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Explicit content shows up in teenage and young adult books, with little warning. Could a book content rating system help?

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A new type of lens approved by the FDA promises to slow nearsightedness in children. These specialized glasses, available in ...

Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic by Saabira Chaudhuri (Blink Publishing) We all know about the toll plastic pollution is taking on the health of humans and the planet. Less well known ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is back. In 2024 we chatted with the gracious celebrity astrophysicist, lecturer, podcaster, and bestselling author regarding "Merlin's Tour of the Universe," a revised and updated ...

‘The reasonable mind must hold that our universe has one beginning,’ reads the thesis of the book, ‘God, the Science, the Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution.’ Entrepreneur and theologist Olivier ...

A new book written by two French mathematicians claims to give a definitive answer to a question that has been asked since the beginning of time: does God really exist? Science has traditionally been ...

Science books, especially those written by scientists, sometimes have the reputation of being dry, dull and difficult. Perhaps they are thought of as thinly disguised textbooks, something to learn ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...