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Artificial light at night creates skyglow, disrupts wildlife, suppresses melatonin, and has brightened Earth's nights by 16% since 2014. Here's how it works and what can be done.
Science
Cluster munitions scatter hundreds of explosive submunitions across wide areas. Their high failure rates turn battlefields into minefields for decades...
Science
Connectomics is the science of mapping every neural connection in a brain. From the 302-neuron worm mapped in the 1980s to the fruit fly's 130,000 neu...
Science
The glymphatic system is a recently discovered waste-clearance network that flushes toxic proteins from the brain during sleep, with major implication...
Science
Aboriginal Australians are Earth's oldest civilization outside Africa. Reaching their continent required crossing open ocean on simple rafts — the ear...
Science
PFAS are a vast family of synthetic chemicals found in everything from cookware to drinking water. Their near-indestructible carbon-fluorine bonds let...
Economy
Ceasefires are meant to halt fighting and open the door to peace, but roughly 80 percent collapse. Here's how they are negotiated, monitored, and why...
Culture
Vietnam is governed by a unique political system where the Communist Party holds all power through a collective leadership model known as the 'four pi...
Science
Pretend play was long considered uniquely human, but a landmark bonobo study suggests imagination evolved millions of years ago. Here's how make-belie...
Technology
Memristors are the long-theorized fourth fundamental circuit element that can store data and compute simultaneously. A recent breakthrough in extreme-...
Technology
Foldable smartphones rely on flexible OLED panels, ultra-thin glass, and precision hinges to bend without breaking — but eliminating the visible creas...
Science
Quantum decoherence is the process by which qubits lose their quantum properties through environmental interaction, and it remains the single biggest...
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