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Jan 15 2025POLITICS

Court Debates Texas Law on Adult Websites and Minors

Imagine you're in a room full of the highest judges in the land, debating whether a law in Texas should be allowed to stand. This law is about keeping kids away from adult content online, but it's causing a stir. The porn industry, with the help of a big civil rights group, says this law goes too fa

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Jan 15 2025HEALTH

Tremor Types: Seeing the Difference in the Brain

Essential Tremor (ET) is a common condition where people experience shakiness, especially during movement. Some people with ET also have tremors when they're resting, which is known as resting ET or rET. While we know ET changes the brain's white matter, we don't know much about the differences betw

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Jan 14 2025RELIGION

Pope Francis' Memoir: 'Hope' Now Available in 80 Countries

Pope Francis' new autobiography, 'Hope, ' has just hit bookstores in 80 countries worldwide. This book, co-written with Italian writer Carlo Musso, offers readers a firsthand look into the Pope's life, from his Italian roots and family's journey to Latin America, through his childhood and early adul

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Jan 14 2025TECHNOLOGY

Detecting Propaganda in News with Hierarchical Graphs

Social media has become a hotbed for spreading facts, false claims, and propaganda, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are great at processing language, but detecting propaganda is tricky because of the complexity of text interactions and the need to understand cont

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Jan 13 2025SCIENCE

The Power of Ions: How They Affect Graphene Supercapacitors

Graphene-based supercapacitors are impressive in storing energy. But understanding how ions interact at the nanoscale with graphene is still puzzling scientists. To solve this, researchers used two types of graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs), one with no substrate (SF-GFETs) and another with

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Jan 12 2025ENTERTAINMENT

Why Did Captain Pike Ditch Holographic Communicators?

In the early days of Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet ships used a nifty tech called holographic communicators. These communicators let ships talk to each other with colorful, floating holograms. But in the thirty-second century, these communicators vanish from the show. So, what happened? It turns

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Jan 11 2025POLITICS

A War Photo Redefines Ukrainian Identity

Imagine a photo from the heart of Ukraine's conflict: soldiers dressed in armor, chuckling and smoking around a simple table. This photo, unlike the usual war images filled with cannon fire and pain, has captured Ukraine’s attention and praise. The photo, taken in late 2023 by French photographer Ém

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Jan 11 2025EDUCATION

Young People Off Track: How Location Impacts Their Futures

Imagine a group of young people, aged 15 to 29, who aren't in school, at work, or in training programs. We call them NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). They are a big concern for the European Union (EU). Experts have taken a closer look at where these young people live and how their l

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Jan 11 2025HEALTH

Detecting MCI: A New Approach Using Brain and Genetic Data

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a crucial early warning sign for Alzheimer's disease. Yet, many current methods only focus on brain images, ignoring other valuable data like genetics and clinical info. This can lead to a lot of noise in the data, making it hard to spot the real patterns. To fix t

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Jan 11 2025ENTERTAINMENT

Sports in Surprising Settings: A Photographer's Adventure

Ever wondered what skiers would look like on sand dunes? Or how about tennis players on Utah's salt flats? Four pro photographers, Dani KM, Anouk Flesch, Little Shao, and Ray Demski, partnered with Nikon Europe to answer these questions. They used the new Nikon Z6 III camera to shoot athletes in unu

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