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/ 10 months agoThe roots of the Easter story: Where did Christian beliefs about Jesus’ resurrection come from?
Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.
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/ 10 months agoEaster 2024 in the Holy Land: a holiday marked by Palestinian Christian sorrow
A Christian Palestinian human rights scholar who grew up in Bethlehem writes about the special time of Easter, but also about...
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/ 10 months agoCancer often requires more than one treatment − an oncologist explains why some patients like Kate Middleton receive both chemotherapy and surgery
There are many approaches to treating cancer. Which ones work best is determined on an individual basis and informed by each...
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/ 10 months agoHorses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new research helps paleontologists understand the fossils we’ve found and those that are missing from the record
Horse fossils are abundant and widespread across North America. Scientists often use their long history to illustrate how species evolve in...
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/ 10 months ago‘The Amazon of Sports’ has already cornered baseball’s apparel market – and is now on the verge of subsuming baseball cards, too
Fanatics’ consolidation of the sports card industry risks a stagnant future for the hobby.
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/ 10 months agoI’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is how captains like me work with harbor pilots to avoid deadly collisions
Two ship pilots were on board the large cargo vessel that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. A veteran ship captain...
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/ 10 months agoAbortion drug access could be limited by Supreme Court − if the court decides anti-abortion doctors can, in fact, challenge the FDA
Two legal scholars who study abortion-related laws explain what happened at the Supreme Court in a case that could make it...
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/ 10 months agoNot having job flexibility or security can leave workers feeling depressed, anxious and hopeless
The way jobs are structured affects employee mental health, an analysis of more than 18,000 workers shows.
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/ 10 months ago3 ways to use the solar eclipse to brighten your child’s knowledge of science
If you have young kids, the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, represents a rare opportunity to teach them about science.
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/ 10 months agoAn annual pilgrimage during Holy Week brings thousands of believers to Santuario de Chimayó in New Mexico, where they pray for healing and protection
Hundreds of thousands of visitors come to the Santuario de Chimayó throughout the year, but the pilgrimage during the week before...
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/ 10 months agoTrump-era tax cuts contributed to a decline in higher ed giving, with fewer Americans donating to colleges and universities
Researchers who analyzed a decade of data detected a reduction in giving after millions of Americans stopped getting a tax break...
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/ 10 months agoPoliticians may rail against the ‘deep state,’ but research shows federal workers are effective and committed, not subversive
Years of research about the people who work in the federal government finds that most of them are devoted civil servants...
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/ 10 months agoHow AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
What mathematicians call ‘disordered collections’ can help engineers explore real-world worst-case scenarios. The simple card game Set illustrates how to predict...
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/ 10 months agoHelping children eat healthier foods may begin with getting parents to do the same, research suggests
Not knowing whether their children will eat the healthy food put on their plates, parents may prepare a less healthy dish...
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/ 10 months agoAbstinencia de la hierba: Más de la mitad de las personas que consumen cannabis medicinal para el dolor experimentan síntomas de abstinencia
La marihuana, aunque mucho menos peligrosa que muchas otras drogas, no está totalmente exenta de riesgos.
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/ 10 months agoSchools can close summer learning gaps with these 4 strategies
By targeting specific students, removing barriers and involving families and communities, school districts can make summer learning more accessible to students...
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/ 10 months agoAmazon, SpaceX and other companies are arguing the government agency that has protected labor rights since 1935 is actually unconstitutional
Nearly a century after the National Labor Relations Board’s creation, big corporations are arguing that it violates the US Constitution.
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/ 10 months agoExcessively high rents are a major burden for immigrants in US cities
The US economy relies on immigrants to fill jobs, but many of them are struggling with high rent burdens that make...
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/ 10 months agoGary, Indiana’s lawsuit against gunmakers is shot down by a new law, after surviving 25 years of appeals
Expect other states to pick up the civil-litigation torch.
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/ 10 months agoWhat is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the ground beneath our feet, as a soil scientist explains
Rock dust is only part of the story of soil. Living creatures, many of them too tiny to see, keep that...
