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/ 3 months agoEmpowering engineering students through storytelling
Researchers asked engineering students to tell stories about challenges they had faced. Telling the stories, students said, made them more likely...
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/ 3 months agoClass and race can create divides between donors and a cause they support − putting stress on those nonprofits
To satisfy donors, a nonprofit felt forced to use language from the corporate world. In doing so, it was hard to...
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/ 3 months agoIntoxication nation: a double shot of US history
Alcohol is a window into American history, from 17th-century rum production to young people’s declining interest in drinking today.
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/ 3 months agoWhat are halal mortgages?
The access to halal mortgages, which provide interest-free housing loans, has been growing in the US.
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/ 3 months agoWill your phone one day let you smell as well as see and hear what’s on the other end of a call?
Phones that transmit odors sound like science fiction, but researchers are working on making them real.
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/ 3 months agoPlants get a GMO glow-up: Genetically modified varieties are coming out of the lab and into homes and gardens
Lose the prickles. Add bioluminescence. Up the nutrients without the bitter flavor. CRISPR gene editing is opening a new world of...
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/ 3 months agoHow researchers measure wildfire smoke exposure doesn’t capture long-term health effects − and hides racial disparities
Which is riskier for your health: a few days of very bad PM₂.₅ exposure or many more days of slightly bad...
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/ 4 months agoSunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they grow
Plants don’t just grow straight up. They can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. And studying these...
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/ 4 months agoCreative life after death − or yes, you can control spinoffs from beyond the grave
Even after departing this world, artists have plenty of legal tools to protect their creative vision.
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/ 4 months agoStudents ride the rails in this course to learn about sustainability and tourism
With 100 hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living...
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/ 4 months agoEndometriosis pain leads to missed school and work in two-thirds of women with the condition, new study finds
Black and Hispanic women are less likely to receive an endometriosis diagnosis, reflecting a possible systemic bias or disparity in health...
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/ 4 months agoAs attitudes toward wild predators shift, Colorado voters weigh a ban on hunting mountain lions
Colorado has spectacular scenery, but it comes with wild animals, and they sometimes wander into town. A ballot measure that would...
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/ 4 months agoWild ginseng is declining, but small-scale ‘diggers’ aren’t the main threat to this native plant − and they can help save it
There’s a widespread argument that ‘poachers’ are responsible for the scarcity of wild ginseng. But a scholar who has interviewed diggers...
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/ 4 months agoVoters’ ‘moral flexibility’ helps them defend politicians’ misinformation − if they believe the inaccurate info speaks to a larger truth
In a series of surveys, researchers studied when and why voters put up with inaccurate statements from their leaders.
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/ 4 months agoPhotographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border
Even though Bernal is known as the father of Chicano photography, his work has long been overlooked. Now he’s the subject...
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/ 4 months agoFujimori’s death won’t end pursuit of justice for Peruvian victims – or stop the strongman’s supporters from revering his legacy
Years after being ousted during his third term in office, the former Peruvian strongman was sentenced to 25 years in prison...
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/ 4 months agoKamala Harris effectively baited Donald Trump during the debate, drawing out his insecure white masculinity
Trump’s display during the debate shows that his white male insecurity is a liability to his candidacy − and a threat...
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/ 4 months agoTaylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris shows how big a role music is playing in the 2024 election
With Harris and Trump locked in a dead heat, getting their supporters to sing, scream and dance can cultivate an aura...
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/ 4 months agoA Nazi magazine regularly published manipulated photos and misinformation, long before the age of AI
The Nazis routinely shared altered photos in their official publication, the Illustrierter Beobachter, causing readers to question what was real or...
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/ 4 months agoSupreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. United States would have given Nixon immunity for Watergate crimes — but 50 years ago he needed a presidential pardon to avoid prison
President Gerald Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon 50 years ago is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity....
