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Pomegranate for skin health: exploring nature's potential

Despite pomegranate’s long history as both a food and a traditional remedy, consumers in today’s nutricosmetics market are seeking indisputable evidence of its efficacy

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Oct 23 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com
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MU still discussing possible hotel, entertainment district and student housing to enhance game-day experience

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is still exploring several commercial development options on university-owned property as it looks to enhance the game-day experience and provide more amenities for students, faculty and staff. UM System President Mun Choi said during a faculty council meeting on Thursday that the university is considering an entertainment district,

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Oct 22 • 8:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • abc17news.com
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University of New Haven Student Explores the Power of Peer Support in

University of New Haven Master of Public Health student Donrine Adeyinka Theo Harding ’28 MPH reflects on a Born This Way Foundation event exploring how peer support, mental health education, and mean

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Oct 22 • 3:33 PM EDT • Health • newhaven.edu
Exploring Careers in Health Institute Inspires Nevada County Students to Pursue Futures in Healthcare

Nevada County high schoolers gained hands-on hospital, nursing lab, and EMS experience during a 4-day healthcare career institute hosted by NCSOS and local partners.

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Oct 22 • 9:18 AM EDT • Health • yubanet.com
Hidalgo Looks to Science and Innovation to Enter Aerospace Industry

Hidalgo is exploring opportunities to enter the aerospace industry by strengthening ties between universities, government institutions

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Oct 21 • 5:08 PM EDT • Science • mexico-now.com
UFL owner explores St. Louis stadium alternatives due to Dome schedule conflicts

League owner says UFL is not leaving the "BattleDome" but is exploring other options for better scheduling flexibility

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Oct 21 • 2:55 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Warriors exploring trades for Kristaps Porziņģis, who is contemplating future amid health issues, per report

Porziņģis missed the entire preseason and his future as a Warrior and as a pro basketball player are now in doubt

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Oct 21 • 2:53 PM EDT • Health • cbssports.com
Elon Musk says SpaceX and Tesla exploring largest merger in history

Tech mogul says tie-up has a 'lot of merit', given firms' complementary work on AI.

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Oct 20 • 11:51 PM EDT • Business • aljazeera.com
Exploring tactile senses with the Orlando Science Center

Watch to see if meteorologist Victoria Wisniewski can guess what is in these stereognostic boxes

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Oct 20 • 11:48 PM EDT • Science • wesh.com
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South Brunswick BOE Approves High School Computer Science Research Study Involving ChatGPT

South Brunswick High School students will participate in research exploring how ChatGPT and AI tools can support computer science education.

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Oct 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • tapinto.net
Ben Logan Environmental Science Club celebrates 10 years of discovery

From planting trees and creating wildlife habitats to exploring local ecosystems, Benjamin Logan students are discovering that environmental science isn’t just something they study in a classroom. It’s something they can experience, investigate, and influence right in their own community. The Benjamin Logan Environmental Science Club kicked off its 10th year with a visit to Jolly Acres, where 28 student members pressed fresh apple cider, painted pumpkins, and explored a...

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Oct 19 • 9:51 AM EDT • Science • marysvillejt.com
Gateway Health Alliances to discuss GLP-1 product innovation at SupplySide Global

The US botanical ingredient supplier will be exploring weight management, metabolic health and nutritional support for consumers discontinuing GLP-1 medications at this year's show

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Oct 19 • 5:03 AM EDT • Health • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com
College of DuPage brings OpenAI Academy to Illinois for inaugural AI summit

College of DuPage and OpenAI host an AI summit exploring workforce skills, higher education and the role of human judgment in an AI-driven world.

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Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Scientists' preferences may hold back animal science discoveries, per a study

We may be missing out on some important discoveries because the scientists are studying the animals they find appealing, rather than exploring the full

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Oct 18 • 3:24 PM EDT • Science • inceptivemind.com
Benjamin Logan Environmental Science Club Celebrates 10 Years of Discovery

BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO – From planting trees and creating wildlife habitats to exploring local ecosystems, Benjamin Logan students are discovering that ...

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Oct 18 • 9:26 AM EDT • Science • wktn.com
Meet the RI YouTuber exploring the creepiest abandoned landmarks

From ghost towns to shipwrecks, a Rhode Island filmmaker is preserving the stories behind some of the state's most fascinating forgotten places.

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Oct 17 • 8:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • providencejournal.com
Provo businesses hoping for tourism spike from Notre Dame-BYU football game

Irish fans exploring Provo's Center Street Friday afternoon said they had traveled from places like Connecticut, Ohio and California to catch the big game.

