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/ 5 months agoAmerica’s dairy farms are disappearing, down 95% since the 1970s − milk price rules are one reason why
Dairy farms are struggling to survive as production costs exceed sales. The result, consolidation, with more cows on bigger farms, has...
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/ 5 months agoPennsylvania’s mail-in ballot system has a problem − but it’s not what Trump is making unfounded claims about
Pennsylvania’s delays in counting mail-in votes have not been fixed − creating an opportunity for Trump and his allies to cast...
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/ 5 months agoWomen are still underrepresented in local government, despite a woman running for president
Until now, researchers and the public knew very little about how well women were represented outside the federal government.
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/ 5 months agoEmpowering engineering students through storytelling
Researchers asked engineering students to tell stories about challenges they had faced. Telling the stories, students said, made them more likely...
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/ 5 months agoClass and race can create divides between donors and a cause they support − putting stress on those nonprofits
To satisfy donors, a nonprofit felt forced to use language from the corporate world. In doing so, it was hard to...
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/ 5 months agoIntoxication nation: a double shot of US history
Alcohol is a window into American history, from 17th-century rum production to young people’s declining interest in drinking today.
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/ 5 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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/ 5 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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/ 5 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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/ 5 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...
