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The next time you snap a selfie, consider thanking an astronomer for your phone’s camera

Puzzling Havana Syndrome injuries that have afflicted U.S. diplomats may have a more complicated explanation than solely pulsed microwaves or mass psychology

Activists who seek to revive this antiquated law share with Anthony Comstock, the Comstock Act’s namesake and progenitor, a similar view of women as subordinate to the decisions of men and God

Walking barefoot on hot stones; what makes bluebirds blue

A mysterious 12-sided object called a dodecahedron discovered in England has archaeologists both excited and baffled

When poet Jessy Randall saw that so many female scientists weren’t getting their due, she got mad. And then she decided to write poems for as many as she could

Repression draws attention to campus protests, like those over the conflict in Gaza, and makes them grow

Dodgy studies and fantastic claims have long powered a belief in devious Russian brain weapons, from mind control to microwave devices   

A philosopher who lived centuries before artificial intelligence might be able to help us understand the field's personhood questions

AI can better education, not threaten it, if we learn some lessons from the adoption of the calculator into the classroom

Pavlov’s dogs; Mercury’s dark side

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