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  1. Tech

    Soft helpers and bio-inspired tech: a match made in robot heaven

    Hugging toys offer emotional support to anxious kids and slithering snake-like robots may bring rescue aid to people trapped in dangerous conditions.

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  2. Artificial Intelligence

    Teen’s software for spotting AI-generated text just got personal

    Rather than seeking generic signs of AI-generated text, it compares two texts to confirm they both share a writer’s unique style.

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  3. Math

    Meet one of the ‘world’s most interesting’ mathematicians

    Angela Tabiri uses her enthusiasm for math to inspire young people — and to highlight African female mathematicians on a YouTube channel.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Dad’s backyard lessons inspired this hearing scientist to learn

     A. Catalina Vélez-Ortega researches how proteins can protect against hearing loss.

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  5. Earth

    Earth farts may explain some spooky floating lights

    The gases released by earthquakes might occasionally ignite, triggering ghostly lights sometimes witnessed in South Carolina.

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  6. Fossils

    This paleontologist solved a nearly 50-year-old dino mystery 

    ReBecca Hunt-Foster described what is now the state dinosaur of Arkansas 

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  7. Health & Medicine

    2025’s Texas measles outbreak is a lesson in the value of vaccines

    The outbreak shows that a near absence of once-common childhood diseases — like measles — is not evidence that vaccines are unnecessary.

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  8. Science & Society

    Does your natural history museum need a makeover?

    A lot of their old-fashioned dioramas — a type of exhibit — are biased, boring or even unscientific. Here’s what modern museums are doing to fix that.

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  9. Science & Society

    Viewing math as a language might help it make sense to more of us

    It might also reduce the anxiety associated with using math, allowing people to better answer a host of important everyday questions.

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