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They're content creators with thousands of adoring fans. So why do they feel so terrible?

Other
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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum—a biologist explains how it's multidimensional

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Environment
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How does wildfire smoke affect the economy?

1 hours ago
Earth Sciences
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Topography controls how mountains respond to large earthquakes

Social Sciences
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Digital spirituality grows, but young people still rely on family and faith leaders

Economics & Business
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Premium customer, quickest service? Not so fast, at least in a world of agentic AI-driven services

2 hours ago
Cell & Microbiology
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Some bacteria build internal 'power cables' to extend respiration beyond the cell membrane

Ecology
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New set of international rules needed to protect health of fishing stocks, study shows

Superconductivity
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Krypton gas emerges as a new ingredient for quantum computing

Education
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Research helps NYC students aim higher in public high school applications

Social Sciences
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Artificial intelligence acts as an 'ideological chameleon' and may deepen political polarization

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Environment
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US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging

Cell & Microbiology
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Largest catalog yet of how human cells read DNA shows how chemical marks alter genetic instructions

Earth Sciences
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Lost 'mega-escarpment' across ancient USA may explain Grand Canyon's missing billion years

Economics & Business
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New study links bad bosses with greater work intensity

Space Exploration
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Mars attacks: How much dust from the red planet is safe to breathe?

Astronomy
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Dying radio galaxies suggest a shorter, more dynamic afterlife for black hole jets

Earth Sciences
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How to better forecast once-in-a-millennium weather events

Environment
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Sustainable medical electronics can reduce environmental impact by up to 65%

Evolution
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Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries

Education
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Canada's AI strategy needs educators who feel prepared, not just trained

Environment
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Study suggests three-quarters of Indo-Pacific coral reefs could drown as sea levels rise

Earth Sciences
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Rare satellite data reveal major limits in flood models

Optics & Photonics
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New photonic crystal method improves single-photon sources for quantum networks

Social Sciences
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Before COVID-19, children's likelihood of coming in contact with the US child welfare system had already decreased

Social Sciences
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How 35% of US employees are left on the margins

Space Exploration
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NASA's LRO images Falcon 9 crater on moon, learns new details

Veterinary medicine
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Existing drug could treat invasive canine oral tumors

Social Sciences
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Drug policies should communicate drug safety over user punishment

Biotechnology
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How can AI help identify pain when animals can't tell us they're suffering?

Soft Matter
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Curved surfaces reshape active materials, localizing vibrations near defects

Planetary Sciences
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A single asteroid impact may explain the appearance of Mars' moon Deimos

Social Sciences
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How workplace conflict expression shapes team performance

Astronomy
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'Hidden stars' suggest that distant galaxies are much more massive than they appear

Ecology
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Hidden losses of amphibians and dragonflies in Berlin's municipal water supply

Polymers
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'Switchable' smart gel may pave way for next-gen drug delivery and sensing tech

Earth Sciences
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Plants could transform how scientists measure the climate benefits of tidal marshes

Biochemistry
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Deep-learning approach rapidly predicts where metals bind within proteins

Environment
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Grasshopper-inspired AI boosts emergency resource prediction

6 hours ago
Economics & Business
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Working from home should be a right, not a reward

Plants & Animals
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Secrets of a mystery mammal from Patagonia revealed at last

Soft Matter
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Sound-based traps reveal how fragile biomolecular droplets move, merge and change stiffness

Nanophysics
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Scientists 'see' nanoscale forces, providing evidence of electric fields at the air‑water interface

Biochemistry
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Moving nitrogen within pyridine opens a new path for molecular editing

Environment
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Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there's a way to counter it

Cell & Microbiology
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Genome-folding complex reveals a mechanism that helps establish neuron identity

Quantum Physics
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The global race to make a practical quantum computer just took a big leap forward

Social Sciences
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Experiment shows how AI discoveries can shape human cultural evolution

Optics & Photonics
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Physicists entangle quantum memories across a record-breaking 420 km

Cell & Microbiology
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Structural snapshots reveal key steps in switching on DNA replication

Political science
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Right-leaning Canadians are losing trust in Canada's electoral process, study finds

Plants & Animals
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An African bat overlooked for two centuries is confirmed in Europe

Economics & Business
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Q&A: By analyzing media coverage, researchers connect public sentiment hedge fund returns

Plants & Animals
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Most mammal species discovered in the Global South since 1990 end up in Northern collections

Ecology
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A new mathematical tool to uncover 'who eats whom' in nature

Cell & Microbiology
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Building real-time control for engineered biological systems

Ecology
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Lost 'botanical hotspot' identified at University of York campus

Plants & Animals
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From the coasts to the plains, bird flu could threaten not just birds—but their homes

Analytical Chemistry
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End-to-end design creates two low-cost materials to capture methane

