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In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the young, using the young to gauge trends and styles, and targeting their spending power. Meanwhile, the anti-aging industry…
Biodiversity startups, which are tackling challenges ranging from disappearing pollinators to vanishing coral reefs, raise less capital than other startups but attract a broader coalition of investors, according to a new analysis that used machine learning to sift through venture…
Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long-inactive faults that slowly “heal” and strengthen over millions of years. When reactivated—often by human activities—these faults release all that built-up stress in…
The global community is facing a number of urgent challenges, such as emerging diseases, epidemics, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, water scarcity, environmental contamination, and severe changes in biodiversity. All of them are intensified by the widespread impact of climate change.…
A new study has shed light on how international charities and non-governmental organizations can better serve some of the most marginalized people in the world—by learning to truly listen to them.
With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence, teachers and school leaders are looking for answers to complicated questions about successfully integrating technology into lessons, while also ensuring students actually learn what they’re trying to teach.
Voting behavior in elections is strongly linked to the future risk of death, and is likely a stronger determinant of health than education—considered a key influence on health—suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
“The James Webb Space Telescope has opened a new frontier in extragalactic astrophysics, revealing objects we didn’t even suspect existed, and we’re only at the beginning of this adventure.”
The brief flashes were captured from Earth and could be from the Taurid meteor shower.
“This discovery ends a protracted search for these waves that has its origins in the 1940s.”