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Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, was the first prominent candidate to announce a challenge to former President Donald J. Trump's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.Since entering the race in February, Ms. Haley has weighed in on social issues and tapped into her experience as a former United Nations ambassador under Mr. Trump to criticize current U.S. foreign policy.

There have been increasingly loud public warnings that social media is harming teenagers' mental health most recently from the United States surgeon general adding to many parents' fears about what all the time spent on phones is doing to their children's brains.While many scientists share the concern, there is little research to prove that social media is harmful or to indicate which sites, apps or features are problematic.

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to lower the recommended age for using its Quest headset to 10 years old from 13 years old, the company said in a blog post on Friday, a move that could set off new privacy and safety concerns with parents and global watchdogs.The company is discussing its plans with regulators, two people familiar with Meta's conversations said, and is trying to assuage immediate concerns over whether younger children using the headset could be subject to greater risk.

In the gym, on medical and wellness websites and on social media, the phrase boost your metabolism gets thrown around a lot.Supplement marketers promise pills to make it happen, health mavens pinky swear their diet routine will rev the rate, and probably most of us, starting around our 30s, think that aging has reduced the efficiency of our metabolic engine.

1. The Playbook for Data Sharing for Research report provides a comprehensive overview of the different approaches to sharing data for research purposes. 2. The report includes guidance on best practices for data sharing, including considerations for privacy, security, transparency, and accountability. 3. The Playbook also includes an infographic

1. The Playbook for Data Sharing for Research report provides a comprehensive overview of the different approaches to sharing data for research purposes. 2. The report includes guidance on best practices for data sharing, including considerations for privacy, security, transparency, and accountability. 3. The Playbook also includes an infographic

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Most of the time, California's waves are safe for swimmers and surfers to enjoy, but water quality experts warn there are certain times - and certain spots - that beachgoers may want to avoid.Heal the Bay outlines those locations in its annual report card of the state's beaches.

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Although California may be enjoying a lull in this year's wildfire season - courtesy of a wet winter and a cool spring - scientists say humanity's relentless burning of fossil fuels has ensured that wildland fires will scorch ever larger portions of the state, perhaps as much as 52% more by midcentury.

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California schools districts are largely on track to spend billions of dollars in pandemic aid before their 2024 deadline - with much of the funding targeting summer and after-school learning - but questions persist over how well the money is being spent to help students make up ground academically, researchers have concluded.

On a recent morning about an hour outside Phoenix, the pounding of tribal drums reverberated across the desert from a stand of oaks in the Tonto National Forest, where nearly 20 men had packed into a squat green sweat lodge to pray.Members of several Native American tribes, the men had come to take part in the grueling spiritual ceremony under the guidance of Wendsler Nosie Sr., a 64-year-old Apache elder who has emerged in recent years as an influential religious and environmental activist - not only in this small pocket of Arizona, but nationally.

In 2017 Ray Kaplan, a parasitologist and veterinarian then at the University of Georgia, started receiving e-mails from colleagues around the U.S. asking for help with resistant parasitic infections in dogs.The parasites were hookworms, a group of roundworm species that target animals and humans.Kaplan specializes in livestock animals, not pets.

This provision ignores scientific consensus that conditions like depression don't "cause" someone to be trans.These screenings don't provide access to gender-affirming care for trans youth; rather, they erect a formidable barrier to even obtaining mental health care.StockRocket / Getty Images In a concerning turn of events, Ohio has become the newest addition to the growing list of states progressing gender affirming care bans for transgender youth out of legislative committees.

The new podcast " You Didn't See Nothin " takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Armour Square neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in the Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19.

Members of the activist group Rise And Resist gather in a silent protest inside the World Trade Center on September 12, 2019.Erik McGregor / LightRocket / Getty Images This story was originally published at Prism.CW: This story includes descriptions of torture in immigrant detention and mentions of death by suicide At least three facilities operated by the private prison company CoreCivic systematically use torture as retaliation against immigrants who denounce the conditions of detention, according to advocates, attorneys, researchers, and detainees.

