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/ 1 month agoProtests, sectarian violence and a growing spat with India: Bangladesh’s new leaders are beset with challenges to its democracy
Restoring democracy will be a tall order for the interim government as it grapples with security, economic and geopolitical crises.
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/ 1 month agoAdults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening
Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and dementia.
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/ 1 month agoWhat is a self-coup? South Korea president’s attempt ended in failure − a notable exception in a growing global trend
There have been 46 attempted self-coups since the end of World War II – 80% have succeeded. So what went wrong...
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/ 1 month agoWhite and Black activists worked strategically in parallel in Detroit 50 years ago, fighting for civil rights
As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an...
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/ 1 month agoLong-standing American principle of birthright citizenship under attack from Trump allies
Since the earliest days of the nation, any person born on US soil is a US citizen.
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/ 1 month agoSome black holes at the centers of galaxies have a buddy − but detecting these binary pairs isn’t easy
Most objects in the universe have been around for way longer than modern astronomy – digging into historical records can help...
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/ 1 month agoBluesky isn’t the ‘new Twitter,’ but its resemblance to the old one is drawing millions of new users
Bluesky, the microblogging alternative to X, is having a moment. A social media researcher explains why people are flocking to it...
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/ 1 month ago‘Lebanon wanted us gone … it was a risk to leave’ − Syrian refugees who fled Israeli bombs face hostility and uncertainty on return
For many of Lebanon’s 1.5 million Syrian refugees, temporary crossing back into their war-torn homeland was a risk they felt they...
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/ 1 month agoCan you choose to believe something, just like that?
Many philosophers cast doubt on ‘doxastic voluntarism’: the idea that we can control what we believe, just like that. So can...
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/ 1 month agoAvian flu virus has been found in raw milk − a reminder of how pasteurization protects health
Raw milk can carry many dangerous germs − now including the H5N1 virus that causes avian flu.
