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Why Do People Believe in Ghost Stories?
One question for Iris Berent, an Israeli-American cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University.
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Why We Need Muck to Fight Rising Sea Levels
We’ve starved marshes of their essential sediment—now can we repair them in time?
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How Can We Spot Fake Product Reviews?
One question for Brett Hollenbeck, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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AI Is Terrible at Detecting Misinformation. It Doesn’t Have to Be
A look at Elon Musk’s predicament at Twitter, and how AI might help.
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Where Have All the Snow Crabs Gone?
Eleven billion crabs vanished. Is climate change really to blame?
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The Mystery of the Blue Whale Songs
Earth’s largest animals are singing in ever-lower tones, and nobody knows why.
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Is COVID-19 Becoming Less Polarizing?
One question for Sara Constantino, a psychologist and public policy researcher at Northeastern University.
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Making Sense of Big Ocean Data
Ocean conservation science is experiencing a data explosion—but can we utilize it properly?
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The Invasion of the Super Insects
New generations of insects are devouring Earth’s forests. Humans helped breed them—can we help stop them?
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Can Organoids Take Us into a New Era of Medicine?
Meet the human cell-based models that are better, faster, cheaper—and more ethical to use—than animals.
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Does Consuming Cannabis Boost Creativity?
One question for Christopher Barnes, a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Washington.
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Coral Restoration Goes Big
Saving reefs is possible—but there are challenges.
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Is AI Art Really Art?
What it will mean to be moved by an AI’s mindless creativity.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty
I now realize Heisenberg and Schrödinger are less like physicists and more like therapists.
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Do Political Ads Influence Voting Behavior?
One question for Donald Green, a political scientist at Columbia University.
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How It Feels to Surf the World’s Biggest Wave
Riding Earth’s mighty forces in Nazaré, Portugal.