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Oct 16 • 9:24 PM EDT • Business • ksl.com
Augusta Health to Host Community Career Fair in Waynesboro on October 22 Careers & Connections event will offer job opportunities, same-day interviews, and career resources

FISHERSVILLE, VIRGINIA — Augusta Health invites everyone —from experienced professionals and career changers to students and those simply exploring what’s next —to discover career opportunities at Careers & Connections: More Than a Job Fair. The event takes place Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Best Western Plus, 109 Apple […]

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Oct 16 • 2:19 PM EDT • Health • augustahealth.com
BVCC's Business Leadership Summit Series: AI

The Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce (BVCC) is proud to announce a quarterly leadership series exploring the forces reshaping businesses. The inaugural summit will focus on Artificial Intelligence, designed for […]

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Oct 16 • 9:14 AM EDT • Business • wbjournal.com
Bucks Reportedly Exploring Trades Ahead of Regular Season

The Milwaukee Bucks could make roster moves before next week's regular-season curtain-raiser.

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Oct 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Crown Sports Center is the Perfect Place for Proactive Entertainment and Games

We're exploring Crown Sports Center and discover why it's the perfect place for all manner of entertainment, games, and skill development.

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Oct 16 • 8:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • wboc.com
Lakers Exploring Trades For Forward With Roster Decision Looming

The Los Angeles Lakers are actively exploring trades for third-year forward Dalton Knecht. The post Lakers Exploring Trades For Forward With Roster Decision Looming appeared first on LA Sports Report.

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Oct 15 • 5:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How did political campaigns get so expensive?

The 2026 midterm elections are fast approaching, and it’s gearing up to be the most expensive election in American history. So how did we get here, where every election feels more expensive than the last? Today on the show, we’re exploring what’s causing the flood of money into our politics. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.Your Next Listen –Bad economics, smart politics –Over 2,000 episodes in our archive on the NPR AppConnect with The Indicator from Planet Money–The Indicator newsletter — a weekly roundup of news, ideas and staff picks. –Instagram, TikTok and YouTube –Find the Planet Money book –Find the Planet Money game, Sell Me A Sasquatch, and other merch at the NPR Shop!Support public media by subscribing to NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

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Oct 15 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Fairfax County seeks to cut red tape for local businesses facing hurdles

Fairfax County leaders are exploring ways to streamline bureaucratic processes and cut red tape for local businesses.

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Oct 14 • 10:47 PM EDT • Business • fox5dc.com
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Smrithan Ravichandran wins 2026 laser science dissertation award

The University of Maryland graduate was honored for research exploring electron behavior in intense laser fields.

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Oct 14 • 5:29 AM EDT • Science • americanbazaaronline.com
Dodgers Make Decision on Shohei Ohtani Amid Benching Rumors

The Los Angeles Dodgers will not bench superstar Shohei Ohtani after exploring the decision following their NLCS Game 2 loss.

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Oct 13 • 7:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports

Xbox Labs is a new group exploring emerging game technology

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Oct 13 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
FSU physicists receive funding through Department of Energy's $7.3M Quantum Technology Outposts research initiative

Three Florida State University theoretical physicists are part of a major national initiative exploring how quantum computing could help answer

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Oct 13 • 12:11 PM EDT • Science • news.fsu.edu
A Taiwan School of Music? Rethinking Identity, Politics, and Aesthetics

Written by Min-Erh Wang. This article examines the conceptualisation of a “Taiwan School of Music” within contemporary musicology. Exploring the intersection of music, postcolonial agen…

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Oct 13 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • taiwaninsight.org
eClinical Solutions hosts ENGAGE 2026 with 250+ attendees from 75+ life science firms

eClinical Solutions hosts ENGAGE 2026 with 250+ attendees exploring clinical data management solutions for FDA compliance and trial operations.

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Oct 13 • 2:40 AM EDT • Science • clinicaltrialvanguard.com
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Vanilla Could Hold the Key to New Wound Treatments, Scientists Say

Vanilla is best known for its place in kitchens, desserts, and fragrances. But scientists at Australia’s Flinders University are exploring whether vanillin, the compound responsible for vanilla’s fami...

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Oct 12 • 12:20 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Is a Trending Stock: Facts to Know Before Betting on It

IBM (IBM) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.

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Oct 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Business and Disaster Recovery Center open in Roseville

Federal assistance is available in Roseville, at least through Nov. 1. FEMA and the SBA offer support for residents seeking FEMA assistance, businesses exploring disaster recovery loans and other resources.