Ecology
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AI and 8 million digitized plant specimens reveal how the climate is changing nature in large parts of the world

Cell & Microbiology
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Cells remodel actin normally without coronins, challenging textbook view

Ecology
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Australian beekeepers can't tackle Varroa mite alone. Here's how we can help

Education
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Oral exams are making a comeback to stop AI cheating. But they have their own problems

Polymers
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Novel plastic turns into a gas when heated—then reforms once cooled

Plants & Animals
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Fifteen years of data link plastic pollution to seabird population losses

9 hours ago
Earth Sciences
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Yellowstone's past droughts may signal less geyser activity and more wildfires

Space Exploration
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NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will feature a revolutionary antenna design

Ecology
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How healthy are our coral reefs? Researchers have built a tool to help find out

Plants & Animals
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Five new wasp species discovered in Cyprus, including one named after Aphrodite

Cell & Microbiology
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Robotic ocean glider reveals giant phytoplankton chains in the Mediterranean Sea

Environment
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Plastic-webbed drifters track Sargassum mats for weeks or months at sea

Earth Sciences
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Layered rock in India shows potential signs of microbial life dating to 3.5 billion years ago

Biotechnology
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The use of AI in biotechnology is changing faster than the rules governing either technology

Archaeology
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New bone analysis challenges long-held theory on farming's arrival in Ireland and Great Britain

Ecology
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How only a few tree species drive Amazon forest recovery

Earth Sciences
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Fiber-optic cable reveals hidden crevasses that could destabilize glaciers

Social Sciences
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Young people in public housing less likely to be involved in crime

Evolution
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Ancient Jomon DNA reveals a hidden Ice Age survival genetic toolkit

Economics & Business
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AI should transform the strategy process—but never make the final call, researcher argues

Space Exploration
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ISS hosts first spacewalk by a Frenchwoman

Analytical Chemistry
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Dynamic surface reconstruction explains how copper sulfide catalysts tune CO₂ reduction

Social Sciences
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Boys are rarely taught to be caring. If they were, we could better prevent domestic violence

Social Sciences
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Young men are 'voicemaxxing' to sound more attractive. But women aren't impressed

Plants & Animals
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Double spiral inside narwhal tusks may explain their resistance to bending

Social Sciences
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Why Korean 'aegyo' speech sounds cute: Adults raise vocal resonances to sound younger and smaller

General Physics
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Loud snoring—simulation reveals the physical mechanism that keeps so many of us awake at night

Plants & Animals
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'Snooping' on dolphins offers acoustic clues to hotspots for food and friends

Ecology
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More than 5,000 little penguins will be vaxxed against bird flu. How will this protect them?

12 hours ago
Social Sciences
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Retro phone trend reveals growing desire to disconnect

General Physics
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Long-range magnetic interactions govern how a ferrimagnet approaches its phase transition

Political science
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The link between incoherent beliefs and conspiracism

Ecology
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Tomato roots reveal hidden steps in 400-million-year-old fungal partnership

Condensed Matter
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Unusual superconductivity could emerge in valley-imbalanced rhombohedral graphene

Astronomy
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Webb captures clearest image yet of the Lion Nebula

Earth Sciences
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AI reconstructs hidden history of Earth's mantle flow from surface clues

Earth Sciences
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Drier soils may turn late summer into prolonged extreme heat

Cell & Microbiology
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New gene activity tool measures biological age of cells and screens aging-related compounds

Earth Sciences
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Aerial imagery maps hurricane wind damage and shows stronger building codes work

Plants & Animals
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Distinct neurons drive mice's social sounds and squeaks

Planetary Sciences
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Ruby-forming mineral found by Mars rover hints at violent impacts

Social Sciences
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Caregivers are active agents in their infants' learning, but interactions differ across cultures

Astronomy
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Nuking an asteroid on short notice could save us

Quantum Physics
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A new approach to building noise-resistant quantum sensors

Environment
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Soot spikes from traffic and holiday bonfires emerge in Addis Ababa air record

Social Sciences
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School's back, stress doesn't have to be

Plants & Animals
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'Ecological engineers' an existential threat to wildlife of iconic wetland

Plants & Animals
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How body size and habitat shape the vocal repertoires of primates

Plants & Animals
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How tomato 'golden hour' research could help crops survive heat waves and drought

Ecology
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Whales spark joy in New York but face threats from boat traffic

Environment
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Two largest U.S. reservoirs hit record lows amid Western drought

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Environment
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Make it rain: Indonesia chases clouds to stem El Niño fires

Environment
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Each degree of warming could add a month of intolerable heat for 1 billion people

Environment
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A looming rock collapse threatens a Swiss village as thawing permafrost destabilizes the Alps

Archaeology
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Ancient Egyptian tomb shows how burial trends changed over hundreds of years

Social Sciences
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If your career feels chaotic, try this research-based 'workout routine'