Founded in 1820, Indiana University is one of the world’s foremost public institutions. With more than 112,000 students and 19,000 employees statewide, IU continues to pursue its core missions of education and research while building a foundation for the university’s enduring strengths in teaching and learning, world-class scholarship, innovation, creative activity, community engagement and academic freedom. Bloomington is the flagship campus of the university, and each one of IU’s seven campuses is an accredited, four-year degree-granting institution.
Though largely unread, party platforms are a vital clue about which groups hold real power in the two major national parties and can help predict what the government will actually do.
Most medical students at the university will no longer pay tuition.
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Pregnant people can contract toxoplasmosis, which causes birth defects like blindness and brain defects. The parasite is more common than you might think.
AI-powered chatbots with romantic and sexual roleplay features are growing in popularity.
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Artificial intelligence technologies are changing how users experience intimate romantic and sexual connections. These technologies bring many positive benefits, but there is a dark side.
Donors give more to social service groups, including homeless shelters, than to any other kind of charity besides religious institutions.
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Grants from foundations are gradually growing as a share of all the donations Americans make.
A lot of lead from gasoline, house paint and industrial emissions has ended up in soil, and it poses serious health risks.
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Common summer activities can expose you to a host of infectious diseases. But there are simple steps you can take to protect yourself from pathogens ranging from E. coli to T. gondii.
How blind can the justices be?
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Are concerns about Supreme Court justices’ ethics an old problem, a new one, political gamesmanship, or something more serious? Yes to all of it.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is greeted by supporters as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi on June 4, 2024.
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The ruling BJP failed to see that those who had not benefited from the country’s rapid economic growth were deeply unhappy.
Erin Merryn, center, flanked by Senators David J. Valesky, left, and Jeffrey D. Klein, at the New York state senate discussing Erin’s Law in October 2011.
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Erin’s Law requires the teaching of child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention classes from kindergarten through eighth grade. How it got adopted by 34 states is the story of one woman’s crusade.
Having compassion toward people in need is a top motivation for this demographic group to give.
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La géo-ingénierie peut-elle contribuer à réduire les risques du changement climatique pour la sécurité nationale des États, ou les aggraverait-elle au contraire en générant des tensions ?
Policymakers can find themselves caught between two conflicting economic goals: growth and equity.
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À medida que as ferramentas de IA para geração de imagens e vídeos se tornarem mais amplamente disponíveis, isso terá impactos na produção de pornografia.
There are benefits and negative impacts to the applications of AI in pornography.
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Since an eclipse only lasts a few minutes, you need more than just a handful of scientists running around collecting data on bird activity. That’s where a new app comes in.
Solar engineering is designed to reflect some of the Sun’s ray back into space.
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The big question: Would climate engineering like sending reflective particles into the stratosphere or brightening clouds help reduce the national security risks of climate change or make them worse?