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/ 2 months agoFunny reviews help engage consumers, fueling impulse buys − to a point, study shows
There has been quite a bit of research on online product reviews that try to sway consumer sentiment, but new research...
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The quality of a child’s attachments to caregivers influences healthy development. And most kids with difficult temperaments do form secure attachments...
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/ 2 months agoStarting with a handshake, presidential debate between Harris and Trump then turns fierce, and pointed
From inflation to abortion, foreign policy and democracy, the two presidential candidates went at it fiercely during their prime-time debate. Two...
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/ 2 months agoOfficial US poverty rate declined in 2023, but more people faced economic hardship
About 1 in 9 Americans are facing poverty today. But more than half of the people residing in the US will...
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/ 2 months agoHow we discovered that people who are colorblind are less likely to be picky eaters
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/ 2 months agoIs weight loss as simple as calories in, calories out? In the end, it’s your gut microbes and leftovers that make your calories count
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/ 2 months agoI’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers looking at plant-pollinator interactions – here’s what I learned
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/ 2 months agoWhales are recovering from near extinction, but industrial fishing around Antarctica competes for their sole food source
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/ 2 months agoMedieval theology has an old take on a new problem − AI responsibility
Autonomous AI is still designed by people − so who or what is really responsible for its actions? For centuries, theologians...
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