Thousands of Americans are impacted each summer by excessive heat and humidity, some suffering from heat-related illnesses when the body can't cool itself down. Data from NASA satellites could help local governments reduce ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2025
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In the discussion around artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, Sanmay Das has found one constant: While many people believe that some jobs can be replaced by AI, they believe that their own job is far too nuanced and ...
Social Sciences
Aug 28, 2025
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Does keeping authors' identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Professor Tim Pleskac in collaboration with Ellie ...
Economics & Business
Aug 15, 2025
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Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With more than 11,000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the coming years, as well as more than 1.2 million pieces of space debris greater than 1 cm, the risk ...
Space Exploration
Aug 12, 2025
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New inventions—like the printing press, magnetic compasses, steam engines, calculators and the internet—can create radical shifts in our everyday lives. Many of these new technologies were met with some degree of skepticism ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2025
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A fundamental problem for governments is getting citizens to comply with their laws and policies. They can't monitor everyone and catch all the rule-breakers. "It's a logistical impossibility," says Lily L. Tsai, MIT's Ford ...
Economics & Business
Aug 4, 2025
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In South Africa, most of the arable land was taken from Africans by colonial settlers. Ever since apartheid ended in 1994, people who were dispossessed of their land have been trying to get it back.
Environment
Jul 29, 2025
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The Canadian government is currently considering approving the entry of gene-edited pigs into the food system.
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2025
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Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2025
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Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of the well-known conversational platform ChatGPT, have proved to be very promising for summarizing and generating written texts. However, they ...
