The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) / VISUALIZATION: Joseph ...

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There are a range of competing views on whether smartphones and social media are harmful to adolescents, and an attempt to ...