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More architects are using wood construction for large buildings. A resource economist argues any increase in demand for wood will push commercial growers to better manage forests.
The thoughtfulness counts more than the timeliness.
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Under normal circumstances, Trump’s criminal record and other aspects of his life, including financial history, would disqualify him from getting access to classified information.
The total value of assets held by donor-advised funds is soaring.
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LGBTQ+ voters make up a relatively small percentage of the American electorate. But they’re poised to play an outsize role in the
‘tipping-point’ states most likely to decide the election.
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Pesquisadores perfuram a Geleira Guliya, no Planalto Tibetano, por amostras: análise dos genomas de vírus permitiu vislumbrar 41 mil anos de história de adaptação dos micro-organismos às mudanças climáticas.
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Amostras de gelo extraídas do Planalto Tibetano permitiram aos cientistas recuperar o equivalente a 1.705 espécies de vírus, cujos genomas contam a história de 41 mil anos de mudanças climáticas.
The researchers drilling on the Guliya Glacier.
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From ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 virus species. Reading their genomes tells the story of 41,000 years of climate change.
Turns out, people like it when their information is delivered in a straightforward way.
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Older adults are at risk for contracting STDs – not only because of stigma and infrequent condom use, but also because of physical changes due to aging.
Friends again? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad.
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Following the most violent anti-Syrian riots to date in Turkish areas with large Syrian refugee populations, Turkey and Syria are on a delicate path to rapprochement that will affect the Middle East.
Former President Donald Trump walks out of a Manhattan courthouse after he was found guilty in his hush money trial on May 30, 2024.
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Under normal circumstances, Trump’s criminal record and other aspects of his life, including financial history, would disqualify him from getting access to classified information.
Many people who hold political views are uncertain about their opinions.
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The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme actions relating to that issue.
A colorized engraving depicts enslavers selling enslaved people in the 19th-century South.
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Shaun Eaves, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Jamey Stutz, The Ohio State University; Kevin Norton, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Pedro Doll, University of Canterbury
When landslides or glaciers bring rocks to the surface, cosmic rays bombard them, smashing common atoms into rarer forms and acting as a chronometer of the changing Earth.
Microbes make a home among the starch grains of your sourdough starter.
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A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.