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Massachusetts is establishing the first US green bank dedicated to sustainable affordable housing. Three experts in climate finance explain why better housing can help rein in global warming.
Face masks depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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Russian authorities have given no legitimate justification for dropping criminal cases against rebel troops – undermining both President Vladimir Putin and the legal system.
Strep is most common in children between the ages of 5 and 15.
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Despite an abundance of research on strep, there is still a great deal of debate in the scientific community over whether and when people should get tested and treated for it.
President Joe Biden and other world leaders are together at the 2023 NATO summit in Lithuania on July 11, 2023.
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The NATO summit is a chance for world leaders to hash out difficult topics, like the war in Ukraine – and for the US to show off its leadership, writes a former diplomat.
Les neurones artificiels peuvent-ils servir de modèle pour comprendre les vrais neurones ?
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L’IA permet-elle de modéliser certaines pathologies neurologiques ? La question peut se poser pour l’épilepsie, où le cerveau a une activité excessive… Quelles sont les limites aux comparaisons ?
Harvard students protesting on July 1, 2023, after the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action.
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The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action programs reverses nearly 50 years of its own decisions that ruled diversity was of vital national importance.
Lithium, essential for EV batteries, could be South America’s white gold.
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China is a major investor in Latin America’s renewable energy and critical minerals like lithium, but countries like Chile are also taking steps to secure their own clean energy future.
A window into a new way of doing global economic business.
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Talk of a joint BRICS currency feeds into ‘decline of the dollar’ rhetoric. But it is the economic bloc’s focus on innovation that will reshape the international system.
Personal computers started an information technology revolution. Will AI bring similarly dramatic changes?
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New digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades, with a mixed record on the economy and individuals’ daily lives. AI’s effect will likely be just as unpredictable.
A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest.
La sculpture “Méduse avec la tête de Persée” de Luciano Garbati. Avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste.
Luciano Garbati
As drone strikes become a more routine part of warfare, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are used in warfare is needed, writes a former US diplomat.
A close up of the sculpture ‘Medusa with the head of Perseus,’ by Luciano Garbati. Image courtesy of the artist.
Luciano Garbati
Lifestyle factors like physical activity, diet and sleep can lower the ‘biological age’ of your cells and tissues and reduce age-related physical decline.
The Ukraine military tests drones near Kyiv in August 2022.
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As the drone market continues to expand, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are used in warfare is needed, writes a former US diplomat.
A copy of the ‘Art of War’ from a collection at the University of California, Riverside.
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The ‘Washington Declaration’ unveiled during the state visit by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gives Seoul a greater role in coordinating a nuclear response strategy.