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Oct 12 • 5:01 AM EDT • Business • zanesvilletimesrecorder.com
SIU’s 2026 Earth Science Week events focus on critical minerals, public invited

CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois University Carbondale researchers are observing Earth Science Week by exploring some of today’s most important environmental and Earth science challenges — from plastic pollution and soil

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Oct 11 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • thesouthern.com
The hidden math of Alzheimer's could point to new treatments

Mathematics may hold unexpected clues to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have developed a model showing how common metals like copper and zinc may influence the buildup of proteins associated with the disease, while also exploring possible ways to stop the process. The findings could help researchers identify promising strategies for preventing harmful plaque formation.

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Oct 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
BLACK BY GOD: From exploring new business models to global expansion, ample growth opportunities exist for Black farmers in West Virginia

By Jeffrey McKinney | Black By God, Black By God Agriculture, Donate here. Whether in times of triumph or hardship, there are mega growth opportunities

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Oct 11 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • therealwv.com
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Exploring Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Services for Adolescents With Depression in Pokhara Metropolitan City, Nepal: Perspectives of Mental Healthcare Providers

Background In Nepal, depression is one of the most common mental health conditions among adolescents, but mental health services for this population remain limited. Previous studies have iden...

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Oct 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • cureus.com
Exploring the science of keeping your mind sharp as you age

Everyone wants to keep a sharp mind as they age, especially as dementia cases continue to rise. Now, a growing body of evidence suggests almost half of the key risks for cognitive decline can be prevented or delayed. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores the emerging science that can help protect against dementia with Dr. Jonathan Rosand of the Global Brain Care Coalition.

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Oct 9 • 7:00 PM EDT • Science • pbs.org
16th annual Wisconsin Science Festival returns Oct. 15-25 with 650 events statewide

MADISON (WKOW) -- The Wisconsin Science Festival returns for its 16th year with more than 650 events across the state from Oct. 15-25, exploring the theme "Us" through science and

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Oct 8 • 5:16 PM EDT • Science • wkow.com
GSW hosts eighth annual Science Day for area high school students - Americus Times-Recorder

More than 130 area high school students visited Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) on Oct. 2, 2026 for GSW’s eighth annual Science Day, exploring a variety of STEM fields through […]

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Oct 8 • 11:41 AM EDT • Science • americustimesrecorder.com
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Small businesses face tough choices as health insurance costs rise

Some businesses are exploring choice arrangements, which allow employers to set a defined benefit amount rather than selecting one carrier and set of plans for all employees.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • wtkr.com
Small businesses face tough choices as health insurance costs rise

Some businesses are exploring choice arrangements, which allow employers to set a defined benefit amount rather than selecting one carrier and set of plans for all employees.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • wtkr.com
Opus College of Business Faculty Member Delivers Keynotes From Twin Cities to Cameroon  - Newsroom

Christopher Wong Michaelson recently delivered three keynote talks exploring meaningful work, responsible business and professional ethics across business, health care and public relations.

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Oct 7 • 6:13 PM EDT • Business • news.stthomas.edu
University of Delaware leads $21M program exploring AI in health care

A five-year program centered at the University of Delaware will explore how AI could help medical experts improve physical rehabilitation.

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Oct 7 • 2:53 PM EDT • Health • nbcphiladelphia.com
For the love of the game: URI students travel to Ireland to cover, experience international sporting community

KINGSTON, R.I. – Oct. 7, 2026 – Nine University of Rhode Island Harrington School of Communication and Media students spent two weeks in Ireland this summer exploring the country’s sports culture while putting their reporting and storytelling skills to work. That experience left a profound impact on the students that went well beyond their reporting […]

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Oct 7 • 1:57 PM EDT • Sports • uri.edu
Exploring Earth’s Resources for a Clean Energy Future

Earth sciences professor Adam Cawood is finding solutions that support the energy transition while making geoscience more accessible.

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Oct 7 • 1:42 PM EDT • Science • news.syr.edu
COMMENTARY: Exploring the pros and cons of Brandon, MacIntyre

Who should Tennessee start at quarterback for the remainder of the 2026 football season?

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Oct 6 • 1:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Old Dominion University Researchers Explore Connection Between Sinus Health and Voice Problems

A stuffy nose, facial pressure and a diminished sense of smell are familiar symptoms for people with chronic sinus problems. Changes to the voice may be less obvious. Researchers in Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University are exploring a connection patients may not always recognize: the relationship between sinus conditions and voice problems.

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Oct 6 • 10:44 AM EDT • Health • odu.edu
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This Muskegon exhibit reveals the artistry and science behind observing nature up close

From detailed natural history illustrations to specimens drawn straight from the collection, the exhibit offers something for budding scientists, artists, and curious minds exploring how we document the world around us.

