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In high school Earth science, you likely learned that hailstorms form when strong upward winds push water droplets to freezing altitudes, where they solidify and gather additional layers of ice as they cycle up and down the storm cloud. When they grow too heavy, they plummet to the ground. For once, however, new research suggests that the truth might be simpler than what we were taught to believe. An international team of researchers has shed light on the formation and growth of hailstones in s
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A hot potato: A new study from UC San Francisco is raising alarms about the widespread use of computed tomography (CT) scans in the United States, warning that the technology may be responsible for as much as 5 percent of all cancers diagnosed each year. The research, published in JAMA Internal Medicine and funded by the National Institutes of Health, suggests that the risks associated with CT scans – particularly the exposure to ionizing radiation – are far greater than previously believed. "C
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Image by Getty / Futurism Studies As wildly overinvolved parents shell out to give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that putting them on drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have the opposite effect. As the New York Times reports, the scientists behind the Multimodal Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Study, or MTA Study for short, weren't exactly looking for physiological changes in their subjects: a cohort of 5
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A digital cover illustration for the journal Nanoscale (2025, Volume 17, Page 7002). Credit: Andreas Beilhack, created with Procreate Fungal infections are on the rise globally. According to a study by the Manchester Fungal Infection Group, in 2022, approximately 6.5 million people were infected by a pathogenic fung
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A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles has discovered that there are microplastics in chewing gum. Both natural and synthetic gum releases microplastics into the mouth when chewed, according to a statement published in Chemistry for Life. Out of the 10 brands of chewing gum that were tested, all were found to contain microplastics. According to the statement, "[The lab] measured an average of 100 microplastics released per gram of gum, though some individual gum pieces releas
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Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months After several years of intense work, CERN and international partners have completed a study to assess the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC). Reflecting the expertise of over a thousand physicists and engineers across the globe, the report presents an overview of the different
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Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Can working on a digital tablet actually contribute to greater productivity? A recent study suggests so. It's great news for anyone who owns a Remarkable Paper Pro or Boox Note Max -- two E Ink tablets I reviewed over the last year and praised as laptop alternatives. Also: I used ReMarkable's new colored E Ink tablet for two weeks - and can't go back to 'real' paper I'm an enjoyer of the Remarkable Paper Pro and regularly use it for freeform tasks. The act of physically w
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Humans have been pondering the existence of life beyond Earth since ancient times. In the 1900s, scientists began actively searching for proof. Needless to say, we still haven’t found any. Although it’s only been a number of decades and technology is advancing every day, what if we continue to come up empty-handed? In a study published Monday in The Astronomical Journal, an international team of researchers tackled this question by arguing that what we don’t find can still be deeply informative
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Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Can working on a digital tablet actually contribute to greater productivity? A recent study suggests so. It's great news for anyone who owns a Remarkable Paper Pro or Boox Note Max two E Ink tablets I reviewed over the last year and praised as laptop alternatives. Also: I used ReMarkable's new colored E Ink tablet for two weeks - and can't go back to 'real' paper I'm an enjoyer of the Remarkable Paper Pro and regularly use it for freeform tasks. The act of physically writ
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In 2019, researcher and nature guide Mohamad Alias Shakri spotted an unusual plant in a forest in the Malaysian state of Terengganu. The plant grew in proximity to a well-known hiking trail, but it turns out he had discovered a previously undocumented species. As detailed in a study published Monday in the journal PhytoKeys, the plant is a newly described species in the peculiar Thismia genus, nicknamed the “fairy lantern” for its fantastical appearance. The plant was named Thismia aliasii in h
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Artistic rendering of cellulose regenerating on a plant protoplast cell surface with zoomed out view. Cellulose is synthesized by plasma membrane-bound enzyme complexes (green) and assembles into a microfibril network (brown), forming the main scaffold for the cell wall. Credit: Ehsan Faridi/ Inmywork Studio/ Chundaw
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Your future therapist might be a chatbot, and you might see positive results, but don't start telling ChatGPT your feelings just yet. A new study by researchers at Dartmouth found a generative AI tool designed to act as a therapist led to substantial improvements for patients with depression, anxiety and eating disorders -- but the tool still needs to be closely watched by human experts. The study was published in March in the journal NEJM AI. Researchers conducted a trial with 106 people who
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A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles has discovered that there are microplastics in chewing gum. Both natural and synthetic gum releases microplastics into the mouth when chewed, according to a statement published in Chemistry for Life. Out of the 10 brands of chewing gum that were tested, all were found to contain microplastics. According to the statement, "[The lab] measured an average of 100 microplastics released per gram of gum, though some individual gum pieces releas
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The end-Cretaceous extinction—the massive extinction event widely attributed to an asteroid impact that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago—had a profound impact on the evolution of all life on Earth. Specifically, mammals eventually diversified into thousands of distinct species. By studying mammal remains from the end of the Cretaceous period (approximately 145 to 66 million years ago) and the early Paleogene period (66 to 23 million years ago) an internationa
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Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science More concerning news from the traumatic brain injury (TBI) front: a new study shows that kids who experience just one concussion are 15 percent less likely to end up going to college — the latest research to ring alarm bells about various ways that the long-term impacts of TBIs might manifest. The study, published last week in the European Journal of Epidemiology, was conducted by a cohort of Finnish scientists and physicians. Using data fro
