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Expert opinion on AI, automation, and the future of work
- Mar 21, 2026
What would happen if AI becomes capable of performing essentially all economically valuable work? In a wide-ranging Q&A, Yale economist Pascual Restre...
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Scientific discoveries and research
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Critically endangered monkey gives birth after surgery saves her foot
- Mar 21, 2026
A critically endangered monkey has given birth just months after pioneering surgery saved her from undergoing an amputation. Masaya, a 15-year-old rol...
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Seattle tried to guarantee higher pay for delivery drivers. Here's why it didn't work as intended
- Mar 21, 2026
If you've ever ordered food through DoorDash, Uber Eats or Instacart, you may have realized the person who delivers it isn't a salaried employee. They...
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Saturday Citations: Merging brown dwarfs, ancient machine guns, gravitational wave detection
- Mar 21, 2026
This week, among a lot of other important findings, we learned that emperor cichlid fish have gaze sensitivity and dislike it if you look at them—or e...
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Kimchi-derived probiotic found to promote binding and excretion of intestinal nanoplastics
- Mar 21, 2026
A lactic acid bacterium isolated from kimchi may help promote the removal of nanoplastics from the body by binding to them in the intestine. Nanoplast...
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Physicists find electronic agents that govern flat band quantum materials
- Mar 21, 2026
Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of systems in which electron mo...
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Youth leaving foster care with strong emotional support face lower incarceration odds
- Mar 21, 2026
Youth in foster care often experience family instability, which can disrupt the continuity of their relationships and social connections. Therefore, t...
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March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records
- Mar 21, 2026
A burst of unusual March heat is hitting the United States this week and into next, busting previous monthly heat records by wide margins. While heat...
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Addressing the Achilles' heel of marine protected areas
- Mar 21, 2026
New research led by James Cook University (JCU) emphasizes that the success of marine protected areas (MPAs) depends largely on understanding and infl...
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You probably agree with animals on which bird calls, frog noises and cricket chirps are most attractive—new study
- Mar 21, 2026
Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns—from...
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Feeling you belong may keep scientists in ornithology, study suggests
- Mar 21, 2026
Across the sciences, researchers are asking why so many scientists leave their fields. A new study from Virginia Tech suggests at least part of the an...
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Sweden's 'old‑growth' natural forests store 83% more carbon than managed woodlands—new study
- Mar 21, 2026
Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, and timber. The few remai...