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Oct 6 • 9:55 AM EDT • Science • mlive.com
PRIO awarded funding for new research on the future of peaceful politics

PRIO Research Professor Håvard Hegre has been awarded a prestigious Hernes-CAS Mobility Grant to develop a new research project exploring whether the l ...

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Oct 6 • 6:52 AM EDT • Politics • prio.org
CMS student among top 30 finalists nationwide in science competition

Isabella Garry is being honored for a project exploring whether natural materials can remove microplastics from simulated stomach fluid.

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Oct 5 • 4:22 PM EDT • Science • eplocalnews.org
'If You Can Keep It': Mental Health And Democracy

A veteran journalist covered the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol. That experience got her exploring the connection between stress, trauma, and our political choices.Our mental health might affect our politics. But our politics also definitely affect our mental health.In this edition of “If You Can Keep It,” we examine that intersection.Find more of our programs online. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.

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Yale School of Medicine On the Science of Childhood Anxiety, Say, Anxiety Disorders Are the Most Common Mental Health Challenges In Youth

Credit: Matt Bradbury October 5, 2026 - By Isabella Backman - Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health challenges in youth. Left untreated, they can disrupt the lives of both children and their families. The good news is that with intervention, most children will overcome these conditions. Across Yale School of Medicine, scientists are working to understand anxiety at every level, from common anxious behaviors to molecular biomarkers in the brain. They are using their findings to develop and disseminate new evidence-based treatments for childhood anxiety. Today, the go-to treatment for childhood anxiety disorders is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This is a form of psychotherapy that teaches children skills for confronting anxious thoughts and helps them practice managing situations that cause anxiety. While it is the gold-standard treatment backed by considerable scientific evidence, up to 50% of children will not see sufficient benefit from CBT alone. Wendy Silverman, PhD, Alfred A. Messer Professor in the Child Study Center, co-directs the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program alongside Eli Lebowitz, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center. One of their main interests is learning how to improve outcomes beyond CBT. “We’re developing cutting-edge, research-based knowledge that can reduce the suffering that anxiety causes children and their families,” says Silverman. Changing parent behavior YSM experts are investigating how to improve CBT outcomes for children by involving the parents. Silverman’s research has uncovered two main components of parent intervention that improve childhood anxiety: not enabling children to completely avoid the things that make them anxious and taking steps to enhance their autonomy. Parents may unintentionally reinforce their child’s anxiety by allowing them to avoid what makes them anxious. They also may unintentionally limit the children’s sense of autonomy by being overly intrusive. “One of the things that we take pride in is that we’ve focused on trying to understand what parents need to do, and to test our ideas and see if changing the parents’ behaviors is enhancing the effects of CBT,” Silverman says. “Our findings thus far suggest that they do." As much as CBT can be helpful, it can also be challenging to get one’s child to do the necessary steps for CBT to work. This is one important reason why Lebowitz created a novel intervention program for parents named Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE). Existing intervention programs often teach parents to act as therapists for their child, such as training them on how to practice breathing exercises. “It makes sense, but this doesn’t work very well in practice,” says Lebowitz. “And part of the reason, I think, is that it’s not easy to get your kid to do things, especially if they’re not excited about doing it.” SPACE is unique because it focuses entirely on parent involvement and changing parental behavior—children are not involved in the sessions. For example, parents learn how to use supportive messages that convey confidence that their child can tolerate and manage distress. “It might sound like a parent saying to a child, ‘I get that this is really hard for you, but I know that you can handle it,’” Lebowitz says. The program also works with parents to identify the ways in which they are accommodating anxious behaviors. “We’ll pick one thing that parents are doing that is an accommodation and help them make a detailed plan for how they’re going to change that,” Lebowitz explains. Treating Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Much of the existing research on SPACE has focused on parents of children under age 14. Ongoing studies are now exploring its use with parents of older teens. “Both anxiety and accommodation can interfere with normative developmental shifts during the teen years, including increased autonomy and individuation from parents,” says Rebecca Etkin, PhD, associate research scientist in the Child Study Center. “In this sense, SPACE may be particularly well-suited for anxious teens and their parents. We want to see whether it is effective during this distinct developmental window.” Unfortunately, many families in need of CBT face barriers, including limited availability of services and geographic constraints. One way to improve access is digital interventions. Silverman and her team are developing an evidence-based digitized intervention program for parents that they can access directly from their computer or smart phone. “The work we’re doing will