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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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Imaginary research abstracts help anxious writers
Two academics in the UK created something unexpected. Kay Guccione at the University of Glasgow and Matthew Cheeseman at the University of Derby started a workshop. 1] Their goal was simple: introduce creative writing...
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542Science
Gifted children grow into successful adults
For decades, a persistent cultural narrative held that gifted children were destined for unhappy, unbalanced adult lives. The pressure of early exceptionalism, many worried, would leave them socially isolated and...
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543Science
Sodium Battery Outruns Lithium in Extreme Cold
The lithium ion battery has dominated the modern world for decades. It powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops, and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy storage banks. But a new...
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544Science
Rigetti hype may outrun commercial reality
Quantinuum's long awaited initial public offering has injected a fresh wave of optimism into the quantum computing sector, effectively changing how investors evaluate companies like Rigetti Computing. Before this IPO,...
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545Science
Nasdaq-100 inclusion historically leads to underperformance
When a newly public company joins the Nasdaq 100, the path has historically been clear but slow Standard procedure demanded a three month waiting period after a stock's initial public offering. Companies also had to...
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546Science
Researcher regrows his thymus to challenge aging
In 1996, cryobiologist Gregory Fahy walked into his physician's office and convinced the doctor to prescribe him a month's supply of growth hormone. 2] His reasoning rested on a single study in rats the injections, he...
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547Science
Ebola outbreak tests global health response
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda began with a delay in detection. Health officials now believe the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus was probably spreading as early as February...
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Children Now Veto Boring Family Vacation Destinations
Think of vacation planning like a family dinner menu. For decades, parents chose the main course and children ate what was served. Now the kids are writing the menu themselves. A recent Mastercard Travel Trendline...
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549Science
AI shifts zero-day economics to favor attackers
For years, zero day vulnerabilities were treated as precious cyber weapons. They were rare, difficult to find, and required deep expertise in software behavior. A single zero day could take weeks or months of manual...
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550Science
Paint-on ink creates wearable health sensors
Painting a star on a child's cheek and painting a working electrode on a forearm seem like two completely different acts. One is decoration. The other is medicine. At Pennsylvania State University, engineers have merged...
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551Science
Why Praying for Rain Statistically Appears to Work
For centuries, communities in China turned to dragons when drought struck In Murcia, Spain, the Catholic Church has held special prayers for rain over the past seven hundred years. Both traditions seem to work rain...
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Guimaraes proves green living needs no sacrifice
The simplest explanation for why we cannot save the planet is that sacrifice is required. It feels intuitive: if everyone consumed less, the Earth would suffer less. But the city of Guimarães in northern Portugal has...
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