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How your health is being commodified by social media
It is no secret that money shapes our health. From pharmaceutical ads to research agendas, money has always been...
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TikTok is now in U.S. hands. Here’s what the app wants to know about you.
TikTok — now in U.S. hands after the social media service split from China-based ByteDance earlier this year — is raising concerns among some users about its new privacy policy, prompting questions about the scope of...
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How to Make Your Questions Easy for Others to Help
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Taro and delivered to your inbox for free!In this week’s...
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Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised
Malta is one of the Mediterranean’s most remote islands. The nearest land is Sicily, about 85 kilometres north. Today,...
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Astronomers Celebrate 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting
In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a striking milestone: more than 6,000 known exoplanets. NASA’s Exoplanet Archive has captured not...
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Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside a quantum computer
A time crystal more complex than any made before has been created in a quantum computer. Exploring the properties...
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Your daily music routine could help ease anxiety, science suggests
We all know that listening to a favorite playlist can turn a bad day around, but new science suggests that the benefits of music might go far deeper than just a temporary mood boost. A fascinating study published just...
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Meta, YouTube face trial over allegations their tech is addictive, as TikTok settles
Meta and YouTube are in court this week over allegations that their social media platforms can be addictive and harmful to children, while TikTok on Tuesday chose to settle the closely watched case. At the heart...
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To halt measles’ resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation
When I read the 1998 study falsely claiming there was a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)...
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Our brains play a surprising role in recovering from a heart attack
Following a heart attack, the brain picks up and acts on signals that come directly from sensory neurons located...