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What kids are doing on tablets seems to matter more than how long they use them. PeopleImages/iStock via Getty Images

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Screen time guidelines for kids and adolescents have shifted as research paints a more nuanced picture

Staff Writer - July 19, 2026

Meeting data center power demands will mean building more transmission lines and acquiring more land to put them on. These lines are in California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

In quantum entanglement, you can learn something about one particle by observing the other in its pair, even across vast distances. koto_feja/E+ via Getty Images

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What does it mean to be ‘quantum’? A physicist explains the basics behind Einstein’s spooky actions at a distance

While there are benefits to personalized tutoring, the evidence isn’t clear that having AI tutors helps students learn better or faster. CreativaImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus

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Despite the growth of some AI schools like Alpha, research doesn’t show that AI tutors are better than human teachers

Colorado passed a landmark artificial intelligence law that was challenged in a federal lawsuit. AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images

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Why Colorado replaced its AI discrimination law with a transparency requirement that the feds might challenge anyway

Spacewalks are among the more dangerous activities associated with human spaceflight. Ignatiev/E+ via Getty Images

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Space travel comes with risk − and SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission...

Staff Writer - September 6, 2024

The angles and branches in this illustration of a chip are key to using terahertz waves for the next generation of high-speed wireless communications. Wenhao Wang, Guillaume Ducournau, and Ranjan Singh

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Chip that steers terahertz beams sets stage for ultrafast internet of...

Staff Writer - September 3, 2024

When the mom, dad or both parents drink, the health risks of alcohol extends to their future offspring. Robert Daly/OJO Images via Getty Images

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Drinking alcohol before conceiving a child could accelerate their aging –...

Staff Writer - August 30, 2024

An experimental aircraft like this solar-powered airship could someday play a role in providing internet access to rural areas or disaster zones. Thales Alenia Space via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

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A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne...

Staff Writer - August 26, 2024

The development of gene-editing technology has led to many ethical questions. PhonlamaiPhoto/iStock via Getty Images Plus

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Editing fetal genomes is on the horizon − a medical anthropologist...

Staff Writer - August 17, 2024

It’s not you: App privacy settings really can be complicated. Drazen Zigic/iStock via Getty Images

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Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy

Staff Writer - August 16, 2024

A bank of video monitors allows the police department in Albuquerque, N.M., to keep an eye on surveillance cameras throughout the city. AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan

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Real-time crime centers are transforming policing – a criminologist explains how...

Staff Writer - August 15, 2024

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How easy access to guns at home contributes to America’s youth...

Staff Writer - August 20, 2022

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The ‘Three Pure Ones,’ the deities considered the most pure representation of the Dao. Unknown author via Wikimedia Commons

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From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...

Staff Writer - July 6, 2026

Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....

Life went on in the late 18th century, regardless of your everyday ailments. Archive Photos/Getty Images

How did it feel to be an American colonist in 1776?...

July 2, 2026

People are often concerned about environmental risks lurking near their homes. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...

July 1, 2026

Leaving the pyrotechnics to the professionals is safer and more spectacular. YinYang/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Fireworks, heat and drought make this July 4th a recipe for wildfires

June 30, 2026

Rescue workers carry a person on a stretcher in Caracas following an earthquake in Venezuela on June 24, 2026. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images

Aid is on the way after Venezuela’s earthquakes, but it’s not...

June 27, 2026