The majority of Kenyans appear to be happy as President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga’s pledge to “build bridges.”
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According to one study, more than 8 million people per year die early from air pollution exposure.
Science can’t just stay in the ivory tower. But what does impact really mean and how does it happen? A study of more than a decade of ecological fieldwork projects in Bolivia suggests a better way.
Deaths of chess players led to alarm the game could cause fatal stress. Some researchers have tested that theory.
The cultural appropriation debate has flared after an American teenager wore a qipao, a Chinese-style dress, to her prom. But the meanings around the dress are complicated.
Provincial governments in Atlantic Canada have been trying to encourage immigrants to become entrepreneurs for more than a decade. Some are boldly answering the call.
A scholar of literary radicalism asks whether Marx’s writings are at all relevant to the world’s struggles with inequality today and why he’s no longer being relegated to the dustbin of history.
A survey of British adults shows they have different views on different Asian groups.
Pollutants can increase stress levels, which in turn affects judgment and makes some people more likely to commit crime.
A US$1.6 billion dollar dam in Sumatra threatens the recently discovered and desperately imperilled Tapanuli Orangutan.
New techniques for genetic analysis are helping us build more detailed and accurate stories about the ancient histories of the first Australians.
Locations like border towns as well as people acting as middlemen provide key insights into Uganda’s ivory trade.
As Israel approaches the 70th anniversary of its establishment, many older American Jews will be celebrating. Many younger ones will wonder whether the Jewish state is something to celebrate at all.
Study finds that coal pollution in China is leading to people getting significant levels of mercury poisoning from rice.
Russian politics depends on a competition between different power networks. And hardline nationalists are winning at the expense of reformers.
Arthur Wharton, Walter Tull, Hassan Hegazi, Mohammed Salim and Frank Soo each made footballing history and their stories deserve to be better known.
Humans butchered a rhino in a remote part of the Philippines 700,000 years ago, but who were they and how did they get there?
Who’s really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
Scientists often use animals and plants as indicators to assess whether ecosystems are polluted. Tracking bats, which cover wide areas and need clean water, could become a way to find potable water.
One hundred and forty thousand people died when a major hurricane hit Myanmar in 2008. Would the country be better prepared today?
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