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A Safe Word Can Protect against AI Impostor Scams Fraudsters are using AI voice-cloning services to steal identities. Code words can thwart this deception

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Defend Yourself against AI Impostor Scams with a Safe Word

Fraudsters are using AI voice-cloning services to steal identities. Code words can thwart this deception

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AI Doesn’t Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do We shouldn’t be afraid of AI taking over humanity; we should fear the fact that our humanity hasn’t kept up with our technology

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AI Doesn’t Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do

We shouldn’t be afraid of AI taking over humanity; we should fear the fact that our humanity hasn’t kept up with our technology

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Self-Driving Trucks Claim Climate Benefits The autonomous trucking industry says its self-driving vehicles can cut carbon emissions by reducing fuel use, though some groups have raised safety questions

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Self-Driving Trucks Claim Climate Benefits

The autonomous trucking industry says its self-driving vehicles can cut carbon emissions by reducing fuel use, though some groups have raised safet...

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Hydrogen-Powered Airplanes Face 5 Big Challenges Hydrogen could help make flying greener, but switching away from fossil fuels poses some hefty challenges

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Hydrogen-Powered Airplanes Face 5 Big Challenges

Hydrogen could help make flying greener, but switching away from fossil fuels poses some hefty challenges

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An FDA Overreaction to Theranos's Implosion Would Harm Patients Requiring FDA approval for laboratory developed tests would be an overreaction to the Theranos debacle and would ultimately harm patients

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An FDA Overreaction to Theranos’s Implosion Would Harm Patients

Requiring FDA approval for laboratory-developed tests would be an overreaction to the Theranos debacle and would ultimately harm patients

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Implicit Bias Hurts Everyone. Here’s How to Overcome It. The environment shapes stereotypes and biases, but it is possible to recognize and change them

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Implicit Bias Hurts Everyone. Here’s How to Overcome It

The environment shapes stereotypes and biases, but it is possible to recognize and change them

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Florida's Beef with Lab-Grown Meat Is Evidence-Free Lobbyists’ and politicians’ campaigns against lab-grown meat appeal to emotion, not logic and reason

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Florida’s Beef with Lab-Grown Meat Is Evidence-Free

Lobbyists’ and politicians’ campaigns against lab-grown meat appeal to emotion, not logic and reason

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Gas Stove Pollution Lingers in Homes for Hours Even outside the Kitchen Gas stoves spew nitrogen dioxide at levels that frequently exceed those that are deemed safe by health organizations

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Gas Stove Pollution Lingers in Homes for Hours Even outside the Kitchen

Gas stoves spew nitrogen dioxide at levels that frequently exceed those that are deemed safe by health organizations

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Why Are We Still Superstitious? Superstitions linger into the modern era, in part, because they may be holdovers from a time when they provided a measure of protection from predators and other mortal dangers

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Why Are We Still Superstitious?

Superstitions linger into the modern era, in part, because they may be holdovers from a time when they provided a measure of protection from predat...

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The Unequal Burden of Early Dementia on Black Americans and How We Can Change It Black Americans face higher hurdles in diagnosis and treatment of frontotemporal dementia, the most common form of dementia for people under 60

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The Unequal Burden of Early Dementia on Black Americans and How We Can Change It

Black Americans face higher hurdles in diagnosis and treatment of frontotemporal dementia, the most common form of dementia for people under 60

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The Science of ‘3 Body Problem’: What’s Fact and What’s Fiction? The hit sci-fi show’s adviser and two other researchers discuss its portrayal of scientists and their technologies

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The Science of ‘3 Body Problem’: What’s Fact and What’s Fiction?

The hit sci-fi show’s adviser and two other researchers discuss its portrayal of scientists and their technologies

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Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant

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Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant

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Is Sleeping on the Floor Good for Your Back? Scientific American asked experts whether sleeping on a hard surface is actually beneficial for back pain

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Is Sleeping on the Floor Good for Your Back?

Scientific American asked experts whether sleeping on a hard surface is actually beneficial for back pain

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How Some Common Medications Can Make People More Vulnerable to Heat As climate change brings more intense heat waves, scientists are trying to understand how certain medications interact with the body’s thermoregulation system

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How Some Common Medications Can Make People More Vulnerable to Heat

As climate change brings more intense heat waves, scientists are trying to understand how certain medications interact with the body’s thermoregu...

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3 Ways Scientific Thinking Could Help Save the World A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist are working together to bring better, smarter decision-making to the masses

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Can Scientific Thinking Save the World?

A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist are working together to bring better, smarter decision-making to the masses

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Meteorites in Antarctica Are Getting Harder to Find because of Climate Change As climate change warms the poles, precious Antarctic meteorites will melt their way down out of scientists’ reach

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Meteorites in Antarctica Are Getting Harder to Find because of Climate Change

As climate change warms the poles, precious Antarctic meteorites will melt their way down out of scientists’ reach

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How Do We Know Anything For Certain? Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in doing so, grow and learn from it.

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How Do We Know Anything For Certain?

Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in doing so, grow and learn from it.

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Wealthy Nations Agree to 2035 Deadline for Ending Coal for the First Time The G7 group of wealthy, developed economies has agreed to phase out coal-fired power, the most polluting form of energy, by 2035

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Wealthy Nations Agree to 2035 Deadline for Ending Coal for the First Time

The G7 group of wealthy, developed economies has agreed to phase out coal-fired power, the most polluting form of energy, by 2035

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Nearsightedness Rates Are Soaring. Here’s Why Myopia is becoming so common some people deem it “epidemic.” Here’s why getting kids outside and treating nearsightedness early is crucial for healthy eyesight

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Nearsightedness Rates Are Soaring. Here’s Why

Myopia is becoming so common some people deem it “epidemic.” Here’s why getting kids outside and treating nearsightedness early is crucial fo...

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U.S Needs To Better Track Bird Flu Spread in Farm Animals, Farm Workers, Epidemiologist Says Four years after a mysterious respiratory virus jumped from animals into humans and launched the COVID pandemic, wary epidemiologists are keeping a close eye on a strain of avian influenza that is spreading among U.S. dairy cows

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U.S. Needs to Better Track Bird Flu Spread in Farm Animals, Farm Workers, Epidemiologist Says

Four years after a mysterious respiratory virus jumped from animals into humans and launched the COVID pandemic, wary epidemiologists are keeping a...