be one of the very few parent interventions that is digitized and importantly tested for effectiveness,” she says. Creating interventions for anxiety-related challenges Silverman and Lebowitz recently received a generous gift to develop and test other interventions that help parents reduce other child anxiety-related behavioral and emotional difficulties, such as restrictive eating and unexplained somatic symptoms. One of these projects in particular focuses on understanding the risks of social media and its potential benefits, including offering a sense of connection. “A lot of research has focused on the idea that social media is harmful and the less of it the better,” says Lebowitz. “But we actually see is that this is not quite right—there are negatives, but there are also positives. So, we’re trying to get a little bit more nuanced of a picture.” The team is working with teens with social anxiety and their parents over an extended period to better understand their social media habits and how their anxiety levels affect engagement with different platforms. The teens will answer questions sent to an app on their phones about mood and social media usage in an effort to capture emotional responses as they unfold. “We hope to develop interventions that can help make the best of social media while protecting against the more problematic effects,” Lebowitz says. The brain’s role in anxiety Researchers are also testing therapies to address anxiety at the neurological and molecular levels. In collaboration with Dylan Gee, PhD, professor of psychology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, Lebowitz and Silverman are using brain imaging to identify changes in a child’s brain before and after parents enroll in SPACE. In one study, children viewed anxiety-inducing images while undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); the researchers conducted scans with and without the children’s parents nearby. Before SPACE, children’s brains were better able to activate the regulatory circuitry needed to turn off an anxious response when their parents were nearby. But after SPACE, children could activate this circuitry even without the parent around. “As parents work on gradually reducing some of their accommodations, you can see a child get better at regulating their own fear system in the brain,” Lebowitz says. “It’s remarkable.” Research into the molecular underpinnings of anxiety can also inform new childhood anxiety treatments. In a recent study, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Flora Vaccarino, MD, Harris Professor in the Child Study Center, discovered that a protein known as fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) could be protective from the toxic effects of stress. FGF2 levels in children and their parents were linked to the children’s risk of developing anxiety and depression, the study showed. The findings could help explain why some children who are exposed to early life trauma such as poverty or abuse are more prone to developing mental health disorders. And FGF2 could be a target for treatment. “This is very novel because it starts to give a clue to what is the molecular chain that connects those lived experiences to the actual psychological outcomes,” Lebowitz says. New ways to study and treat childhood anxiety Michael Crowley, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center, collaborates with Silverman and Lebowitz to study the role that attention plays in development and maintenance of childhood anxiety. There is a large body of research that shows that anxious children, like anxious adults, are prone to focus on threatening stimuli such as angry faces compared with neutral faces. This has led to innovative interventions that involve attention retraining. The idea is that if experts train children to look away from threatening stimuli, it may reduce their anxiety—especially children with social anxiety who are most prone to attend to threats. The researchers have just completed a clinical trial for attention retraining with 10- to 14-year-olds with social anxiety disorders and are currently analyzing the findings. Besides this innovative attention retraining research, as Crowly notes, “I like to design tasks that are engaging to kids,” Crowley says. “My goal is to assess something without the kids knowing what we are assessing.” With this goal in mind, Crowley has created a virtual game, named Boom, to study threat processing in children with anxiety disorders. The game is similar to that of hot potato—the child and three digital players take turns virtually passing a ball to each other’s gloves. At some point, the ball turns into a bomb, and as the bomb lands in each player’s glove, the outline of the glove turns yellow. The goal is to avoid having the bomb go off in your glove. What isn’t obvious is that the game is designed to measure different types of threatening stimuli, both ambiguous and direct. In the game, the direct threat occurs as the bomb is traveling towards your glove. The ambiguous threat is the yellow outlined glove as it is unknown where the bomb will travel next. While children play the game, Crowley’s team measures their brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG). The researchers have discovered that in kids with anxiety, the brain reacts more strongly to ambiguous threats than it does in their peers, but less strongly to direct threats. They believe that the initial abnormally large brain response to not knowing where the bomb is going impairs the brain's ability to properly respond when the threat is actually traveling the child’s way. “The brains of children with anxiety are unable to differentiate between threats you need to do something about and those that are not your problem.” Michael Crowley, PhD, develops innovative games for studying anxiety in children and adolescents.Credit: Matt Bradbury Based on these insights, Crowley hopes to study whether interventions like attention training could restore appropriate threat processing. Crowley’s