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Kansas legislators Brenda Landwehr, left, and Chris Croft confer during a vote on an anti-transgender bathroom bill, which both support.
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A scholar of young adult fiction presents a fresh list of LGBTQ ‘must-reads’ for the summer of 2023.
Overtly hostile behavior tends to diminish with age except for a minority of children who are at risk of later criminality. This makes childhood a critical time for steering those most in-need away from difficult life paths.
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Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous teens have different online experiences – both positive and negative – than their white peers. These differences are overlooked when research focuses on white kids.
Some airlines are already experimenting with sustainable aviation fuel.
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Airlines are investing in sustainable biofuel startups and starting to uses alternative fuels, including cooking oil, ag waste and corn ethanol. But biofuels alone won’t be enough, research shows.
Will an aging, shrinking population put the brakes on economic growth?
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For the first time since 1961, deaths in China have outpaced births – and unlike that one-year decline, the downward trend is likely to continue.
Heavy rainfall from an atmospheric river triggered mudslides in the Los Angeles area on Jan. 9, 2023.
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The role of then-President Donald Trump and his aides and advisers is important, but there is a lot more to the story of Jan. 6, 2021, than what happened behind closed doors.
Redwood forests like this one in California can store large amounts of carbon, but not if they’re being cut down.
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Millions of dollars have gone into California’s forest carbon offset program – with little new carbon storage to show for it, a new study suggests.
The Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam provides enough electricity for about 147,000 homes in the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
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The metaverse is still unfolding, but it has been developing for more than a century. Rudimentary virtual worlds have existed – in imagination and reality – since the days of the telegraph.
Humans are the only animals that express their thoughts in full sentences.
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Video cameras on city streets are only the most visible way your movements can be tracked.
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It’s not logical to believe your relationship is “meant to be.” But believing in destined love may have evolved as a way to keep couples together long enough to reproduce and raise children.
Predictable and consistent parental behavior can include set routines for meals and transportation.
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Parents are often the primary source of information that children receive from their environment. How consistent parents’ interactions with their children are matters.
The past decade has seen a flurry of young adult fiction written from a queer perspective.
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A scholar of queer literature takes a closer look at five books that are pushing the envelope on society’s understanding of LGBTQ life.
The metaverse might be a work in progress, but a key prototype – the virtual world – has been around for several decades.
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