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Excessive scrolling through social media or viral videos can mess with your mental health — and possibly alter your brain’s development, studies show.
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Scientists Say: Cave Popcorn
This type of cave formation can occur as glossy, soaplike bubbles or as a bristly, cauliflower-like clusters.
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Analyze This: Primates may have evolved in the cold
Scientists thought the ancestor of humans and apes lived in the tropics. A new study points to a chilly location instead for primate evolution.
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Build your own seismograph with this science activity
By recording earthquakes, seismographs help scientists better understand and hopefully predict quakes.
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As winters warm, athletes must cope with harder snow and tricky ice
Ice arenas and artificial snow now dominate the winter Olympics. Athletes there — and everywhere — may need to adjust how they train and perform.
