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It doesn’t make for inspiring politics, but political scientists have determined that for candidates, it’s more valuable to have an unpopular...
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Yemen’s brutal civil war has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. But a recent Beijing-brokered rapprochement between...
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/ 2 years agoAI exemplifies the ‘free rider’ problem – here’s why that points to regulation
As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.
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/ 2 years agoReconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering a potential source for new antibiotics
Ancient microbes likely produced natural products their descendants today do not. Tapping into this lost chemical diversity could offer a potential...
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Who are the Proud Boys, what do they want and is there a path back into society for these extremists?
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Cloud seeding – spraying materials into clouds to increase precipitation – has been around for nearly 80 years. But only recently...
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Prom can be very expensive, but prices for clothes, photographers and other traditional gear haven’t climbed as much as everything else.
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/ 2 years agoMontana House Rep. Zooey Zephyr’s censure shows that American standards of political decorum are failing
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, first established a set of political decorum rules in legislatures to help...
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The pageantry of the coronation will be broadcast around the world. Here’s what to expect over the three days of celebrations.
