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Woman staring into space

Some people just can’t visualize things in their mind. We’re learning more all the time about the condition called ‘aphantasia.’

By Emiko Muraki and The Conversation

Group of senior women friends doing tai chi exercise outdoors in park.

Falls are the leading cause of injury in older adults. 5 balance exercises can help stave off some of the risk

By Evan Papa and The Conversation

3d high resolution render of a human head with neurons inside

Scientists can now measure the intensity of chronic pain using brain signals

By Prasad Shirvalkar and The Conversation

Unionized bodies in topless bar: How sex workers became the new frontier of the labor movement

By John Logan and The Conversation

LVIV REGION, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 22: Participant practice flying a drone, in this case to locate colleagues who were hiding and pretending to be enemy snipers, during a combat training day hosted by a local paramilitary civil formation called TSEL on February 22, 2023 in Lviv region, Ukraine. Paramilitary civil formations are the successor to the voluntary territorial defence units that emerged in the months before Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine to train civilians in combat tactics. Today TSEL fulfils a number of roles, including supplying its own colleagues who are fighting under the Ukrainian armed forces in the east, patrolling Lviv and its outskirts to enforce nightly curfews, and to provide basic military skills such as shooting, first aid, drone operation and combat tactics to interested civilians. Today’s training brought together former military service members who have not yet been mobilized for the war as well as civilians without previous military experience, including an industrial sewing machine repairman, a car mechanic and a legal consulting firm employee. February 24 will mark the first anniversary since Russia’s invasion. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Drone conflict is like the Wild West with each country playing by its own rules—and the tech is only getting more sophisticated

By The Conversation and Tara Sonenshine

UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 1970: Photo of Woody Guthrie Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Folk singing legend Woody Guthrie witnessed national debt debates in the 1940s and compared politicians to ‘hens a cacklin’

By Mark Allan Jackson and The Conversation

R2D2 on NYSE

Will ChatGPT-powered Wall Street end in disaster?

By Pawan Jain and The Conversation

The teenage years are linked to an increase in risk-taking.

Teenage brains are wired to love risky social media challenges. Parents can take 5 steps to protect them

By Elisa M. Trucco, Julie Cristello, and others

Jamie Dimon

War rooms, bailouts and fire alarms: Here’s how power players on Wall Street and K Street are preparing for the U.S. to default on the national debt

By John W. Diamond and The Conversation

Anthony Fauci

The COVID-19 pandemic cost the U.S. economy $14 trillion, new research finds

By Jakub Hlávka, Adam Rose, and others

Korean woman

South Korea’s ‘N-Po Generation’ of millennials have ‘given up’ and its feminist 4B Movement is refusing to date, marry or have kids

By Min Joo Lee and The Conversation

Baby gorilla

Gorillas show us how we can overcome childhood trauma

By Stacy Rosenbaum, Robin Morrison, and others

Joe Biden

A brief history of debt ceiling crises as the country struggles to raise the limit for the 79th time since 1917

By Raymond Scheppach and The Conversation

Jean-Luc Picard

Somehow, ‘Star Trek: Picard’ is one of the best depictions of the state of cybersecurity

By Richard Forno and The Conversation

Businessman hitting hammer on burning laptop in office.

Afraid you’ll lose your job to ChatGPT? You’re just the latest person in the last 200 years to become a ‘Luddite.’

By Andrew Maynard and The Conversation