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/ 2 years agoSouth Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world – and that doesn’t bode well for its economy
South Korea’s fertility rate fell below the level needed to sustain a population in the mid-1980s – and it never recovered....
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/ 2 years agoCOVID-19 hurt kids’ math learning more than reading and writing – with the biggest setbacks in fall 2020
A new analysis of standardized test scores from elementary schools in Michigan pinpoints when during the pandemic students fell most behind.
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/ 2 years agoStates are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce
Some of the biggest changes to child labor laws are in Iowa and Arkansas.
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/ 2 years agoBMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place
Overreliance on BMI as a measure of weight and health has deepened inequities and led to inaccuracies and overgeneralizations.
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/ 2 years agoTaking students to the range to learn about gun culture firsthand
In this course, a gun range becomes a classroom for students to explore their previously held beliefs about firearms.
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/ 2 years agoDo you crush microbes when you step on them?
You can squash small bugs by stepping on them, but can you crush even tinier microorganisms like viruses and bacteria? It...
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/ 2 years agoAsian folktales offer moral lessons that help reduce racial prejudice in children
Children’s books that feature Asian protagonists are rare. Two scholars decided to offer their own in their attempt to reduce racial...
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/ 2 years agoSupreme Court is not committed to a major innovation in transparency it started during the pandemic
The Supreme Court has not yet committed to making livestreaming oral arguments a permanent part of its work. But this measure...
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/ 2 years agoWagner’s mutiny punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image and exposed cracks in his rule
Signs of discontent among Russian nationalists and Wagner had been growing before a column of paramilitaries began an aborted march on...
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/ 2 years agoA year after Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Black women still struggle for access to reproductive health care
Even with laws to protect a woman’s right to have an abortion, Black women found it hard to find access to...
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/ 2 years agoDanger, prestige and authenticity draw thrill-seekers to adventure tourism
Advances in technology have allowed tourists to go to places and do things they couldn’t in the past. But in extreme...
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/ 2 years agoJa Morant shows how a ‘good guy with a gun’ can never be Black
America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger to the...
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/ 2 years agoTitan submersible disaster underscores dangers of deep-sea exploration – an engineer explains why most ocean science is conducted with crewless submarines
Dramatic improvements in computing, sensors and submersible engineering are making it possible for researchers to ramp up data collection from the...
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/ 2 years agoSupreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation
By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a case over water rights in the...
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/ 2 years ago3M offers $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems – now, how do you destroy a ‘forever chemical’?
PFAS can be filtered, but getting rid of the chemicals is a monumental challenge. A biochemist and soil scientist explain.
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/ 2 years agoMore than 1.5 million Americans lost Medicaid coverage in the spring of 2023 due to the end of pandemic policies – and paperwork problems
The health coverage program’s enrollment soared during the three years after March 2020 due to temporary policies adopted at the start...
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/ 2 years agoMigrants often can’t access US health care until they are critically ill – here are some of the barriers they face
More than 11 million migrants who lack papers live in the United States, and many of them are ineligible for health...
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/ 2 years agoProcessing and grieving an ongoing loss – such as a child with a devastating injury or disability – does not fit neatly into traditional models of grief
Letting go of what could have been is a critical step in handling ambiguous loss.
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/ 2 years agoThe folly of making art with text-to-image generative AI
Visual artists draw from visual references, not words, as they imagine their work. So when language is in the driver’s seat...
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/ 2 years agoThere is no legal reason the US shouldn’t supply cluster bombs to Ukraine – but that doesn’t make it morally right
Both sides in the Ukrainian war are thought to have used cluster munitions. The weapon takes a heavy toll on civilians...
