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/ 18 hours agoAfter Hurricane Helene, survivors have been in a race against time to protect family heirlooms, photographs and keepsakes
Disaster recovery isn’t just about repairing bridges, roads and homes. Conservationists from the Smithsonian were on the ground in North Carolina...
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/ 18 hours agoClimate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already be hurting animals that are grazers
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the air are making plants grow larger and faster, but diluting their nutritional content. This could...
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/ 18 hours agoIn Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like real Polynesian explorers − an astronomer explains how these methods work
Disney’s ‘Moana’ movies have brought a new level of excitement for astronomy and wayfinding, says an astronomer who regularly hosts planetarium...
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/ 18 hours ago2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans
Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.
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/ 18 hours agoLanguage AIs in 2024: Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents
The rubber met the road for language AIs in 2024. The hard realities led to new, smaller models and safety measures...
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/ 18 hours agoThe ‘choking game’ and other challenges amplified by social media can come with deadly consequences
Although these activities have been around for decades, there are signs that some are making a comeback.
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/ 18 hours agoClimate of fear is driving local officials to quit – new study from California finds threats, abuse rampant
Researchers surveyed hundreds of elected officials in three Southern California counties. They found 2 in 3 respondents had been threatened or...
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/ 18 hours agoDetroit’s reparations task force now has until 2025 to make its report, but going slow with this challenging work may not be a bad thing
19 US cities have introduced local reparations initiatives to address historic harms against Black residents. But designing a program that is...
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/ 2 days ago3D-printed guns, like the one allegedly used to kill a health care CEO, are a growing threat in the US and around the world
The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police will...
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/ 2 days agoWhat does the US attorney general actually do? A law professor explains
The combined political and legal roles and responsibilities of the US attorney general can create conflicts. Some attorneys general yielded to...
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/ 2 days agoColorado now has one of the nation’s most liberal abortion access laws, but ballot measures to restrict abortion have a long history in the state
Colorado voters have been asked 10 times since 1970 to vote on abortion ballot measures.
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/ 2 days agoHow should we look to history to make sense of Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson?
Comparisons between our current era and the societal rot of the Gilded Age abound. But it might be more useful to...
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/ 2 days agoA nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics
Political polarization and people not being exposed to other perspectives online are two major factors that contribute to Americans feeling exhausted...
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/ 2 days agoThe Wanamaker organ has been part of a treasured holiday tradition in Philly for over 100 years − a historian explains its illustrious past and uncertain future
With Macy’s stores across the country shuttering, some Philadelphians are concerned about the fate of the 120-year-old instrument once touted as...
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/ 2 days agoHow a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory
‘Ours is the only city in Brazil where the Confederate flag flies,’ said a city council member in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste....
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/ 2 days agoWhat are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone
As the middlemen between drug companies and insurers, PBMs are shoo-ins as the villains behind high drug prices. But they do...
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/ 2 days agoHow to avoid the latest generation of scams this holiday season
Today’s scams aren’t like yesteryear’s.
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/ 2 days agoThe moral dimension to America’s flawed health care system
At a moment of soul-searching about health care in the US, an expert on global health puts the American system in...
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/ 2 days agoParents and caregivers: How to stop feeling like a Grinch and be more present with your kids this holiday season
Future-oriented thinking, rather than careening from moment to moment, can help parents have more meaningful moments with their children.
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/ 2 days agoFederal protection for monarch butterflies could help or harm this iconic species, depending on how it’s carried out
Will protecting monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act improve their chance of surviving? Not necessarily, 2 entomologists caution.
