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That Time the Federal Government Was Ruled By Czars

How a term for Russian oligarchs came to be applied to American government officials.

  • By Tom Shoop
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Why Zoom Happy Hours Fall Flat

Booze and in-person gatherings just go together. Virtually, not so much.

  • By University of Pittsburgh, Futurity
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Vaccination to Prevent Dementia? New Research Suggests Viral Infections can Accelerate Neurodegeneration

Avoiding viruses over decades may help humans avoid Alzheimer's disease.

  • By Andrew Bubak, Diego Restrepo and Maria Nagel, The Conversation
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2022’s Billion-dollar Disasters: Climate Change Helped Make it US’s 3rd Most Expensive Year on Record

Climate change seems to be making natural disasters more expensive.

  • By Stacy Morford, The Conversation
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White House Blueprint is the Starting Point for Building Responsible AI

COMMENTARY | The report brings new urgency to ongoing agency efforts.

  • By Steve Mills and Sean Singer
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Parents in the US had Alarmingly High Rates of Anxiety, Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic—And That has a Direct Effect on Kids

Parents and children suffered untold mental health issues through COVID-19.

  • By Lucy (Kathleen) McGoron, The Conversation
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Combating Antisemitism Today: Holocaust Education in the Era of Twitter and TikTok

Social media has the power to amplify accurate, or inaccurate, information.

  • By Alan Marcus, The Conversation
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Implant That Turns Thought Into Action Appears Safe in Trial

The implants could allow humans to control robotic arms, legs and and assortment of other future devices with the power of thought alone.

  • By Juan Siliezar-Brown, Futurity
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Team Grabs Radio Signal from Most Distant Galaxy Yet

It's the equivalent of a look back nearly 9 billion years.

  • By SHIRLEY CARDENAS-MCG, Futurity
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Making risk work for you

Why cybersecurity risk management requires more than just threat mitigation.

  • By Suzanne Spaulding
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2023: The Year of Modern Government

COMMENTARY | Governments will need to embrace a people-first approach in their modernization journeys.

  • By Lorna Stark
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Beyond Section 230: A Pair of Social Media Experts Describes how to Bring Transparency and Accountability to the Industry

Section 230 is again in lawmakers' crosshairs.

  • By Robert Kozinets and Jon Pfeiffer, The Conversation
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NASA’s Busiest Year in Decades – An Astronomer Sums up the Dizzying Array of Missions in 2022

2022 was a giant step for NASA.

  • By Chris Impey, The Conversation
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Making an apology

On a trip to Taiwan, Steve Kelman reflects on the importance of apologies.

  • By Steve Kelman
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China Now Publishes More High-Quality Science Than Any Other Nation

COMMENTARY | Should the U.S. be worried?

  • By Caroline Wagner
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Ransomware and resilience

It's not how hard you get hit, an industry expert argues, but how quickly you get back up.

  • By James Langley
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Webb Telescope Reveals Super Early Milky Way-Like Galaxies

COMMENTARY | New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age.

  • By University of Texas at Austin
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Lessons from Taiwan's rise to dominate the computer chip industry

Steve Kelman notes that an assertive industrial policy can yield big wins for governments willing to invest and manage their investments.

  • By Steve Kelman
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Beyond Section 230: A Pair of Social Media Experts Describes How to Bring Transparency and Accountability to the Industry

COMMENTARY | We think change in Section 230 is coming – and we believe that it is long overdue.

  • By Robert Kozinets and Jon Pfeiffer
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Can Machine Learning Predict the Next Big Disaster?

A new study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics.

  • By Brown University
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