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Your memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong – we’ve been asking the same people what they remember for 25 years
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The Netherlands forced Meta to let users ditch algorithmic feeds. Here’s what happened
On Tuesday, the Australian federal government announced a long-awaited amendment to the Online Safety Act,…
The listening gap is real — how AI might help teachers bridge it
A Grade 4 teacher showed her class a video of children who walk miles barefoot…
Meta can still collect data from kids
In August 2026, Meta agreed to one of the largest consumer protection settlements in American…
How to help your garden recover from a heatwave
UK gardens took a battering this summer as a heat dome settled over western Europe,…
New fossils show Tasmanian devils lived with people in outback Western Australia 45,000 years ago
Tasmanian devils are among Australia’s most distinctive mammals. Stocky, powerful and famously noisy, wild populations…
Africa’s rocks hold ancient stories. We need better ways to document and protect them
From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world’s oldest and largest known meteorite-impact structure)…
Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks
Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that…
American women in communities with ample broadband access lose less time waiting for services, reducing time poverty
Drawing on 14 years of data, we examined whether access to broadband internet could improve…