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Tech can empower home care workers, not just surveil them

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Employers often use workplace tracking apps to monitor frontline home health care workers, such as personal care aides, home health aides and certified nursing assistants. A team of Cornell researchers is exploring how these technologies…

New research examines PFAS contamination at Holloman Lake in New Mexico

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A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) has shared new research on the contamination at Holloman Lake in southern New Mexico. The team began studying PFAS contamination of wildlife at…

Imported ladybird beetles save Grenada's ice cream fruit

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When Laurel Williams thinks of soursop, she thinks of ice cream. Not just any ice cream, but the one made from the soursop she grows on her farm in Grenada, a small island nation in the Caribbean Sea.

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Three ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship

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When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That's when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored speech in various ways. It has tried to…

Northern lights could be visible again in some US states after weekend solar storms

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Northern lights may be visible in parts of the U.S. Monday night following weekend solar storms.

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life

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The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the signs of life—called biosignatures—that…

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