Thousands of dead fish washed up on the gulf coast of Texas over the weekend, and massive globs of seaweed carrying plastic pollution infested with flesh-eating bacteria are raising public health concerns at Florida's famous beaches.Like a cat leaving a mangled rat on the doorstep, the oceans seem to be trying to get our attention.

Astronomers can measure how fast stars spin by observing starquakesseismic tremors that are the equivalent of earthquakes on our planet.Yet these observations have posed a puzzle because many stars seem to be spinning slower than they should be.In a new study, researchers modeled how a magnetic field could grow in the internal layers of a star, dragging its rotation down.

In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments.I wanted to know the degrees of freedom that flowers have in producing colors to signal to bees.He replied, rather furiously, that he was not going to engage in a discussion with me, because I worked in a neurobiological laboratory where invasive procedures on live honeybees were performed.

Neuroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time.They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game.As social animals, however, those same scientists do much of their work togetherbrainstorming hypotheses, puzzling over problems and fine-tuning experimental designs.

Generative artificial intelligence is set to add up to $4.4 trillion of value to the global economy annually, according to a report from McKinsey Global Institute, in what is one of the rosier predictions about the economic effects of the rapidly evolving technology.Generative A.I., which includes chatbots such as ChatGPT that can generate text in response to prompts, can potentially boost productivity by saving 60 to 70 percent of workers' time through automation of their work, according to the 68-page report, which was published early Wednesday.

Germany has returned two wooden masks of the indigenous Kogi community to Colombia but conceded that wearing the sacred artefacts in ceremonies may come with a health risk because they were treated with toxic pesticides during their time in German museums.The masks, which date back to the mid-15th century and have been held in ethnological collections in Berlin for over a century, were handed over to Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, by his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a ceremony in Berlin on Friday.

Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst whose unauthorized release of the top-secret Pentagon Papers triggered court battles over freedom of the press and led to calamity for the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, has died.One of America's most famous whistleblowers, Ellsberg died Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif., his family said his death in a statement to the New York Times.

On June 27, 2010, the FBI arrested 10 Russian spies who lived and worked as American professionals near New York City.The case, which unraveled an intricate system of false identities and clandestine meetings, exposed one of the largest spy networks in the U.S. since the Cold War ended and inspired the show The Americans.

In December, the University of Alaska Anchorage will offer free pregnancy tests in bars Alaska has one of the highest rates of fetal alcohol syndrome in the country This state-funded effort will measure the effectiveness of tests Experts are always looking for creative ways to increase awareness about public health problems.

ChatGPT has captured people's attention and made them curious about how the chatbot could change how they search for information and do other online tasks.However, as they start using the internet in new ways, are they overlooking possible safety risks?One of the most-talked-about dangers of ChatGPT is its "hallucination" problem.

Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur on the Isle of Wight for the first time in 142 years.Vectipelta barretti, which belongs to a group of plant-eating dinosaurs known as ankylosaur, was found in the island's Wessex Formation a fossil site dating back to somewhere between 145 to 66 million years ago.

A new species of dinosaur with an armoured body has been discovered on the Isle of Wight for the first time in 142 years.Belonging to a group of plant-eating dinosaurs known as ankylosaur, its remains were found in the island's Wessex Formation a fossil site dating back to somewhere between 145 to 66 million years ago.

Worldwide temperatures briefly exceeded a key warming threshold earlier this month, a hint of heat and its harms to come, scientists worry.The mercury has since dipped again, but experts say the short surge marked a new global heat record for June and indicates more extremes ahead as the planet enters an El Nino phase that could last years.

Last November the spring weather in South America jumped from cold to searing.Usually at that time of year people would have been holding backyard barbecues, or asados, in the lingering evening light.But on December 7 the temperature in northern Argentina, near the borders of Bolivia and Paraguay, hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest places on Earth.

June 15, 2023 - Amid a recent wave of policies targeting LGBTQ populations across the U.S., a Harvard collaborative focused on LGBTQ health is doubling down on its work-studying the health impacts of the new policies, churning out hundreds of studies, developing mentoring programs to support up-and-coming trainees, creating a new reproductive health seminar series, and engaging in advocacy work.

