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Age gates can be staggeringly counterproductive, pushing kids to darker corners of the web. Closing loopholes will only make ...

But I can’t help thinking that pet loss in childhood might be different. It’s often the first time a child confronts death.

C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say ...

DARPA is funding a redoubled effort to develop a shelf-stable substitute for what field medics and trauma doctors need most: ...

In this age of rising electricity demand, people are trying to squeeze every last bit of power out of every power plant ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 5 million people around the world. And until now, no treatment could ...

The Chinese company is making liquid-solid hybrid cells to pack more power into products like electric cars and cargo ships.

Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an ...

Advances in AI offer tantalizing glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. The question is ...

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The company is building charging infrastructure and leasing its vehicles to help boost EV adoption in Rwanda and Kenya.