A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the…
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The Great Fall Bird Migration Has Already Begun—Here’s How to See It Birds are starting to make their way south for the…
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Wildfire Smoke from Canada Blankets the U.S. Midwest in Haze of Bad Air Quality Winds from the northwest are blowing cool, dry…
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Heatstroke and Extreme Heat Exposure Leads to Chronic Health Effects on Kidneys, Heart and Brain
Heatstroke and Extreme Heat can Hurt Health in the Long-Term, Too The immediate harms of extreme heat are well documented, but a…
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You Don’t Remember Being a Baby, but Your Brain Was Making Memories Brain scans capture memory formation in babies, raising new questions…
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Organs Age in Waves Accelerating at 50 Years Old Aging is a complex process that plays out differently across different organs, according…
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The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment, health care, and…
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Tests that AIs Often Fail and Humans Ace Could Pave the Way for Artificial General Intelligence
There are many ways to test the intelligence of an artificial intelligence—conversational fluidity, reading comprehension or mind-bendingly difficult physics. But some of…
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The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t…
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Aging Rates Vary by Country. Politics Might Be Why Social inequality and the decay of democratic institutions are linked to accelerated aging,…