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Before COVID-19, children's likelihood of coming in contact with the US child welfare system had already decreased
A new study shows that fewer children had encounters with the U.S. child welfare system in the years before the start of the COVID-19 pandem
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How 35% of US employees are left on the margins
You've heard of gig workers, freelancers and temporary employees. But do you know about marginal workers? Accounting for about one in six U.
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NASA's LRO images Falcon 9 crater on moon, learns new details
Between Aug. 11–12, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the moon. The crater formed Aug
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Existing drug could treat invasive canine oral tumors
A benign but invasive canine oral cancer is often mistaken for a similar malignant one, leading to misdiagnoses in close to a third of cases
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Drug policies should communicate drug safety over user punishment
A new study found that people's beliefs about the harmfulness of an illegal substance are stronger predictors of support for both punishment
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How can AI help identify pain when animals can't tell us they're suffering?
A new AI framework, known as SHIC-XE, has been developed to detect signs of pain in horses from video analysis while providing stable, anato
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Curved surfaces reshape active materials, localizing vibrations near defects
Many materials, both living and engineered, are powered from within. Scientists have thoroughly investigated how such 'active' materials ope
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A single asteroid impact may explain the appearance of Mars' moon Deimos
Deimos, the smaller and outermost of Mars' two moons, is roughly oval in shape and has a deep depression at its south pole. Unlike its heavi
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How workplace conflict expression shapes team performance
Workplace conflict has played a foundational role in theories about how people interact on the job. In a recent paper, researchers developed
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'Hidden stars' suggest that distant galaxies are much more massive than they appear
Astronomers have discovered that the most massive galaxies in the early universe contain far more small stars than expected. As a result, th
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Hidden losses of amphibians and dragonflies in Berlin's municipal water supply
A new study led by researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin shows that Berlin's dragonfly populations have declined by more than half
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'Switchable' smart gel may pave way for next-gen drug delivery and sensing tech
University of Birmingham scientists have developed a new material that changes from a gel to a liquid-like state under ultraviolet light and
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Plants could transform how scientists measure the climate benefits of tidal marshes
Growing up in New Jersey, Emily Wilson regularly passed tidal marshes without giving them much thought. They were part of the coastal landsc
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Deep-learning approach rapidly predicts where metals bind within proteins
In the living world, roughly a third of all proteins we know rely on metals to function. Zinc helps enzymes break down molecules, iron helps
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Grasshopper-inspired AI boosts emergency resource prediction
A hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) system modeled on grasshopper behavior could help allocate medical resources, transport and power duri
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Working from home should be a right, not a reward
The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting in September 2026. But just weeks away from its
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Secrets of a mystery mammal from Patagonia revealed at last
Eight years of painstaking research on the virtually unknown Wolffsohn's viscacha have helped to shine the spotlight on this super-rare Sout
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Sound-based traps reveal how fragile biomolecular droplets move, merge and change stiffness
Being able to measure something plays a vital role in our ability to understand many phenomena. But measuring can often affect what we are t
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Scientists 'see' nanoscale forces, providing evidence of electric fields at the air‑water interface
Bubbles are round, and we know surface tension does that. But squeeze that gas-liquid boundary into a space only a few tens of nanometers wi
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Moving nitrogen within pyridine opens a new path for molecular editing
A research team has developed a new molecular editing strategy that can directly convert pyridine compounds into their positional isomers. I
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Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there's a way to counter it
Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There's nothing to be done—we're doomed! Sound familiar
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Genome-folding complex reveals a mechanism that helps establish neuron identity
A functional nervous system depends on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. As developing organisms build their nervous systems, their ne
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The global race to make a practical quantum computer just took a big leap forward
In the global race to build bigger and better quantum computers, researchers have taken a step forward. A new machine called Helios is radic
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Experiment shows how AI discoveries can shape human cultural evolution
Artificial intelligence can develop solutions that humans would be unlikely to discover on their own. But what happens when machines do more
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