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/ 2 months agoWhat are halal mortgages?
The access to halal mortgages, which provide interest-free housing loans, has been growing in the US.
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/ 2 months agoWill your phone one day let you smell as well as see and hear what’s on the other end of a call?
Phones that transmit odors sound like science fiction, but researchers are working on making them real.
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/ 2 months agoPlants get a GMO glow-up: Genetically modified varieties are coming out of the lab and into homes and gardens
Lose the prickles. Add bioluminescence. Up the nutrients without the bitter flavor. CRISPR gene editing is opening a new world of...
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/ 2 months agoHow researchers measure wildfire smoke exposure doesn’t capture long-term health effects − and hides racial disparities
Which is riskier for your health: a few days of very bad PM₂.₅ exposure or many more days of slightly bad...
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/ 2 months agoSunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they grow
Plants don’t just grow straight up. They can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. And studying these...
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/ 2 months agoCreative life after death − or yes, you can control spinoffs from beyond the grave
Even after departing this world, artists have plenty of legal tools to protect their creative vision.
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/ 2 months agoStudents ride the rails in this course to learn about sustainability and tourism
With 100 hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living...
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/ 2 months agoEndometriosis pain leads to missed school and work in two-thirds of women with the condition, new study finds
Black and Hispanic women are less likely to receive an endometriosis diagnosis, reflecting a possible systemic bias or disparity in health...
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/ 2 months agoAs attitudes toward wild predators shift, Colorado voters weigh a ban on hunting mountain lions
Colorado has spectacular scenery, but it comes with wild animals, and they sometimes wander into town. A ballot measure that would...
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/ 2 months agoWild ginseng is declining, but small-scale ‘diggers’ aren’t the main threat to this native plant − and they can help save it
There’s a widespread argument that ‘poachers’ are responsible for the scarcity of wild ginseng. But a scholar who has interviewed diggers...
