In a bid to keep kids safer online, Instagram is stepping up its efforts to detect users who lie about their age.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, on Monday said it has begun testing AI tools that can proactively detect situations in…
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Friends at First Sniff: Smell Preferences Predict People’s Friendship Potential
When you meet a stranger for the first time, how do you judge your potential to be friends? Is it their personality? Their style? Their smile? According to a new study in Scientific Reports, scent might have something to do with it, as smell…
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Once Thought Mythical, Colossal Squid Spotted Alive for the First Time
For years, tales of giant squids roaming the ocean depths lived mostly in folklore and maritime legends — dismissed as mythological creatures without solid scientific backing. These elusive beings were long considered cryptids due to the lack…
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Physicists Found an Entirely New Way to Measure Time
Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between ‘then’ and ‘now’.
Down at the quantum scale of buzzing electrons, however, ‘then’ can’t always be…
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US recycles rare earths from hard drives to rival China’s dominance
With rare earth exports caught in the crossfire of rising U.S.–China tariffs, the global tech and defense industries are bracing for supply disruptions.
On April 4, China imposed new restrictions on seven critical rare earth elements and…
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Youth Happiness Levels Have Declined Before, During, and After COVID-19 Pandemic
Mental health for U.S. children has declined before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic — a substantial break in a trend that has long shown this age group generally reports feelings of happiness and well-being, according to a report in…
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Researchers Reveal That Climbing Stairs Could Extend Your Life
Climbing stairs is linked to longer life and lower cardiovascular risk, making it a simple but powerful addition to daily routines. Climbing stairs is linked to a longer life, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024, a…
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125-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shines Light on Origin of Subterranean Freshwater Isopods
A new genus and species of cymothoidan isopod that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch has been identified from two well-preserved specimens found in Lebanon. Stemming from a freshwater lake environment, this isopod provides an…
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Archaeologists find UAE’s first major Iron Age necropolis
The Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi has announced the discovery of the first major Iron Age necropolis in the United Arab Emirates.
The necropolis was discovered by the Archaeology Section of DCT Abu Dhabi’s Historic Environment…
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Twinkling star reveals the shocking secrets of turbulent plasma in our cosmic neighbourhood
With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighbourhood.
The plasma structures we see are variations in…
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