team is also working on a test called the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task, which evaluates risk-taking and avoidance behaviors. It features a digital balloon that is full of air and about to burst. Kids have six seconds to let air out of the balloon. The more air they let out, the less risk they face that the balloon will pop. But at the same time, the balloon becomes less valuable as it deflates. “The more air you keep in the balloon, the more points you get,” Crowley explains. So far, the researchers have found that when the balloons pop unexpectedly, teens with social anxiety show distinct brain responses. Studying these responses can help psychologists understand the underlying pathways driving the various manifestations of anxiety. The genetics of anxiety When Thomas Fernandez, MD, associate professor in the Child Study Center and of psychiatry, was still in training, there was a lot of excitement about understanding the genetics associated with autism spectrum disorder. Since then, scientists have identified around 250 genes associated with autism. The genetic contribution to anxiety disorders, on the other hand, has historically received less attention. Anxiety is less heritable than autism, but the genetic contribution for anxiety disorders that emerge in childhood may be higher than for anxiety disorders overall. While scientists estimate the heritability of anxiety disorders in general to be around 30% to 50%, some studies suggest higher heritability for certain childhood-onset anxiety presentations. “I saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism,” Fernandez says. “So, we’re using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.” “I saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism. So, we’re using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.” Thomas Fernandez, MD Associate Professor In the Child Study Center and in Psychiatry Now, Fernandez and Emily Olfson, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Child Study Center, are studying children and their parents to identify genetic changes that are present in the child but not the parents, known as “de novo mutations.” “All of us have some de novo mutations—maybe about 50 to 100 sprinkled throughout the genome,” Olfson says. “But when they occur within the coding regions of genes, they can be really disruptive.” Previous research shows that people with autism have higher rates of damaging de novo mutations than the general population. In 2022, Olfson, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Fernandez published a study on 68 children and their families that found that children with anxiety had similarly high levels of these mutations. Studying de novo mutations can help point the researchers to where they should be looking for genes associated with anxiety. “The end game is using the genes to steer us toward the right part of biology that we can then target to come up with better treatments,” Fernandez says. Building on those findings, the team is now studying more families to better understand how these de novo mutations, along with other genetic and environmental factors, shape pediatric anxiety disorders. They recently received a National Institutes of Health grant to enroll 750 new families over the next five years. Olfson is the principal investigator, with co-investigators Lebowitz, Fernandez, Silverman, and Shuangge Steven Ma, PhD, department chair and professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. Neurodevelopment, Risk Genes, and Mental Health Conditions - The Olfson Lab Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, is interested in how different anxiety disorders differ genomically. “We are studying social phobia, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, working to understand why people differ in their risk to these specific anxiety disorders and evaluating various risk factors,” he says. Gelernter was recently involved in one of the largest studies to date of the genomics underlying anxiety disorder. The study included around 122,000 people with anxiety disorders and around 730,000 without. It found that some genetic differences associated with anxiety were linked to signaling that helps reduce overactivity in the nervous system. Many anxiety medications available today work by targeting this process. “It’s nice when the biology that you get out of a large genome-wide study ratifies things that we already know because that can help increase confidence in further findings from the study,” Gelernter says. Uncovering the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and chair of the Department of Psychiatry, is interested in the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which anxiety is a major symptom. In the late 1980s, Krystal’s team discovered that the drug yohimbine activated symptoms in patients with PTSD. “This was the first time we could link a specific biological mechanism to the symptoms of PTSD,” Krystal says. At the time, he adds, this finding was highly controversial. “A lot of people felt that PTSD was a purely psychological syndrome that didn’t have an underlying biology.” Since then, Krystal has dived deep into understanding the neurobiology of PTSD to learn how to better treat it. His team is evaluating the use of ketamine and psychedelics. These would be among the first treatments to be developed specifically for PTSD. They may also be applicable for other disorders including anxiety disorders, Krystal adds. An important gap in PTSD treatment is the absence of biological tests that inform how to best help patients manage their PTSD symptoms. A doctor doesn’t diagnose cancer based on how they feel. Rather, they use tests of the biology of the cancer to determine the best course of treatment. “And we can’t do that in any psychiatric disorder other than Alzheimer’s disease,” Krystal says. “But now we are building a foundation for this approach to the treatment of anxiety disorders for the first time.” Source: Yale School of Medicine

