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/ 1 year agoEngineered ‘living materials’ could help clean up water pollution one day
‘Living materials’ made with genetically engineered bacteria and Jell-O-like gel could make pollutants in water bodies nontoxic.
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/ 1 year agoYour mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here’s how your brain stores and retrieves words
Most people can draw from tens of thousands of words in their memory within milliseconds. Studying this process can improve language...
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/ 1 year agoSam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud following the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Here’s what investors need to know
The downfall of the onetime multibillionaire holds lessons for investors and regulators alike.
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/ 1 year agoLetting low-income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food – new research
The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5%...
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/ 1 year agoBoth Israel and Palestinian supporters accuse the other side of genocide – here’s what the term actually means
People talk about genocide in a few different ways, ranging from technical to colloquial – but a war of words does...
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/ 1 year agoGenerative AI like ChatGPT could help boost democracy – if it overcomes key hurdles
Political scientists have begun to investigate ways AI can help people understand politics better and get more voices into the public...
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/ 1 year agoYoung men in violent parts of Philadelphia, Chicago die from guns at a higher rate than US troops in the heat of battle
Mass shootings account for only about 3% of gun homicides in the U.S.
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/ 1 year agoAcapulco was built to withstand earthquakes, but not Hurricane Otis’ destructive winds – how building codes failed this resort city
The best science is not always the best engineering when it comes to building codes. It’s also a problem across the...
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/ 1 year agoSupreme Court justices consider whether to uphold law that keeps guns out of the hands of domestic abusers
An important tool in the fight against domestic violence is under scrutiny in a major US Supreme Court case.
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/ 1 year agoWhat’s your chronotype? Knowing whether you’re a night owl or an early bird could help you do better on tests and avoid scams
Synchronizing your daily activities to your circadian rhythm could help you improve your performance on a variety of cognitive tasks −...
