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Transplanting insulin-making cells to treat Type 1 diabetes is challenging − but stem cells offer a potential improvement - Vinny Negi, University of Pittsburgh

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Blurry, morphing and surreal – a new AI aesthetic is emerging in film -- Holly Willis, University of Southern California

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Rethinking screen time: A better understanding of what people do on their devices is key to digital well-being -- Rinanda Shaleha, Penn State

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Robo price-fixing: Why the Justice Department is suing a software company to stop landlords colluding on rents -- Roger Alford, University of Notre Dame

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An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet -- Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

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From using plant rinds to high-tech materials, bike helmets have improved significantly over the past 2 centuries -- Jud Ready, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your bladder to beat back harmful microbes -- Sarguru Subash, Texas A&M University

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Jupiter's moons hide giant subsurface oceans − Europa Clipper is one of 2 missions on their way to see if these moons could support life -- Mike Sori, Purdue University

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that's home to countless space objects -- James Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s − a crewed mission could unlock some of the red planet's geologic mysteries -- Joel S. Levine, William & Mary

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Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn't easy -- Dan Kotlyar, Georgia Institute of Technology

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CubeSats, the tiniest of satellites, are changing the way we explore the solar system -- Mustafa Aksoy, University at Albany, State University of New York

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Asking ChatGPT vs Googling: Can AI chatbots boost human creativity? -- Jaeyeon Chung, Rice University

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Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no, actually -- Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston

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How to overcome your device dependency and manage a successful digital detox -- Kelley Cours Anderson, College of Charleston and Karen Anne Wallach, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Misinformation is more than just bad facts: How and why people spread rumors is key to understanding how false information travels and takes root -- Kate Starbird, University of Washington and Stephen Prochaska, University of Washington

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No, you're not that good at detecting fake videos – 2 misinformation experts explain why and how you can develop the power to resist these deceptions -- Sam Wineburg, Stanford University and Michael Caulfield, University of Washington

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Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn't -- Pamela L. Geller, University of Miami

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Cells have more mini 'organs' than researchers thought − unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology's fundamentals -- Allan Albig, Boise State University

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The 27 Club isn't true, but it is real − a sociologist explains why myths endure and how they shape reality -- Zackary Okun Dunivin, University of California, Davis

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Americans own guns to protect themselves from psychological as well as physical threats -- Nick Buttrick, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Monkeys know who will win the election – primal instincts humans share with them shape voters' choices -- Michael Platt, University of Pennsylvania

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In Hawaii, parasites and viruses team up in the battle against fruit flies – an entomologist explains the implication for global pest control -- Kelsey Coffman, University of Tennessee

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Simple science summaries written by AI help people understand research and trust scientists -- David Markowitz, Michigan State University

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Election anxiety doesn't need to win − here are 3 science-backed strategies from a clinical psychologist to rein in the stress -- Shannon Sauer-Zavala, University of Kentucky

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Some people love to scare themselves in an already scary world − here's the psychology of why -- Sarah Kollat, Penn State

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Can you change your personality? Psychology research says yes, by tweaking what you think and do -- Shannon Sauer-Zavala, University of Kentucky

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Mixed emotions – neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once -- Anthony Gianni Vaccaro, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Why do I feel better when I wake myself up instead of relying on an alarm? A neurologist explains the science of a restful night's sleep -- Beth Ann Malow, Vanderbilt University

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Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round? -- Kelly R. MacGregor, Macalester College

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How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths -- Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University

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Why do we use gasoline for small vehicles and diesel fuel for big vehicles? -- Michael Leamy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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I'm a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life -- Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond

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Evidence from Snowball Earth found in ancient rocks on Colorado's Pikes Peak – it's a missing link -- Liam Courtney-Davies, University of Colorado Boulder; Christine Siddoway, Colorado College, and Rebecca Flowers, University of Colorado Boulder

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