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What the Meta and Google verdict means for social media design
A Los Angeles jury found Instagram and YouTube negligent in how they were built, opening a new legal fight over how courts view social media
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Secrets of color vision could hold clues to treating nearsightedness
Knowing how your eye optimizes vision could have big implications for the progression of nearsightedness
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Meet the four astronauts of Artemis II.
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NASA’s Artemis II mission launches four astronauts to the moon
A daring 10-day voyage will take four astronauts on a loop around the moon and set the stage for future forays to the lunar surface
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NASA Artemis II astronauts “safe” and “secure" as they journey toward the moon, officials say
NASA launched the Artemis II moon mission on Wednesday, April 1—a date that will enable the crew to observe the moon pass in front of the sun from space
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Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age
A new archeological finding shows that Native Americans were exploring probability through games of chance far earlier than their Old World counterparts
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Why do Black women have worse IVF outcomes?
A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births
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NASA’s moon mission day one—a toilet mishap and spacecraft maneuvers
The first day of the Artemis II mission saw the crew enter Earth orbit and prepare for their journey around the moon
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See these ziti-sized fish scale a 50-foot waterfall
These tiny fish use friction to put human rock climbers to shame
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Anthropic leak reveals Claude Code tracking user frustration and raises new questions about AI privacy
Code that reads your frustration is the least interesting part of the story of this accidental leak from Anthropic. The leak reveals how AI tools are also concealing their own role in the work they help produce
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Octopus sex is even weirder than you think
Scientists have learned how male octopuses' specialized sperm-depositing arm knows where to go
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RFK, Jr. and EPA announce plan to track microplastics in tap water and humans
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track microplastics in drinking water—but experts say doing so will be difficult
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How Eli Lilly’s new GLP‑1 pill stacks up against Wegovy and other weight‑loss drugs
This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second GLP-1 pill for weight loss. The drug, called Foundayo, resulted in an average of 27 pounds lost in 72 weeks
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‘Jaw-dropping’ fossils reset the clock on when complex animals evolved
A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once believed
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Why humpback whale rescue effort got called off
It was a tough decision to leave Timmy the humpback whale to die on a small island in the Baltic Sea