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Republican South Carolina House member charged with distributing child sexual abuse material
A Republican South Carolina House member has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material ...
Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos faces detention hearing
A Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos into the United States faces a detention hearing in Massachusetts. Thirty-year-old Kseniia Petrova ...
Ping, ping ping. Here's what it's like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science
A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may eventually help better forecast an ...
Connecticut man, known for anti-COVID vaccine arguments, appointed by RKF Jr. to CDC's vaccine panel
Martin Kulldorff is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for a "herd immunity" strategy.
A look at Boeing's recent troubles after Air India crash
The crash of a Boeing 787 passenger jet in India minutes after takeoff on Thursday is the latest incident that adds to woes at the troubled U.S. planemaker. It's the first ever crash of a 787 since ...
AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks
Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Data-hungry tech ...
Older adults with dementia misjudge their financial skills – which may make them more vulnerable to fraud, new research finds
(THE CONVERSATION) Older adults diagnosed with dementia lose their ability to assess how well they manage their finances, according to a recent study I co-authored in The Gerontologist. In comparison, ...
Opinion
Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy − making big cuts to such government spending unwise
Federal R&D spending is also often on the chopping block whenever Congress focuses on deficit reduction. In part, that likely reflects the gradual nature of the economic benefits from ...
From Washington’s burned letters to Trump’s missing transcripts, partial presidential records limit people’s full understanding of history
The White House has removed the official transcripts of Trump’s public remarks from its government website, NBC News reported in May 2025, replacing the written transcripts with select videos and ...
AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices – here’s how to be aware of what you’re revealing
Although AI tools collect people’s data, and the way this accumulation of data affects people’s data privacy is concerning, the tools can also be useful. AI-powered applications can streamline ...
AI literacy: What it is, what it isn’t, who needs it and why it’s hard to define
The implications of AI literacy, or lack thereof, are far-reaching. They extend beyond national ambitions to remain “a global leader in this technological revolution” or even ...
Energy Star, on the Trump administration’s target list, has a long history of helping consumers’ wallets and the planet
Energy Star was launched by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 and later expanded in partnership with the Department of Energy with a simple goal: making it easier for consumers and ...