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World off-track on nearly every food system goal, latest assessment reveals
The latest study from the Food Systems Countdown Initiative (FSCI) reveals the stark reality of where global food systems transformation sta
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When can your child stay home alone? Neuroscience suggests we're asking the wrong question
Would you trust your child to stay home alone? For many caregivers, the answer depends on age. But when it comes to safety and independence,
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Social media analysis offers businesses a new way to forecast feature demand
Social media has become an important source of information for consumers making purchasing decisions, with prior research finding that more
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Gold nanoclusters could help break down Alzheimer's amyloid plaques
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative brain disorder characterized by progressive memory loss and a decline in other mental functions.
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Survey finds social work needs clearer ethical guidance for AI use
Much like the automobile a century earlier, generative artificial intelligence has arrived in society with significant concerns. Just as cit
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Poor genetic health threatens many species—but it's fixable
By the early 1990s, there were only around 20 Florida panthers left on the planet.
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Young people more likely to hold hostile attitudes toward women, study finds
Young people are significantly more likely than older generations to hold hostile attitudes toward women, and these attitudes are being refl
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Two eyeless shrimp-like species found in Japan's groundwater are new to science
Researchers have identified two new species in the genus Bogidiella, small shrimp-like amphipods that live in subterranean aquatic environme
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Dark matter may be gravitationally lensing a likely source of cosmic neutrinos
Astronomers have discovered that the jet of a distant blazar has been gravitationally lensed by an unseen source of dark matter. Led by Silk
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Miami's largest tree canopies deliver most cooling, monitoring data suggests
People rarely give much thought to the trees around them—until there aren't any. Not when they're driving past them. Not when they're scroll
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Study shows university's advising model boosts international students
Ling LeBeau and Steve Schaffling spent five years building and refining a framework for supporting international students at Syracuse Univer
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New model measures full economic value of accurate hurricane forecasts
When it comes to the cost of a bad forecast, researchers have gone beyond damaged buildings and vehicles to calculate the cost of injuries,
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Is bird flu infecting humans? How would we know?
Bird flu is circulating among birds on the Australian mainland. So, with the confirmed number of detections growing, you may be wondering ab
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The brightened night sky nobody actually wanted
A new paper has put hard numbers on a plan that's been rattling around the astronomy community for a while now—a California company called R
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Amber fossil reveals firefly relative with unprecedented antennae
Insects rely on a wide range of strategies to sense their surroundings and communicate with their peers. Fireflies (Lampyridae) and some rel
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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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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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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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