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A single clinical trial of 40 children might have wrongly swayed medical evidence in favour of using Prozac to treat depression in children and adolescents, a group of researchers say.
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Is society losing the fight against hate speech? Psychologist Mirta Galesic discusses an increase in hateful comments online, and the science-backed way to react.
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A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.
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With prospects for new pancreatic cancer treatments at an all-time high, researchers are looking for ways to boost survival by treating the disease early.
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‘Agentic’, ‘prompt engineering’ and other technical terms are among the 1,400 entries added to Merriam-Webster’s online catalogue.
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A genus of soil-dwelling beetle discovered in Italy, and a glimpse at the wonders of the deep sea, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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