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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.
What we’ve seen isn’t necessarily what we get, but the most common world doesn’t look like ours. There’s a very common myth out there in astronomy: the idea that the Sun […]
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.
This map of Europe's 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?
The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]
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Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
History is not the story of great people directing the course of the world. It’s about networks. Sure, great people may have had an outsized pull on certain events. But […]
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
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Dr. Katie Mack explains what dark energy is and two ways it could one day destroy the universe.
The main bioactive compound in catnip seems to protect cats from mosquitoes. It might protect humans, too.
A unique exoplanet without clouds or haze was found by astrophysicists from Harvard and Smithsonian.
People often make a killing in stocks, but there are other ways to potentially turn major profits.
NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.