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Latinos Drive $1 Trillion Surge in California’s Economy

If California’s Latino population were its own economy, it would rank among the world’s largest. A new report from UCLA and California Lutheran University reveals that California Latinos generated ...
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After a single distraction — a text message, a Slack ping — research suggests it takes roughly 23 minutes on average to fully return to the depth of focus you had before ...

A paper day planner beside a smartphone. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels, used as a representative image. A message flashes in the corner of a screen. Answering it takes perhaps 20 seconds. Yet a ...
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People Prefer Human Empathy Over AI, Even When Identical

Even when artificial intelligence generates the exact same empathetic response as a human, people value it less simply because they know it came from a machine. A sweeping new study involving over ...
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You never see the Sun as it is, only as it was: its light takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to cross the 150 million kilometres to Earth — so if the Sun blinked out, we ...

You have never seen the Sun. Not the real one, not the one that exists at the moment you look up. What reaches your eye is a version of the Sun that is already gone ...
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Soil organic matter ran 3.61 percent on north Texas multi-paddock ranches against about 2.4 percent under heavy continuous grazing, but a 2026 review found no carbon gain in ...

Texas multi-paddock ranches held 3.61 per cent soil organic matter, 2.4 under heavy continuous grazing. A 2026 review's best studies found no carbon gain.
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The story of edible 3,000-year-old tomb honey is poorly documented, but honey really does resist spoilage

This is one of the most widely repeated claims on the internet, and it welds together two things of very different quality. One is the chemistry of why honey resists spoilage, which is real, ...
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A honey bee stinger removed from the bee keeps pumping venom on its own as a double-piston pump, high-speed video of stingers in a clear skin-like gel shows

A honey bee’s stinger left behind in skin after a sting. The detached apparatus can keep working on its own for a short time. Photo: Waugsberg / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A honey bee stinger ...
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Animated Films Perpetuate Harmful Stereotypes About Eye Conditions

In the colorful world of animated films, every character detail is intentionally chosen. When researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine examined how characters with strabismus were ...
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Over roughly 150 years, Dutch men gained about 20 centimetres in average height, while American men — who had started 5 to 8 centimetres taller — gained only about six ...

Representative group portrait for an article about population height trends. The people pictured were not part of the historical datasets, and the image does not identify their nationality. Photo by ...
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Hidden Deep Earth Blobs May Explain Why Our Planet Came Alive

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The illustration shows a cutaway revealing ...