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Exploring Corey Seager's Rollercoaster Season

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Could psilocybin treat brain injuries? Neuroscientist explains how psychedelics could fill a gap in head trauma care

Live Science spoke with neuroscientist Argel Aguilar-Valles about recent research exploring psychedelics as a treatment for mild head trauma.

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VSU Hosts Free Science Saturday Oct. 17

VALDOSTA – VSU will host free Science Saturday activities exploring chemistry and geosciences from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 17.

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Where every US governor stands on AI and data centers

Some governors see their states as the next powerhouse for the growing AI industry. Others are exploring a "kill switch" for rogue AI.

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How Washington Funded the Politicization of Science

Over the last half-decade, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on projects designed to influence academic policies, both in the sciences and other disciplines. The aim was to foster a progressive conception of social justice in these fields. In pursuit of this end, the foundation earmarked nearly a million dollars for a project titled “Creating Inclusive Scientific Societies through Policies and Practices,” over a million for a project on “Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity,” and over $2 million to foster “racial equity focused departmental change.” Through a public records request, I’ve obtained the proposals and progress reports for dozens of NSF grants designed to promote social justice. Although funding for these grants was eventually halted by the Trump administration, the projects illustrate an important facet of recent higher-education policy. Many of the university policies that promised “social transformation” didn’t arise in a vacuum. They were actively encouraged by outside funders—often by the federal government itself. Subscribe Accreditation—the peer-review process which enables universities to receive federal grants and student loans—has recently become a policy battleground, with accreditors wielding significant power over both universities and academic disciplines. In 2020, when Oregon Health and Science University’s medical school issued an extensive diversity action plan—which promised “consequences” for employees who failed to support “DEI, anti-racism and social justice”—it specifically pointed to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the medical-school accrediting body, to justify the overhaul. The NSF actively promoted DEI-focused accreditation policies. The proposal for a $1.2 million program on promoting “community engagement” in STEM, which I obtained through a records request, notes that the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology was exploring changes to its criteria “that would incorporate JEDI [justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion].” The proposal promised to “support broader JEDI efforts in the general criteria for engineering.” Another grant funded a conference designed to “identify and share best practices and strategies to integrate IDEA principles in accreditation criteria”—referring to an acronym that stands for “inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.” Scholarly societies have become another flashpoint in debates over higher education. Critics argue that many of these societies, which have the power to shape entire disciplines, have become increasingly politicized. Again, through its giving, the NSF played a role in promoting this politicization. In one million-dollar grant that received funding in 2024, a group of psychologists proposed a series of social-justice reforms to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The proposal, which I obtained via a records request, asserts that “[r]edistributing resources (such as moving different people into leadership roles) is not enough” and that the society’s “governance structures do not yet reflect its stated values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Its solution: review and rework the society’s criteria for leadership development, academic awards, conferences, and publications. Adjusting review criteria informed by “intersectionality” designed to fight “epistemic exclusion” is an easy way to introduce de facto ideological litmus tests into the peer-review process. For many of the grants I obtained, such litmus tests seem to be the point. “Academic departments are racialized social systems that produce and sustain the byproducts of systemic racism,” a proposal for a $2.7 million project funded in 2024 asserts, promising to develop “departmentally-focused change efforts that cultivate values, assumptions, and behaviors that advance racial equity.” The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign’s million-dollar “I-ADVANCE” project, which effectively created a small DEI bureaucracy on campus, promised to Embed 28 ADVANCE faculty fellows in STEM departments” to amplify its equity goals. Another $1.2 million project promised to create “faculty online learning communities,” made up of scientists at universities around the country, that would eventually build department-level diversity action plans. “Ultimately,” the proposal asserts, perhaps more perceptively than its authors realized, “both organizational change and intersectionality frameworks deal with power.” Indeed, such grants confer a great deal of power to administrators and scholar-activists, who can even use the mere availability of funding as a tool to advance their causes. That history is worth remembering amid today’s debate over federal involvement in higher education: Washington has been shaping university priorities for years, including by financing efforts to instill progressive ideas about race, gender, and equity into academic institutions—and many of the policies those grants encouraged remain embedded within universities long after the federal money has stopped flowing. John D. 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L.A.-raised comic Jack Assadourian Jr. turns his Mexican Armenian roots into fearless new comedy special

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Spend a Halloween-inspired evening at The Huntington exploring ‘Strange Science'

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West Branch FFA members attend Farm Science Review

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Exploring the solar system through Cornell's image library

This year marks the forty-sixth anniversary of the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility's technical research and outreach activities.

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Chicago’s iO Theater is hosting an expert-led science bar talk exploring the complex forensic psychology and clinical profiles of real-life serial killers and alternative mental health therapies

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Hands-On Science Center announces Fall Break Camp

Looking for something exciting and educational to keep kids engaged during fall break? The Hands-On Science Center is inviting children ages 6–13 to spend a week exploring, experimenting, and discovering at its upcoming Fall Break Camp, taking place Oct. 5–9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (begin drop-off as early as 8:30 a.m. and pick […]

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Dove Lab links dialogue about racism and Black maternal health

Researchers at the Dove Lab published two studies exploring how communication between providers and Black women can minimize pregnancy risks.

