The safety reason TSA might ask you to turn on your phone
You may have heard about Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents asking someone to turn their smartphone on while going through security at an airport and think this is something new — but it isn't. This…
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NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #1248)
Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints. What should you do once you've…
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NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #982)
Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle , Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out…
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How microbes can secure the critical minerals the world needs
To expand renewable-energy technologies, electrify transport and build infrastructure for artificial intelligence, society must extract unprecedented quantities of minerals. Demand for many of these ‘critical minerals’…
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Why your physics project needs an anthropologist
For one-quarter of attendees to be social-science scholars is almost unprecedented. But that’s exactly what happens at meetings about the Tau Air-shower Mountain-based Observatory (TAMBO), a proposed detector to be built…
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PhD funding mechanisms should protect the right to disagree with supervisors
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Students need AI-free spaces to learn core skills
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PhDs worldwide are having a shake up — why now?
By the beginning of his project in electrical engineering and telecommunications at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, Wang had already established a connection with an industry partner to gather…
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The public trusts scientists with AI — more than it does anyone else
Credit: gorodenkoff/iStock via Getty Scientists are perceived as the group of people most likely to have a positive impact on society through their use of generative artificial intelligence, finds a survey published by…
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Some people are resistant to dementia — here’s what their genes can teach us
Brains of ‘super agers’ are strong producers of new neurons At first, she struggled to get funders interested. “For five years, all my grants were rejected,” she recalls. “Each time was a cup of poison.” But she…
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