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/ 1 year agoIsrael’s democracy protests: What happens next?
What will happen in Israel after more than half a year of pro-democracy demonstrations against the conservative government’s judicial overhaul?
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/ 1 year agoPresidential pauses? What those ‘ums’ and ‘uhs’ really tell us about candidates for the White House
Long treated as a sign of anxiety or a delaying tactic, ‘filled pauses’ are a linguistic trick to signal that what...
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/ 1 year agoWhat the pope’s visit to Mongolia says about his priorities and how he is changing the Catholic Church
A scholar of Roman Catholicism explains why Pope Francis’ visit to Mongolia, home to fewer than 1,500 Catholics, is significant.
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/ 1 year agoThe idea that imprisonment ‘corrects’ prisoners stretches back to some of the earliest texts in history
Mesopotamia’s prisons were built for detaining people, not punishing them. But they shaped powerful ideas about justice and reform that aren’t...
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/ 1 year agoSocial media algorithms warp how people learn from each other, research shows
Social media companies’ drive to keep you on their platforms clashes with how people evolved to learn from each other. One...
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/ 1 year agoCaroline Herschel was the first female astronomer, but she still lacks name recognition two centuries later
Astronomer Caroline Herschel’s work discovering and cataloging astronomical objects in the 18th century is still used in the field today, but...
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/ 1 year agoAI and new standards promise to make scientific data more useful by making it reusable and accessible
The phrase ‘research data management’ might make your eyes glaze over, but it’s actually this behind-the-scenes work that allows for large-scale...
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/ 1 year agoCan you cry underwater?
An ophthalmologist explains how important tears are to keeping your eyes feeling good and working well – whether you’re on dry...
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/ 1 year agoHurricane Hilary triggers California’s first tropical storm watch ever, with heavy rain and flash flooding forecast
Forecasters are warning of a destructive storm for Mexico and the US Southwest – with El Niño, a heat dome and...
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/ 1 year agoAs BRICS cooperation accelerates, is it time for the US to develop a BRICS policy?
BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – compose 41% of the world population and almost a third...
