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/ 12 months agoHanukkah celebrations have changed dramatically − but the same is true of Christmas
Assimilation no doubt played a role in making Hanukkah the commercialized holiday it is today. But other factors shaped the modern...
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/ 12 months agoReal or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the most sustainable Christmas tree, no matter what it’s made of
How many years you reuse a fake holiday tree matters. So does what happens to a live tree when you’ve packed...
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/ 12 months agoHow a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Northeast’s Great Marsh ecosystem
South of Cape Cod, fiddler crabs and marsh grass have long had a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s a different story in...
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/ 12 months ago‘Inert’ ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than scientists thought
Inert ingredients are added for purposes other than killing pests and are not required under federal law to be tested for...
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/ 12 months agoHate crimes are on the rise − but the narrow legal definition makes it hard to charge and convict
There has been a sharp uptick in crimes specifically targeting Muslim and Jewish people since the war between Israel and Hamas...
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/ 12 months agoWhy Franklin, Washington and Lincoln considered American democracy an ‘experiment’ — and were unsure if it would survive
Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove,...
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/ 12 months agoScience is a human right − and its future is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Decades ago, the international community codified science as a cultural right and protected expression of human creativity. Reaffirming science’s value can...
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/ 12 months agoScientists have been researching superconductors for over a century, but they have yet to find one that works at room temperature − 3 essential reads
Claims about the discovery of a coveted room-temperature superconductor peppered the news in 2023. We pulled three stories from our archives...
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/ 12 months agoHow sacred images in many Asian cultures incorporate divine presence and make them come ‘alive’
Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and respond...
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/ 12 months agoCertain states, including Arizona, have begun scrapping court costs and fees for people unable to pay – two experts on legal punishments explain why
The imposition of fines and fees on people unable to pay has had a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino communities.
