Governments are pushing teen social media bans—but behind the scenes is a messy fight over science

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As governments worldwide move to restrict teenagers’ access to smartphones and social media, a fierce scientific debate has erupted over whether these digital technologies actually harm…

Implementing topologically ordered time crystals on quantum processors

What do people think about smartglasses? New research reveals a complicated picture

Credit: Vika Glitter from Pexels Smartglasses, a type of wearable device, have evolved rapidly since the pioneering yet ill-fated Google Glass received social backlash in 2013. Early adopters were nicknamed…

AI Tool Reveals Long COVID May Affect 23% of People

Summary: A new AI tool identified long COVID in 22.8% of patients, a much higher rate than previously diagnosed. By analyzing extensive health records from nearly 300,000 patients, the algorithm…

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 136 — SpaceX Ascendant

SpaceX Ascendant – Can Anyone Compete? – YouTube Watch On On Episode 136 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with journalist and author Eric Berger…

Why Human Culture Never Stops Evolving

Summary: A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its “open-endedness.” Unlike animal cultures that reach…

Childhood Stress Disrupts Attention, Sleep, and Dopamine Balance in Adults

Summary: New research links childhood adversity with later attention deficits, sleep disruptions, and specific dopamine imbalances in the brain. Focusing on critical developmental windows, scientists found that disrupted care early…

First practical application of viscous electron flow realizes terahertz photoconductivity in graphene

Researchers develop promising new genetic breast cancer model

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Michigan State University researcher’s new model for studying breast cancer could help scientists better understand why and where cancer metastasizes. Professor who teaches in the…

How climate change affects health

Pakistan’s second biggest city Lahore recently recorded air pollution at a level 40 times level deemed acceptable by the WHO. Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread…