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Uber and Lyft prices varied greatly according to a Consumer Reports study, despite identical ride requests made at the same time.

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Fluorescent proteins, seen inside this transparent Danionella fish, allow scientists to track processes in its brain and body. Researchers at a major brain sci…

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape…

News consumers worldwide are increasingly turning to social media and video platforms for information, overtaking traditional outlets for the first time, accor…

According to UNESCO, around 250 million children (16%) globally are out of school, although they are of an age to be at school in their countries. Available ev…

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A comparative modeling study of two Brazilian rain catchments suggests that climate change will have contrasting effects on future soil erosion in the Amazon a…