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How Mental Health Apps Turn Emotional Confessions Into Data

Four mental health apps display nearly identical promises on their login screens: Wysa promises that users’ identities will remain “private,” Youper says conversations are “private and safe,” Happify says responses.

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Ancient Sex: Homo Erectus Interbred With Denisovans in China 400,000 Years Ago

We know that Homo erectus emerged in Africa and spread to Eurasia, where it survived until just 107,000 years ago – a mere eyeblink in terms of human evolution. In.

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Whales in the Strait of Gibraltar Compensate for Shipping Noise by Shouting

It can be said: We love whale song, whether because terrestrial apes are biologically prone to mellowing when hearing a water animal speaking or thanks to marketing. Fact is, you.

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Yawning Is Contagious Even in Utero, Science Is Surprised to Find

Playing Mozart to your belly may cure what ails you, but not your future child. There is no evidence that exposure to classical music boosts intelligence in infants let alone.

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Rebuilding Gaza's healthcare will take $10 billion over next five years, WHO says

According to the report, more than 1,800 healthcare facilities have been destroyed or damaged across the Strip, about 70 percent of medical equipment has been depleted and at least half.

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Imitation Over Extinction: The Bold Bet to Save Africa’s Leopards

Leopards are the most iconic of cats, in the fashion world. Ancient demonstrations of manliness awarded more points for killing lions mano-a-gatto but for coats, the rosettes win hands down..

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Israeli Reptile vs. Predator: who will save the Lebanon viper and Levant rat snake?

Half of Israel’s reptiles are endangered. But they can be saved: the Beer Sheva fringe fingered lizard and friends star in ‘The Red Book of Reptiles’, which began with surveys.

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4.7 magnitude earthquake off coast of Lebanon felt in northern Israel

The epicenter of the earthquake was off the coast of Sidon in southern Lebanon, and while no casualties or damage were reported, a recent State Comptroller’s report says that Israel.

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Underground Lies a Hidden World We’re Only Starting to Understand. Welcome to the Age of the Mushroom

Fungi are all around us, all the time – spreading their network of filaments in silence over vast spaces, beneath the soil; sprouting in foggy conditions and launching their reproductive.

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‘We Warned About It’: Doctors Are Leaving Israel in Growing Numbers

After many years of relative stability in migration patterns, statistics point to a departure from this trend, according to a recently-published study from Tel Aviv University which sheds light on.

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