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Creativity involves generating something new – a product or solution that didn’t previously exist. Maestria_diz/iStock via Getty Images

AI scores in the top percentile of creative thinking

Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
The most in-the-know insiders earned three times as much as the typical investor in any given month. Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment via Getty Images

Insider trading − the legal kind − is a lot more profitable if you work for a multinational company

Executives and other high-level inside traders at US companies with global sales earned about three times as much in a month as the average investor, a new study found.
Maternal death rates are higher in the U.S. than in other high-income countries. Tetra Images/Getty Images

Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds

Black women died during or soon after pregnancy at higher rates than any other racial group in every year from 1999 to 2019. American Indian and Alaska Native women had the greatest increase in risk during this period.
A new study found that those with student loans are more likely to delay medical, dental and mental health care. PeopleImages/iStock via Getty Images

College students with loans more likely to report bad health and skip medicine and care, study finds

College students who postpone medical care to save money end up paying for it down the line in the form of worse health, a researcher contends.
Worldwide, close to twice as many women as men report low back pain. RealPeopleGroup/E+ via Getty Images

Millions across the world live with low back pain, but addressing major risk factors like smoking, obesity and workplace ergonomics could curb the trend, research shows

The prevalence of low back pain continues to surge worldwide, but many treatments currently available offer little to no relief.
Many older people with health insurance coverage through Medicare still can’t afford the care they need. RichLegg/E+ via Getty Images

Where the government draws the line for Medicaid coverage leaves out many older Americans who may need help paying for medical and long-term care bills – new research

Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.
This image of actin filaments in a cell was taken using a type of superresolution microscopy. Xiaowei Zhuang, HHMI, Harvard University, and Nature Publishing Group/NIH via Flickr

Zooming across time and space simultaneously with superresolution to understand how cells divide

Superresolution microscopy allowed researchers to view cells at the molecular level. Improvements on the technique can help study the building blocks of complex cell processes over time.

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