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A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
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Physicists can use bright, hot lasers to slow atoms down so much that they measure -459 degrees Fahrenheit.
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How do people in a special airplane flight get to float like there is no gravity – just like astronauts? An aerospace…
Should the US be able to pre-order vaccines for its citizens when other populations around the globe are at greater risk?
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Martian meteorites allow scientists here on Earth to decode that planet's geology, more than a decade before the first…
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Archaeologists…
Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national…
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When it comes to commercial space tourism, suborbital flight are the first frontier. But what are the risks? Are there health…