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Tech Xplore / Social media giants face landmark trial over addiction claims
A landmark trial beginning this week in Los Angeles could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to addict children.
Phys.org / Q&A: Coexistence between humans and wild animals in Japan
Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear attacks to crop damage by wild animals. How should we interpret the current situation, and how should ...
Tech Xplore / Weather and latitude drive up green hydrogen costs for Nordic heavy transport, analysis finds
Green hydrogen produced using solar and wind power would be cheaper to produce at more southerly latitudes than in the Nordic region, according to a study from Linköping University. The results can be used as a basis for ...
Tech Xplore / Macron pushes for fast-track ban on social media for children under 15
French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants his government to fast-track the legal process to ensure that a ban on social media for children under the age of 15 can enter into force in September at the start of the next ...
Medical Xpress / Sleep-tracking devices have limits. Experts want users to know what they are
Your watch says you had three hours of deep sleep. Should you believe it?
Tech Xplore / Coinbase power play sparks crypto rift as key bill gets delayed
It was a rare White House rebuke to the crypto industry: Don't take your newfound political muscle in Washington for granted. A week after Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong helped stall sweeping ...
Medical Xpress / Flu cases are already high in SC but they may spike even higher soon
A winter storm is not the only thing to worry about in South Carolina. While flu cases have decreased since the first week of 2026, the state is still on alert for widespread flu activity. Latest data from the South Carolina ...
Medical Xpress / HHS pauses, then restores, $5 billion in state health grants
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified states on Jan. 24 that it would pause public health grants worth about $5 billion, then hours later said it would lift the halt. The grants were suspended to evaluate ...
Phys.org / Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution
When California neighborhoods increased their number of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) between 2019 and 2023, they also experienced a reduction in air pollution. For every 200 vehicles added, nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) levels ...
Phys.org / Dark energy survey scientists release analysis of all six years of survey data
The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation ...
Phys.org / Radio telescopes on the moon could let us observe dozens of black hole shadows
We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can observe. That is, unless we take radio astronomy ...
Phys.org / Unified framework sorts spacetime fluctuations for quantum-gravity experiments
A team of researchers led by the University of Warwick has developed the first unified framework for detecting "spacetime fluctuations"—tiny, random distortions in the fabric of spacetime that appear in many attempts to ...