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High school gamers are scoring college scholarships. But can esports make varsity?

The esports boom has reached high schools, where students are forming teams and districts are weighing the benefits. Esports startups see opportunity.

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Everyday people: How a massive picture database sparked a discussion about AI and bias

After an art project showed how AI can categorize people in offensive ways, a major research database is discarding half its images of people.

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Apple's privacy battle against rival tech giants is coming to your home screen

Apple on Thursday released the latest version of its iPhone operating system, which includes a new feature meant to notify people when apps are tracking them in unexpected ways.

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Mysterious 'alien megastructure' star may not be so special after all

Astronomers found more than a dozen stars that display similarly mystifying behavior.

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U.S., Canada have lost 3 billion birds. Scientists say 'nature is unraveling.'

"It's an empty feeling in your stomach that these same birds that you grew up with just aren't there anymore."

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Pinky bone DNA yields first portrait of extinct human relative

The Denisovan girl is shown with dark hair, piercing eyes and a broad face.

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New 'blackest black' material absorbs 99.995 percent of light

"It was unexpected — like a proper scientific discovery."

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Plenty of Fish bans users from posting photos with face filters

According to the dating site's poll, 25 percent said they believe potential dates are "pretending to be someone they're not."

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Greta Thunberg tells Congress: 'Unite behind the science'

"I am submitting this report as my testimony because I don't want you to listen to me," the 16-year-old said. "I want you to listen to the scientists."

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Smart TVs, smart-home devices found to be leaking sensitive user data

"Nearly all TV devices in our testbeds contacts Netflix even though we never configured any TV with a Netflix account," the researchers wrote.

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We keep looking for space aliens. Are they looking for us?

An intelligent species of extraterrestrials might have telescopes far more powerful than ours.

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My night stranded at one of Greenland's fastest-melting glaciers

I was reporting on climate change at a glacier. Then I got stuck there.

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Explorer says he reached the deepest part of the ocean. James Cameron disagrees.

The filmmaker hailed Victor Vescovo's miles-deep dive but said he had dived just as deep.

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Scientists discover most massive neutron star ever seen

A sugar-cube's worth of the dead star's material has a mass of about 100 million tons.

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Current ozone hole could be one of the smallest in 30 years

Current ozone hole could be one of the smallest in 30 years, according to Copernicus.

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Huge, mysterious 'bubbles' discovered at the heart of the Milky Way

The radio-emitting bubbles are near our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

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Fake gravity and 'supersized basketball': A look inside the space hotel experience

The planned Von Braun Station could open as soon as 2027.

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Scientists win Ig Nobel prize for testing temperature of testicles

The Ig Nobel prizes are for experiments which "make you laugh then make you think"

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Watch again: Behind the scenes broadcast from CERN

A special live broadcast from CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, where scientists are trying to unlock the secrets of our universe.

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With confetti and push notifications, stock app Robinhood nudges investors toward risk

"I liken it to giving the keys of a sports car to a 12-year-old," said Tara Falcone, a certified financial planner and the founder of ReisUP, a financial education company.