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Melanie Livingstone

Science & Technology Writer

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A new NYU tool turns your language history into a multilingualism score and a dominance measure, aiming to standardize how multilingualism is described.
Are you truly multilingual? A new calculator has the answer
Explore how online fundraising is changing global generosity with AI tools, social sharing, and community-driven campaigns.
The rise of online fundraising in a digital age
A Mediterranean-style diet may slow memory decline and reduce dementia risk
Mediterranean diet can slow memory decline and reduce dementia risk
NIST researchers have built a prototype quantum device that measures volts, ohms, and amps together, promising more accurate and accessible electrical standards.
Scientists build first quantum device to measure volts, ohms, and amps together
Nigerian food plants show promise in cancer therapy through natural compounds that fight tumors and reduce inflammation.
Scientists identify nine Nigerian plants with powerful anticancer effects
Because they have barely been exposed to the world, children are some of psychology's most powerful muses
Researchers find that moral instincts may be present from birth
Prof. Tal Dvir says the first recipient of the new technology will be Israeli
Israeli scientists to perform the world’s first human spinal cord transplant surgery
A child’s skull discovered in Israel reveals humans and Neanderthals were mixing 100,000 years earlier than thought
Humans and Neanderthals interbred 100,000 years earlier than previously thought
Researchers at La Trobe University have developed a highly conductive new material capable of carrying electricity with exceptional efficiency.
Invisible material brings a new era of touch screens and wearable devices
TGFs are brief but powerful emissions of high-energy photons linked to lightning activity.
Gamma-rays trigger lightning and alter atmospheric chemistry
Painting dating from 1851 entitled 250 “Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow” by Adolph Northen, depicting the conditions of the retreat of Napoleon's army.
New DNA findings reveal what really stopped Napoleon’s army in 1812
JWST shows galaxies built thick discs first, then thin discs, revealing secrets of cosmic evolution over 10 billion years.
JWST discovery helps answer how galaxies, like our own Milky Way, were born
Rare diseases affect small numbers of people, but there are many of them.
Solve-RD project helps scientists solve 500 extremely rare disease cases
A new international study shows that Bolivia’s Uturuncu volcano's unrest is driven by fluid migration
New research shows why Bolivia’s ‘Zombie’ volcano is stirring after 250,000 years