Giving cash to families in poor, rural communities can help bring down child marriage rates, new research shows

Choking during sex: many young people mistakenly believe it can be done safely, new study shows

New satellite data shows NZ’s major cities are sinking. Global mean sea level has risen about 21-24 centimeters (8-9 inches) since 1880

RFK Jr is wrong – there's a rich history of autistic poets

Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers

Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture

Why do plastic containers always come out wet from the dishwasher?

Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing over your data too

Americans die earlier at all wealth levels, even if wealth buys more years

Sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd

People who most frequently encounter everyday, subtle discrimination are 5x more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression, and the effect holds even after adjusting for race, gender, age…

Study shows people project their political views onto fictional heroes and villains

Cells lining your skin and organs can generate electricity when injured − potentially opening new doors to treating wounds

Anti-pollution regulations for diesel-powered ships in 2020 caused lightning strikes to quickly drop by half over two Asian shipping lanes, according to a study of 12 years of high-resolution global lightning strike data, demonstrating the link between particulate pollution and lightning storms

People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI, study says otherwise

How our bodies react when we use social media—and when we stop

Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US

Reasons veterans are especially hard-hit by federal cuts

A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland

Philly's street fentanyl contains a chemical called BTMPS used in plastic

Radioisotope generators − the 'nuclear batteries' that power faraway spacecraft

Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives

How to learn a new language like a baby

A new discovery of quina scrapers in China from the Middle Paleolithic challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa were inventing new tools during that era, people of East Asia stuck to basic stone tools that remained unchanged for thousands of years

Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for Fraud in the Scientific Literature

Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions

NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV

A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities

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