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25 years after 9/11, what disasters reveal about Americans’ ability to reconnect
Decades of disaster research show how catastrophes strain communities – and reveal the connections that help people endure.
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Yosemite, again in corporate crosshairs, embodies the long war over US national park privatization
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
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Decades after 9/11, toxic dust and PTSD may be accelerating brain aging among first responders
From intense psychological trauma to exposure to neurotoxic dust, first responders at ground zero continue to confront significant physical and mental health risks.
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Caterpillar twitches in an ultraquiet chamber are helping biologists understand how these insects hear without ears
Scientists give caterpillars haircuts and put them in a room isolated from sound to figure out how they’re able to hear without ears.
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Trump is proposing a US Space Academy – if created, it could blur the lines between NASA and the military
No, the US Space Academy wouldn’t be a real-life Starfleet Academy. But what it would be is still a little unclear.
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Daejon Love case highlights online romance scams: Research reveals scammers’ tactics – and how to defend against them
Dating apps have given an ancient profession, confidence scamming, a high-tech boost.
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Pyrograzing turns ordinary livestock into fire prevention heroes, so why isn’t it used on public lands more often?
Targeted grazing is gaining interest as fire risk rises, particularly in hard-to-manage areas of the Western US. But it isn’t always as simple as…
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Before the infinity nets, there was ‘The Pacific Ocean’ – what origin stories focusing on Yayoi Kusama’s mental illness miss about her art
Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as the source of her inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a…
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What would you see if you had one eye on the back of your head and the other in the front?
Some animal species have their eyes positioned on their heads differently than how people do – and it comes with pluses and minuses for…