AI is making reading books feel obsolete, and students have a lot to lose
A perfect storm is brewing for reading.
Education
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4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand the duty to disobey illegal orders
With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard—along with federal law enforcement—into Washington, D.C. to fight crime, President Donald Trump edged U.S. troops closer to the kind of military-civilian ...
Political science
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Spiderweb silks and architectures reveal millions of years of evolutionary ingenuity
Have you ever walked face-first into a spiderweb while on a hike? Or swept away cobwebs in your garage?
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2025
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What does pocket money teach children? It can offer social as well as financial education
If you're a parent, the summer holidays and approaching new school year might have you questioning your children's access to pocket money—how much they get, how much they're spending and what they're spending money on.
Social Sciences
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Targeted cultivation strategies boost health-promoting compounds in red cabbage
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) investigated the factors that regulate seasonal variation in the nutritional quality of red cabbage. They analyzed the influence of light and temperature ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 13, 2025
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The power of poop: How human waste can boost crop yields and cut greenhouse gas emissions
Human waste usually gets flushed away, but instead of going down the toilet, it can help the planet and solve global fertilizer shortages, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Using sound to remember quantum information 30 times longer
While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 or 1, quantum computers are based on qubits. These can have a state that is simultaneously both ...
Quantum Physics
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'Essentiality' scan reveals what Mycoplasma pneumoniae truly needs to survive
Researchers have spent years taking apart one of the world's simplest microbes, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, piece by piece, and created a detailed list of what molecular parts the living cell can and cannot do without, knowledge ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 13, 2025
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Rapidly changing river patterns found in High Mountain Asia pose challenge for region's energy future
An international team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has tracked changes in more than 114,000 rivers in High Mountain Asia over a 15-year period. The paper, published in AGU Advances, reported ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2025
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Biological process underlying coho salmon die-offs unlocked
For years, scientists at Washington State University's Puyallup Research & Extension Center have been working to untangle a mystery: Why do coho salmon in Puget Sound creeks seem to suffocate after rainstorms—rising to the ...
Plants & Animals
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