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This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Facebook just announced another step in trying to set the record straight about misleading information about the…
Right now, many are wondering: “How long are people going to be dying of Covid-19, and when can businesses reopen?” To answer those questions, scientists and policymakers have turned to a growing number of infectious disease forecast models. None of…
A new study from the Pew Research Center suggests many Americans had a poor understanding of the risks posed by the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic — and that the majority, some correctly and some incorrectly, felt…
In 2017, scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa spotted an enigmatic celestial body that turned out to be the first known interstellar object passing through the Solar System. Because of its unusual origin, it earned the name Oumuamua,…
Although there is scientific evidence that members of Homo neanderthalensis made art, buried their dead, and had complex technology, it is believed that they were intellectually inferior to modern humans. An ancient string discovered at an archaeological site in south-eastern…