Teens in the US are suffering.The reasons are many, including the lingering effects of the pandemic, fears stemming from unrelenting school shootings, and anguish about climate change.As a result, suicide rates have skyrocketed over the last decade, with suicide now the second leading cause of death among teens.

After the global pandemic forced many young adults to move back in with their parents, a new study suggests that they're ready to test the housing market again.LendingTree, an online loan marketplace, analyzed about 3.4 million mortgage purchase requests on its platform during 2022 and found that Gen Z-ers made up nearly 15 percent of potential home buyers across the nation's 50 largest metro areas.

Bluestreak cleaner wrasses are entrepreneurial fish.This tiny, shiny species sets up shop in coral reefs, where it eats parasites off of client fish, some of them big and hungry.It's a dangerous business that requires impeccable social skills.No wonder, then, that these fish can identify other individuals by their facesand even recognize their own, according to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Biologist Roger Payne aboard a research vessel in 2002.His discovery that whales can sing galvanized a movement to end commercial whaling.(Christopher Johnson/Ocean Alliance/AP)Roger Payne, a biologist who put his ear to the ocean and pioneered the study of whale songs, recording the creatures' hypnotic, intricately patterned vocalizations - haunting wails, birdlike chirps, playful squeals and mournful moos - for a hit album that galvanized the anti-whaling movement and seemed to suggest the animals had a far richer inner life than previously imagined, died June 10 at his home in South Woodstock, Vt.

Speaking of non-location in the seas, researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz, NOAA Fisheries, and Global Fishing Watch are trying to use the absence of data to identify boats fishing illegally.Harry Stevens for The Washington Post has the maps showing when fishermen turned off their transponders to hide location.

Clinical trials are critical in developing and approving new medical treatments and technologies.These trials generate massive data that needs to be managed efficiently and accurately to ensure patient safety and successful research outcomes.The good news is that advances in AI and automation technology, such as AI-based data extraction, virtual clinical trials, and predictive analytics, are making it easier for clinical trial managers to streamline their clinical trial Data Management processes and gain insights that can help improve patient outcomes.

CLIMATEWIRE | The amount of land scorched by wildfires in California has been on the rise for decades, and human-caused climate change is almost entirely to blame.A new study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that California's summertime burned area has increased fivefold since 1971.

During Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's recent visit to Washington D.C., as he announced that the U.K. would host the first global summit on AI regulation later this year, he bristled in response to a reporter's question about whether the midsize country could naturally lead the debate, given that the E.U. is close to passing a landmark AI bill.

Cyclone Biparjoy was crawling along the Arabian Sea with hurricane strength winds and appeared to be on a path toward the border of Pakistan and India, where the authorities have ordered tens of thousands of residents to evacuate before the storm makes landfall on Thursday.The cyclone, whose name means disaster in Bengali, had fluctuated between the equivalent of a Category 1 and Category 2 hurricane, with winds ranging from 90 to 100 miles per hour early on Wednesday.

It's not sexy, but it's true: the most important part of policy is implementation.It is all well and good to have bill signing ceremonies, such as when President Joe Biden the Inflation Reduction Act.But legislation only creates the opportunity for social change.Federal legislation like the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act could be game changers or duds.

On Reddit forums, many users discussing mental health have enthused about their interactions with ChatGPTOpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot, which conducts humanlike conversations by predicting the likely next word in a sentence.ChatGPT is better than my therapist, one user wrote, adding that the program listened and responded as the person talked about their struggles with managing their thoughts.

Around the world, most of the 1.4 billion tons of food thrown away each year goes to landfills.As it rots, it pollutes water and soil and releases huge amounts of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases.But not in South Korea, which banned food scraps from its landfills almost 20 years ago.

On Tuesday, an autopsy report shared with The New York Times showed that the Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie, who was found dead in May, was eight months pregnant and in labor at the time of her death.She was 32 years old.The report identified complications of childbirth as the cause of death, listing eclampsia and respiratory distress as possible factors.