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Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been detected in human blood, lungs, placentas, arteries and even the brain. But a ...

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Researchers who are using generative AI to write scientific papers are publishing a significantly higher number of studies, a new analysis finds (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3000). The ...

One killed, one injured on Route 24 in a single-vehicle crash A Madison man died in a single-vehicle crash around 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12. Arthur L. Brackett, 62, was in the passenger seat of a ...

Scientists reveal the real benefits and hidden risks of medical cannabis A major review finds medical cannabis widely overestimated and potentially risky, with real benefits limited to only a few ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Gaming science reveals how video games boost cognitive skills like memory and attention, with NIH studies showing gamers perform like people years younger. Pixabay, Vika_Glitter Video games have long ...

Although millions of Americans use cannabis for medical reasons, new research suggests that there is not enough evidence to support much of that medicinal use. The research, published in the Journal ...

Exercise strengthens both the body and the mind, and researchers are uncovering the molecular messengers that make the connection. The messengers can also be transferred from an active mouse to a ...

When Alisa Perales was a year old she began learning her ABC’s and 123’s. By the time she was 4, she could name the capitals of the world and the bones in a human body. Now at 11 years old, she’s ...

Starting my computer science studies in my freshman year, I only needed to worry about the semicolon at the end of each line of code. With full honesty, computer science wasn't even a major I started ...