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Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.
New research from MIT is unintuitive but could lead to a better system.
Most people believe you can win an argument with facts - but when "facts" are so often subject to doubt, are personal experiences trusted more?
Northwell Health has built an elaborate data system to track and fight COVID-19. If this system goes global, it could prevent a future pandemic.
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The platform experiments with letting users decide what content needs flagging.
Inequality in wealth, gender, and race grew to unprecedented levels across the world, according to OxFam report.
There is no going "back to normal."
A new study casts doubt on previous research showing that emotional well-being plateaus at an income of $75,000 per year.
Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?
Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.
NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.
The idea behind the law was simple: make it more difficult for online sex traffickers to find victims.
User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.
We look back at a year ravaged by a global pandemic, economic downturn, political turmoil and the ever-worsening climate crisis.
The long-term lessons America learns from the coronavirus pandemic will spell life or death.
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Dr. Eric Lander is a pioneer in genomics. What role will he play in the new administration?
Debating is cognitively taxing but also important for the health of a democracy—provided it's face-to-face.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020's scorching climate data.
A new study shows that beauty standards affect whether or not accusers are believed.
Northwell Health is using insights from website traffic to forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations two weeks in the future.
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.
A new survey shows who believes what and how it differs from what Americans believe as a whole.
Plan S is starting to take hold, but the cost is merely shifting even more to the researchers.
Spoiler: Most people actually approved of their government's approach.
"The function of private media is to make money for the people who own the media. It is a business," Sanders said.
How many abortions are actually performed? Survey dat reveal the complexity in the raging debate.
Most Americans don't think twice about workplace safety. Perhaps they should. In newly updated numbers for 2012, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 4,628 Americans met their demise while on the job.
The U.S. does have one thing in its favor: Inertia. The fact that we have been #1 for so long means that we will continue to live off of past success for several years to come. But, we can't live on fumes forever.