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/ 2 months agoTrump won’t rule out force to take Greenland – a country with a complex colonial history
Donald Trump first flagged buying Greenland, whose colonial history spans centuries, during his first term. Yesterday, he said he wouldn’t rule...
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/ 2 months agoTrump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is actually 2...
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/ 2 months agoWant to quit vaping this year? Here’s what the evidence shows so far about effective strategies
Text message-based programming and the drug varenicline were the only 2 strategies that were shown to be effective for quitting vaping.
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/ 2 months agoLogging off life but living on: How AI is redefining death, memory and immortality
Ethical and legal issues around death in the digital age are thorny enough dealing with social media accounts. AI puts the...
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/ 2 months ago3 ways Trump’s EPA could use the language of science to weaken pollution controls
For example, the first Trump administration tried to use the principles of transparency to prevent federal agencies from considering major health...
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/ 2 months agoInterior secretary manages vast lands that all Americans share − and can sway the balance between conservation and development
The Interior Department manages about one-fifth of all US land. Its secretary mediates among many competing uses for it, from recreation...
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/ 2 months agoSelfish or selfless? Anti-natalists say they’re going child-free to protect the kids they won’t have
Life is a gamble, anti-natalists say, and it’s unethical to force someone else to take the risk.
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/ 2 months agoNuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source – but big engineering challenges stand in the way
Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they’ll still need to...
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/ 2 months agoWho owns that restaurant? The answer can affect food safety in unexpected ways, researchers find
Ownership structure matters.
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/ 2 months agoGender balance in computer science and engineering is improving at elite universities but getting worse elsewhere
Women in these fields are almost at parity with men at the most selective schools, but the gender gap doubled at...
