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Tests that measure 'biological age' aren't helpful for tracking your health, scientists sayTests that measure biological aging are informative tools for studying large numbers of people but not for tracking individual health status.
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It's illegal to repair most of our devices. There's a surprising reason for that.If your phone breaks, it's impossible to fix it yourself. The reason for that lies with a set of laws that emerged decades ago.
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DNA sequencing is rewriting our understanding of historic outbreaks, but it can't tell the whole storyTechniques for analyzing DNA have advanced, enabling scientists to better understand disease outbreaks throughout history.
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AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality.Opinion Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.
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'I have no doubt that life is out there': Why radio astronomers are convinced alien contact is only a matter of timeBook excerpt In the book "The Echoing Universe: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos," astrophysicist Emma Chapman describes the hidden corners of space that only radio waves can reveal — and makes the case for contacting aliens.
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Poll: What do you think of PMOS, the new name for PCOS?Poll Last week, a common hormonal condition that impacts millions of people got a new name. Tell us what you think about the change.
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'We kept finding large, circular mass graves' in the Sahara predating the ancient Egyptians, archaeologists reportOpinion Archaeologists have found 260 burials in the Sahara that predate ancient Egypt.
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AI chatbots are turbocharging violence against women and girls: We urgently need to regulate themOpinion AI chatbots normalize sexual violence, initiate unwanted sexual conversations and offer personalized stalking advice because of how they're designed. Their makers need to be held accountable.
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More polar bears are approaching human sites as the climate warms, and it's not just the skinny onesOpinion It's not just thinner bears that are coming ashore as the climate warms.
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