Temporarily deactivating Facebook or Instagram can improve emotional well-being, according to the largest experimental study on the effects of social media abstention conducted in partnership with Meta.
Social Sciences
May 1, 2025
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The Colorado June air was thick with summer heat. Mosquitoes rose in clouds around us, testing our resolve while we gathered our cameras and sensors. We walked into the wetland, down the unmarked path until the cattails rose ...
Plants & Animals
May 1, 2025
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Looking around, you might not realize it, but corn is everywhere. In one form or another, it's in the cereals in your cupboard, the cosmetics and medicines in your bathroom, the kibble in your pet's food bowl, and the gas ...
Biotechnology
May 1, 2025
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UC San Diego researchers say genetically-enhanced crops of plants featuring enlarged roots present an opportunity for society to achieve a needed drawdown of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2025
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As a descendant of an Indigenous Amazonian tribe, Maria Astolfi was concerned about research she conducted as a graduate student at UC Berkeley involving an extract of a plant long used for medicinal purposes by the Mapuche ...
Biotechnology
May 1, 2025
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Why do women earn less than men? The usual suspects—occupation, hours, experience—explain some of it. But a powerful, often overlooked reason is simply this: where women work. The companies that hire them play a huge role ...
Social Sciences
May 1, 2025
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The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the north, according to new research led by climate scientist Dr. Kevin Trenberth.
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2025
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Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers uncovered a mysterious feature within the remnant, nicknamed the "Green Monster," alongside a puzzling network of ejecta filaments forming a web of oxygen-rich material. ...
Astronomy
May 1, 2025
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The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are shifting.
Environment
May 1, 2025
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Terrorist attacks are more common during security and economic crises, but they decrease during humanitarian disasters.
Social Sciences
May 1, 2025
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