safety can sharply increase willingness among gun owners to consider temporarily storing their firearms outside t
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Hurricane Lala pulls away from Hawaii's Big Island
Hurricane Lala was pulling away from Hawaii's Big Island early Sunday as heavy rain and strong winds struck the U.S. Pacific state and offic
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Belgium races to tame huge wildfire creeping toward Germany
Water-bombing aircraft and farmers' tractors joined forces Sunday to help firefighters tame Belgium's largest modern-day wildfire, which has
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Japan aims for the moons of Mars
Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Ea
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A small squeeze reveals new clues about an unusual kind of magnet
Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual properties at the sa
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Gene-edited beagles produce no detectable major dog allergen, early tests find
Humans love dogs, but petting them can leave some people sneezing and wheezing. About 15% of the world's population lives with a dog allergy
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Phytophthora dieback linked to habitat loss and lower digging activity among quendas in Western Australia
A new study from Murdoch University has found that the introduced plant disease Phytophthora dieback is indirectly hindering quendas in West
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