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From wild rice to tarwi, researchers are exploring the health potential of Indigenous foods

A conference paper reviewed North American and Andean Indigenous foods, including Three Sisters crops, wild rice, native berries, tarwi, quinoa, and amaranth, and described their nutrients and bioactive compounds. Evidence for health effects remains limited for many of these foods, and the authors call for research developed with Indigenous communities that also supports traditional knowledge and food sovereignty.

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Hamilton College administrator co-authors book on women in comics

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Scientists Test an Unexpected Sleep Aid Made From Tree Roots

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Why a spacecraft exploring moons where life may thrive is zipping by Earth

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Borussia Dortmund join Roma in race for Kvernadze

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From Miami to the UAE: Exploring the Next Business Connection

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FSU HEALTH COMMUNICATION EXPERT FINDS GLP-1 USERS FACE STIGMA WITHIN THEIR SOCIAL CIRCLES

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Semaglutide is improving the heart health of millions—but how? Experts are stumped

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Australia Investigates OpenAI Hack on Public Health Care Site

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Australia Says OpenAI ‘Infiltrated’ Public Health Care Portal

Australia is exploring potential legal action after an artificial intelligence agent accessed nonpublic information on the country’s universal health care system.

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This trippy new 'Star Trek' comic series may be perfect for the franchise's next feature film

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A gut feeling: Connections between gastrointestinal disease and emotional health in dogs

Gastrointestinal disease and emotional health are known to be linked in humans, but what about in dogs? Researchers have started exploring this connection, and they have reason to believe that even in cases of well-managed chronic enteropathy, affected dogs may benefit for their behavioral health.

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How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? 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Aging Untold: Why gut health matters more as you age

On this episode of Aging Untold, we sort fact from fad when it comes to gut health, exploring why digestive wellness matters more as you age. Plus, we look at why some happily married couples stay together but choose to live in separate homes and how they make it work.

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Aging Untold: Why gut health matters more as you age

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Aging Untold: Why gut health matters more as you age

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A New Kind of Model for AI Decision-Making?

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How to prepare for your first solo trip, from a frequent solo traveler

Traveling solo can help you recharge. As an experienced solo traveler, I think first-timers should practice by exploring their hometowns.

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Hunt for the Red Planet: URI Honors Colloquium lecture will discuss why humans must go to Mars

KINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 21, 2026 – Traveling to Mars has been a major human aspiration for the last half century. In the last three decades, aerospace scientists and engineers have taken significant steps in exploring the fourth planet from the sun with several rover landings. So, why is it a must for humans to […]

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Chinese Scientists Find Unexpected Solution To The Problem With Underwater Drones

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Scientists Discover New Compound That Burns Fat Without Killing Your Appetite

Unlike GLP-1 drugs, which suppress appetite and reduce energy intake, a newly identified molecular compound helps cells burn more energy without changing food intake or exercise and has shown promise in mouse models. The most successful new obesity drugs largely work by helping people eat less. Researchers at UC Berkeley are exploring a different strategy:

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SEED STEM Festival brings science to life for local children

From building robots to exploring neuroscience, local children got hands-on experience with science, technology, engineering and math Saturday at Aiken’s 41st annual SEED STEM Festival.

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SEED STEM Festival brings science to life for local children

From building robots to exploring neuroscience, local children got hands-on experience with science, technology, engineering and math Saturday at Aiken’s 41st annual SEED STEM Festival.

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Laying Science: Exploring density with liquids

In Mr. Bullock’s eighth-grade science class, students recently put their analytical skills to work through a hands- on density laboratory experiment. Using a variety of common liquids, including oil, rubbing

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15 things to do around the Seattle area this weekend

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Science will get hands-on at USCA’s 41st SEED STEM Festival this weekend

AIKEN — Science is more than textbooks — it’s about exploring, discovering and experiencing the world around us. Bring the entire family for a day of hands-on fun at the Ruth Patrick Science Education...

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macOS 27: Siri AI top features - Apple's assistant finally comes to life [Video]

A hands-on look at the new Siri AI in macOS 27, comparing it to Siri on macOS 26, and exploring all of its new capability.

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Take a look at Tennessee’s new Entertainment District as Kentucky plans one of its own

Kentucky is exploring adding an entertainment district around Kroger Field; Tennessee has one in the works that could provide inspiration.

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Sep 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • on3.com
Exploring the ocean depths: FIU scientists descend to world’s deepest hydrothermal vents

An FIU research team recently returned from a month-long expedition in the Caribbean where they explored how shrimp find their way to this extreme environment without sight.

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Sep 17 • 7:19 AM EDT • Science • news.fiu.edu