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Screen time in bed linked to worse sleep, study finds 20 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images People who spend more time looking at a screen in bed are more likely to report insomnia and sleep loss, a study has found. The research is based on a Norwegian survey of more than 45,000 students. It indicates that each additional hour of screen time was linked to a 63% increase in insomnia risk, and 24 minutes less sleep. However, the researchers said they
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LSD can do a lot of things, but not necessarily much for someone’s attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. In a recent small clinical trial, microdoses of the psychedelic failed to significantly treat people’s ADHD. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland conducted the study, published this month in JAMA Psychiatry. In people with ADHD, twice weekly low doses of LSD performed no better than placebo at improving their symptoms. The researchers are careful to note that LSD can sti
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Microplastics have been under the microscope lately, especially considering it's estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles yearly. That number goes up to 74,000 to 121,000 particles when you include those we breathe in. Microplastics have become such a part of our lives that a new study found a plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. That sounds bad, but exactly how bad is it? To dig deeper, we spoke with a family physician about
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If your mic sucks on a conference call then everyone judges you. In our deepest hearts we all know this is true but now it’s confirmed by science. A new study from Yale looked at people’s perception of a speaker based on how their mic makes them sound. The results won’t shock you. People with bad audio setups are less likely to get a job, land a date, or be seen as credible. According to a blogpost about the study, lead author Brian Scholl got the idea for the study during the early days of the
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How do young children categorize objects? To find out, Sarah Dufour, an assistant professor in the didactics department of the Faculty of Education at Université de Montréal, conducted a study in which children were given toy groceries and asked to organize the food on shelves. D
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In brief: A team of physicists believe it may be possible to harvest electricity using Earth's rotation through its own magnetic field, and they've published a paper involving a test that appears to validate the concept. The study, published in the journal Physical Review Research, builds on work the team conducted back in 2016 and an idea dating back to at least 1832. Using a cylindrical shell made of manganese-zinc ferrite measuring 29.9 cm in length and positioned at a specific angle (57.5 d
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Americans’ support for a TikTok ban is declining, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. This survey of over 5,000 U.S. adults found that just 34% of respondents supported banning the short form video app. When Pew ran a similar study in 2023, 50% of adults supported the TikTok ban. Over the same time span, the study also shows more Americans growing opposed to the ban. While 22% of respondents opposed it in 2023, that population rose to 32% in the recent study. These trends were
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A frustrated teacher recently took to social media with a desperate warning: You guys don’t know what’s going on in education right now. That’s fine—how could you know unless you were working in it? But I think that you need to know…. First of all the kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever. They live on their phones. And they’re just fed a constant stream of dopamine from the minute their eyes wake up in the morning until they go to sleep at night. Because they are in a constant state of d
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OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab last week released two new studies aimed at exploring the effect of AI chatbots on loneliness. The results are complicated, but they also line up with what we now know about social media: Chatbots can make people lonely, but the people who reported feeling more alone after heavy use of an AI tended to feel pretty alone before they started. To do the studies, OpenAI turned over almost 40 million interactions its users had with ChatGPT to researchers at MIT. In the fi
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During World War I, navies painted their ships in “dazzle” camouflage, also known as “razzle dazzle.” Unlike traditional camouflage, which helps objects blend into their surroundings, dazzle camouflage used stark geometric patterns to try to confuse German U-boat captains’ perception of a ship’s direction and speed, making it harder to target. But did the dazzle actually dazzle, or did it simply look ridiculous? Aston University researchers have investigated the efficacy of dazzle camouflage on
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The researchers found some intriguing differences between how men and women respond to using ChatGPT. After using the chatbot for four weeks, female study participants were slightly less likely to socialize with people than their male counterparts who did the same. Meanwhile, participants who interacted with ChatGPT’s voice mode in a gender that was not their own for their interactions reported significantly higher levels of loneliness and more emotional dependency on the chatbot at the end of t
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Microplastics have been under the microscope lately, especially considering it's estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles yearly. That number goes up to 74,000 to 121,000 particles when you include those we breathe in. Microplastics have become such a part of our lives that a new study found a plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. That sounds bad, but exactly how bad is it? To dig deeper, we spoke with a family physician about
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A new report from the New York Times claims that the so-called “Longevity Mix” sold by Bryan Johnson, the anti-aging tech guru, has caused some users to report unwanted side-effects. Johnson, who runs Blueprint, a dietary supplement company, has been pushing its mixes as a way to stay healthy and live longer. According to the new report, however, many users reported that the supplements made them feel like they were going to hurl. The newspaper article’s main focus is Johnson’s use of confident
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Image by Bryan Johnson/Facebook/Futurism Studies An alarming new investigation by the New York Times accuses youth-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson of covering up some grim side effects experienced by participants testing his line of supplements. Johnson — who was an early investor in Futurism, but hasn't had any involvement for years — has gone to extreme lengths to slow down or even "reverse" his "biological age" through a series of sometimes extreme self-experiments, like using his teenage
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Many Americans choose to get their caffeine fix from coffee. An estimated 85% enjoy a cup or two every day. The caffeine jolt, however, could be too much for some, causing them to feel jittery and lose sleep. Green tea is a popular alternative. Not only is green tea better for you, but it also has about three times less caffeine than coffee. If you've been thinking about switching from coffee to green tea, read on to learn everything you need to know about green tea and its health benefits. Gr
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