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Top stories of 2025: Part 2

In November, Chan Su Choi, a 45-year-old Friday Harbor man, was convicted of four counts of rape of a child and four counts ...
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Master these subtle language shifts that separate naturally confident speakers from everyone else—and transform how people ...
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Researchers are increasingly finding that subtle shifts in everyday conversation can flag trouble in the brain long before classic memory problems appear. Instead of relying only on paper-and-pencil ...
Data science is a lot more creative than you think it is... For Zeina Alqasem, they speak the same language. Both are driven by interpretation, pattern, and the search for meaning — just through ...
The human brain is a truly remarkable organ. Whereas most animals have brains that correlate to the size of their bodies, human brains are much larger than they should be given our body sizes. What's ...
Vocal fry describes a raspy voice that can be natural, a habit, or a medical issue. Regular hydration and voice rest can help alleviate bothersome vocal fry. People, especially young women, may face ...