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Social media companies appear to be sensitive to criticismShutterstock/easy camera Negative news stories about social media platforms appear to be...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.In the past week, Earth’s record for the hottest...

Over the past several years I’ve been keeping a watchful eye on the goings-on in the locomotive-and-train-propulsion-power-development-progress arena. There have...

Musical Memories Don’t Fade with AgeEighty-year-olds are able to identify familiar tunes just as well as teenagers canBy Bianca Nogrady...

A test of the Super Heavy Booster for Starship’s fifth test flightSpaceX SpaceX is making final preparations for the fifth...

Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was...

EU-funded researchers are using biological matter to create unique new materials that can adapt to their environment and repair themselves....

Honeybees Wing-Slap Ants That Try to Invade Their HiveJapanese honeybees use their wings to slap back ants trying to invade...

A start-up is inoculating tree seedlings with wild fungiFunga A million trees and counting have been inoculated with native fungi...

When Pradhanang found a trash mix that could be fashioned into a platform and resist breaking down with age, she...

Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse into the behavior of dark matter during a massive collision between two galaxy clusters...

Komodo Dragons’ Nightmare Iron-Tipped Teeth Are a Reptilian FirstReptile teeth have long been considered simple and cheap because the animals...

NASA recently announced the discontinuation of its VIPER lunar rover project, a rover built to prospect the moon for a precious...

British Columbia in Canada, during the 2023 wildfire seasonDavid J. Mitchell/Shutterstock Extreme heat, drought and wildfires caused forests and other...

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.For more than 10 years, Andrew Sweetman and...

The placebo effect is very real. This we’ve known for decades, as seen in real-life observations and the best double-blinded...