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While they may talk about 'free speech,' businesses make decisions about their content based on a very different…
The tasks of fatherhood are changing, but society's expectations haven't caught up. Many dads use online discussion…
Technological professionals are the first, and last, lines of defense against the misuse of technology.
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Basic research can be easy to mock as pointless and wasteful of resources. But it's very often the foundation for future…
How do brains convert experiences into memories? New research explores the chain of events by focusing on what genes shift…
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CRISPR has been hailed as the an editing tool that can delete inherited mutations and cure disease. But recent papers suggest…
Tokens, the next stage in the development of blockchain technologies, can help expand blockchains' uses beyond simply…
Rivers are natural boundaries for evolving populations. But scientists don't agree whether they create new species or…
A new array of seismometers provides a glimpse of what's happening deep beneath this geologic fault. New data help explain…
Silicon is cheap and a good semiconductor, but it's bulky and rigid. Using organic polymers as semiconductors could…
Cancer immunotherapies are considered as revolutionary. But many cancer patients don't respond to them. In a new clinical…
Russian hackers are coupling old propaganda strategies with new technologies to attack and exploit not just computers and…
Cybersecurity experts in the US knew about Russian intelligence agencies' activities, but may not have had any idea…
With superpowers other animals can only dream of, these crustaceans challenge sharks for the title of most amazing predator…
The difference between probing and mapping and actually attacking depends on the intent of the people doing it, which is…
A recent US Supreme Court ruling marks a new milestone in the debate over police power and privacy in the digital age.
In the wake of two hurricanes in the Turks and Caicos Islands, researchers document for the first time that catastrophic…