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Studying theoretical, fast-spinning black holes is helping physicists understand more about the elusive black holes out…
Just as human biases show up in machine learning systems, so, too, do people’s vagaries and vicissitudes.
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Want to bring extra life to a glass of champagne or soda water? Physicists will tell you to drop in a small object, such…
It can be easy to mistake feelings like fear and anger as hate. When biases are acted out in harmful ways, however, speaking…
Human heart organoids allow researchers to study the developing heart while avoiding the ethical issues of using human embryos…
People are better able to see and correct biases in algorithms’ decisions than in their own decisions, even when algorithms…
Summer means road construction − but what kind of engineering goes into laying down pavement?
One of the first longitudinal studies of male brain changes across the transition to first-time parenthood finds that becoming…
Privacy advocates lost out when Congress reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without major…
Foxtails can hook onto your pet’s skin and may cause redness, swelling and infection.
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Research on one exoplanet that’s rapidly losing its atmosphere is hinting to scientists why exoplanets tend to look a…
The use of drone strikes raises a host of ethical issues. US military chaplains − the armed forces’ moral conscience…
Human factors − such as how people produce food and how they organize themselves and live together − influence disease…
Conspiracy theories abound. What should you believe − and how can you tell?
Studying Venus’ water loss can help scientists better understand how planets go from potentially habitable to incapable…
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