Science
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ChatGPT Can Get Good Grades. What Should Educators Do about It?
With its ability to pump out confident, humanlike prose almost instantaneously, ChatGPT is a valuable cheating tool for students who…
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsens amid a Shortage of Professional Help Providers
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The hospital where…
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Hearing Aids May Lower Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia
A friend recently noticed that she couldn’t always hear her phone ringing or family members calling from another room. A…
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Ötzi the Iceman Gets a New Look from Genetic Analysis
Europe’s oldest mummy has had a makeover. In 1991, hikers in an Italian valley near the border with Austria stumbled on…
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Extreme Heat Can Ruin Your Road Trip. Here’s How to Prepare
CLIMATEWIRE | As the hottest summer of what is expected to be the hottest year on record winds down, millions of…
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Hurricane Hilary Brings Major Flood Risks to U.S. Southwest
Southern California hasn’t seen a direct hit from a tropical storm since 1939, when an unnamed tempest made landfall at…
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Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything?
Albert Einstein is known for his haircut, theories of relativity and belief that “the fact that [the physical world] is…
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Science News Briefs from around the World: September 2023
Ancient poop pathogens in Israel, Peru’s millennia-old El Niño preparations, a halt to Icelandic whale hunting, and much more in…
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A Heroic Effort Aims to Save Florida’s Coral Reefs from Record Heat
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Armed with scrub…
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Lessons from Antarctica about Raising Kids in the Climate Crisis
Nonfiction Nurturing Uncertainty What can Antarctica’s “doomsday glacier” teach us about community? The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends…
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