Does a deeper voice make men more attractive? These researchers have the answer
During puberty, as boys transition into men, the dramatic drop in their vocal pitch has sparked a long-running debate…
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Global health research delivers medical advances and economic benefits far beyond its target countries
Recently, a middle-aged woman came to see me in my ophthalmology clinic because her eyes felt gritty and uncomfortable.…
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Ready at 12? Why age alone cannot tell you when children can go out unsupervised
By the time children are around 12 years old, many will begin to ask if they can go out to the local park, playground…
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Stable salts unlock alternative to potentially explosive reagents in carbene chemistry
Many useful reactions in chemistry come with a trade-off: the reactive reagents that make them effective can also…
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Study finds city-level fire data can hide what's happening block by block
A decade of New York City fire data shows that citywide trends can mask sharply different realities on the ground, with…
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Chimps plunder less pineapple from friends—and expect them to do the same
In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and…
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Catalog of mitochondria across life's family tree unearths unusual functions
A research consortium has generated the broadest look yet at the proteins that make up mitochondria, capturing the…
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Eye-eating amoeba resists treatment—understanding its biochemistry could help
In water, soil and air all around us lives a free-living, single-celled organism called Acanthamoeba. Most of the time,…
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How going digital offers families more than annual adoption letters
Digital technology could transform the way adopted children stay connected with their birth families, according to new…
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What is helping some Florida wildfires burn hotter, spread faster?
What is helping some Florida wildfires burn hotter and spread farther? A University of Florida study suggests…
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Following ancient rain toward life-related chemistry clues on Mars
The Mars we know today is a cold, dry world of dust and rocks. However, around 3.8–3.6 billion years ago, it may have…
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Exploring the shapes of exotic nuclei
In the conventional diagram of an atom, the center depicts a nucleus—a spherical cluster of protons and neutrons. But…
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A cleaner X-ray view of our galactic center's hot mess
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a chaotic place. In addition to the 4-million-solar-mass black hole known as…
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Citizen science project recruits volunteers to search for undiscovered black holes
Cosmic detectives are being called on for an interstellar mission to hunt down thousands of invisible black holes…
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Chameleon embryos reveal early developmental feature once thought unique to mammals
Before most women know they're pregnant, an embryo has already begun organizing itself into the structures that will…
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Many Australians are happy in love—but will it stay this way?
On average, Australians seem quite happy in their relationships.
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Device detects 'Devil's Breath' in beverages in just 10 minutes
Assault facilitated by drugs such as scopolamine (popularly known as Devil's Breath) is a serious public health and…
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Young Australians are the only age group whose thinking scores are falling
Something is happening to 15- to 24-year-olds.
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Letting light wander through milk—a surprising approach to better imaging
Light scattered in tissue usually ceases to be a useful source of information. But what if, instead of forcing it to…
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Science or strategy? Researchers call for transparency over the Anthropocene rejection
Since its introduction in 2000, the concept of the Anthropocene—the idea that human activities are the major driver of…
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Gut mRNA tech supercharges vaccine and GLP-1 delivery
From vaccines to gene therapies, mRNA medicines often rely on tiny fat-based particles called lipid nanoparticles, or…
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New parallel gate entangles diamond qubits 10 times faster at room temperature
Quantum technologies rely on qubits, units of information that can exist in combinations of the states 0 and 1 instead…
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Why do pickles glow? Researcher investigates explosive answer
If you mount a pickle on two metal forks and plug it into a socket, one end will light up in a brilliant orange glow.…
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How Trump's AI-generated memes impact political authority and masculinity
A new article by sociologists Tristan Bridges (University of California, Santa Barbara) and James W. Messerschmidt…
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After the storm: When recovery creates a community crisis
The storm ends, the fire goes out, floodwaters recede.
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Navigating tough conversations with people who have dementia about stopping driving
At some point, all people with dementia must stop driving due to the impact of cognitive impairment on skills critical…
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The hidden pressure behind responding to a boss's good news
Have you ever found yourself listening to someone share their good news and felt pressure to respond with excitement,…
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Empty nets in Latin America as fish flee El Niño
Fishermen along Latin America's Pacific coast are reeling in half-empty nets as ocean warming aggravated by El Niño…
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Study shows how research can change person conducting it
In 2012, I began an interview study with two multilingual language learners, focusing on their motivations for learning…
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'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose a fifth of mass in five years
Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost nearly 20% of their mass in…
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Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands
In a soggy field between Amsterdam and The Hague, farmer Sander Roeleveld plows a small white combine harvester into…
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Indonesia haze chokes neighbors, but little legal recourse
Haze from Indonesian wildfires has blanketed neighboring Malaysia and Singapore for more than a month, closing schools…
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90-plus-day spaceflights linked to higher rates of hip fractures in astronauts
New research has found that the rate of hip fractures among astronauts after spaceflights lasting more than 90 days was…
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Even high-altitude forests in Switzerland are now weakened by frequent droughts, making natural hazards more dangerous
Due to global warming, Swiss forests are now at a tipping point where summer droughts are overwhelming trees' tolerance…
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Women astronauts use social media to reframe science and femininity together
Why can't a flight jacket be pink or purple? That was the question a 6-year-old girl asked her mother, Kellie Gerardi,…
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Wildlife tracking to fill gaps in monarch migration research
Every fall, monarch butterflies fuel up on nectar from Iowa's fall-blooming wildflowers before embarking on an…
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