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Meeting Developmental Milestones Early Doesn’t Always Predict Success Developmental milestones help us understand when a child needs help, but meeting them early doesn’t necessarily predict long term success

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Meeting Developmental Milestones Early Doesn’t Always Predict Success

Developmental milestones help us understand when a child needs help, but meeting them early doesn’t necessarily predict long-term success

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The Internet Is Full of Deepfakes, and the Sky Is Full of Trash Deepfake images, a delayed spaceflight, the troubles with space junk and a blast from our past for your Monday review of science news.

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The Internet Is Full of Deepfakes, and the Sky Is Full of Trash

Deepfake images, a delayed spaceflight, the troubles with space junk and a blast from our past.

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How Climate Disasters Could Destabilize Major Banks Both climate-driven disasters and the clean energy transition pose risks for the world’s largest financial institutions

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How Climate Disasters Could Destabilize Major Banks

Both climate-driven disasters and the clean energy transition pose risks for the world’s largest financial institutions

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AI Therapy Bots Have Risks and Benefits and More Risks Therapy chatbots are increasingly popular and may benefit some people, but it's dangerous to trust AI during a mental health crisis

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AI Therapy Bots Have Risks and Benefits and More Risks

Therapy chatbots are increasingly popular and may benefit some people, but it

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How Do People Get Parasitic Brain Worms like the One RFK, Jr., Had? Experts explain how certain worms can infect the brain and why they are an important global public health problem

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What Do Brain Worms like the One RFK, Jr., Had Actually Do?

Experts explain how certain worms can infect the brain and why they are an important global public health problem

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Carrington-Level Cluster of Sunspots May Send a ‘Cannibal CME’ Hurtling Toward Earth A giant sunspot cluster rivaling the one that caused the Carrington Event in 1859 could trigger a cannibal coronal mass ejection. But this is unlikely to cause major problems

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Giant Sunspot Cluster Could Pelt Earth with a Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection

A giant sunspot cluster rivaling the one that caused the Carrington Event in 1859 could trigger a cannibal coronal mass ejection. But this is unlik...

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Photograph Collection Finds ‘Tragic Beauty’ in Shorelines Marred by Climate Change A stunning photograph collection underlines how climate change is altering the world’s coastal and lakeside environments

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See the ‘Tragic Beauty’ in Shorelines Marred by Climate Change

A stunning photography collection underlines how climate change is altering the world’s coastal and lakeside environments

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Will Mexico City Run Out of Drinking Water? More huge cities are facing Day Zero—the date water taps go dry—just as Cape Town, South Africa, did

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Will Mexico City Run Out of Water?

More huge cities are facing Day Zero—the date water taps go dry—just as Cape Town, South Africa, did

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In a First, JWST Confirms an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet Milestone observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal signs of an atmosphere on the inhospitably hot super-Earth 55 Cancri e

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In a First, JWST Confirms an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet

Milestone observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal signs of an atmosphere on the inhospitably hot super-Earth 55 Cancri e

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How Bird Flu Caught the Dairy Industry Off Guard Understanding how avian influenza jumped into cows can help shape the path to stopping the virus’s spread

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How Bird Flu Caught the Dairy Industry Off Guard

Understanding how avian influenza jumped into cows can help shape the path to stopping the virus’s spread

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It’s Time for a Nature Preserve—On the Moon The far side of the moon holds the keys to the future of radio astronomy. We must maintain its pristine silence to benefit everyone

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It’s Time for a Nature Preserve—On the Moon

The far side of the moon holds the keys to the future of radio astronomy. We must maintain its pristine silence to benefit everyone

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NASA’s Plans for Next-Generation Mars Helicopters Are Up in the Air After the spectacular success of the first-ever “Marscopter,” mission planners have soaring ambitions for follow-up flying machines

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NASA’s Plans for Next-Generation Mars Helicopters Are Up in the Air

After the spectacular success of the first-ever “Marscopter,” mission planners have soaring ambitions for follow-up flying machines

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Once-Hidden Hydrogen Gas Deposits Could Be a Boon for Clean Energy Large stores of natural hydrogen have turned up in Albania, France and Mali

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Once-Hidden Hydrogen Gas Deposits Could Be a Boon for Clean Energy

Large stores of natural hydrogen have turned up in Albania, France and Mali

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Has the Last Great Space Observatory Already Launched? Astronomy’s future may be slipping away—one climate disaster at a time

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Has the Last Great Space Observatory Already Launched?

Astronomy’s future may be slipping away—one climate disaster at a time

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‘Protest Paradigm’ Shows What’s Wrong with Media Coverage of Student Activism Media coverage of university students speaking up against the war in Gaza, just like coverage of other protest movements, has fallen prey to some serious weaknesses

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‘Protest Paradigm’ Shows What’s Wrong with Media Coverage of Student Activism

Media coverage of university students speaking up against the war in Gaza, just like coverage of other protest movements, has fallen prey to some s...

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Meet HELIX, the High-Altitude Balloon That May Solve a Deep Cosmic Mystery Every now and then, tiny particles of antimatter strike Earth from cosmic parts unknown. A new balloon-borne experiment launching this spring may at last find their source

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Meet HELIX, the High-Altitude Balloon That May Solve a Deep Cosmic Mystery

Every now and then, tiny particles of antimatter strike Earth from cosmic parts unknown. A new balloon-borne experiment launching this spring may a...

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Boeing’s Starliner Is Set for Its First Crewed Spaceflight Starliner’s first crewed launch will mark just the sixth time ever that NASA astronauts have flown in a brand-new spacecraft

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Boeing’s Starliner Is Set for Its First Crewed Spaceflight

Starliner’s first crewed launch will mark just the sixth time ever that NASA astronauts have flown in a brand-new spacecraft

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AI Could Help Find a Solution for String Theory String theory could provide a theory of everything for our universe—but it entails 10500 (more than a centillion) possible solutions. AI models could help to find the right one

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AI Could Help Find a Solution for String Theory

String theory could provide a theory of everything for our universe—but it entails 10500 (more than a centillion) possible solutions. AI models c...

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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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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