Humans

  1. Tech

    Scientists enlist computers to hunt down fake news

    Who can you trust? What can you believe? Scrolling through a news feed can make it hard to decide what’s real from what’s not. Computers, however, tend to do better.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Parasitic worms sicken people in the mainland United States

    A worm native to Asia has sickened at least 12 people in eight continental U.S. states since 2011, a new report finds.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Study links weight to when the school bell rings

    Teens and preteens who started school earlier in the morning were slightly heavier than those who started later, in a large study of Canadian students.

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  4. Environment

    Air pollution is shortening lives worldwide

    Worldwide, tiny particles of air pollution are making the average person’s life a year shorter.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Crickets for breakfast?

    In a small trial, levels of beneficial gut bacteria rose in young adults who ate a breakfast that included crickets every day for two weeks.

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  6. Psychology

    Phones in the classroom hurt everyone’s grades

    When students use electronic devices in the classroom, their school performance may suffer. And so might their classmates’ grades, a new study finds.

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  7. Animals

    Cool Jobs: Sucking up science with mosquitoes

    Mosquitoes are tiny, but the illnesses they spread can be deadly. To fight these germ spreaders, scientists need to get to know mosquitoes better — much better.

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  8. Brain

    Body heat due to exercise may reduce hunger

    Why aren’t animals hungry after a workout? Brain cells that control appetite may sense the exercise heat — and keep you out of the kitchen, a new study finds.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Gut ‘bug’ transplants can bring kids with autism lasting benefits

    Giving fecal transplants to kids with autism helped their stomach symptoms and behavioral symptoms — even two years after the poop trade.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Explainer: What is a clinical trial?

    Scientists perform these to compare the effects of a new drug or therapy in treated — and untreated — people. Always people.

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  11. Archaeology

    Cremated remains hint at who was buried at Stonehenge

    A chemical analysis shows that people carried bodies from far away to be buried at the mysterious ancient monument known as Stonehenge.

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  12. Brain

    Soccer headers may hurt women’s brains more than men’s

    Women sustain more brain damage from heading soccer balls than men, a new imaging study indicates.

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