Si vous craignez les OGM, sachez qu’il est aujourd’hui possible de manger des plantes génétiquement modifiées non OGM ! En tout cas pas aux yeux des autorités américaines.
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Foundational to the work of Holocaust educators and many teachers have been the survivors. Given there are fewer survivors who are alive today, how do educators inform future generations?
GMO crops have been rejected by many countries and consumers. Now, an international team of researchers are creating better crops using DNA editing–without inserting foreign genes into the plant.
You have to walk before you can run, and baby steps are the best way forward in Korea.
Although fewer black women were lynched in the US than men, their stories have been marginalized. Will a new memorial in Alabama help make their sacrifices known?
Recent research shows that US rivers are becoming saltier and more alkaline. Salt pollution threatens drinking water supplies and freshwater ecosystems, but there is no broad system for regulating it.
A recent study suggested that a chemical responsible for getting the body ready for sleep was suppressed in children by too much evening light. A circadian rhythm expert explains the dangers.
A new form of therapy gives people with dementia the opportunity to chat with other baseball fans, watch footage of old games and even play wiffle ball.
The last Carolina parakeet died in a zoo a century ago. A scientist tries to unravel some of this bird’s lasting mysteries.
The effects of war, economic tension and accidental deaths have been mitigated by a sport that both cultures treasure.
En muchas ciudades mexicanas, el aqua se trata como una moneda de cambio, un favor político que los oficiales públicos puedan intercambiar por votos, sobornos y poder.
A scholar who has profiled leaders like Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin says there is a method to understanding the madness.
In many Mexican cities, water is treated as a political bargaining chip – a favor that public officials can trade for votes, bribes or power.
McDonald’s recently announced it will make its Happy Meal, which accounts of about 15 percent of all sales, healthier. Will it make kids healthier? That’s unclear, but it could lower parents’ guilt.
For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it laid the foundation for spirituals and gospel songs.
Wearables help regular people track their activity, but sophisticated technology can give deeper insights to elite athletes.
Anyone who’s had the flu can attest that it makes them feel horrible. But why? What is going on inside the body that brings such pain and malaise? An immunologist explains.
A new report says a “culture of passing” led to the graduation scandal at Ballou High School in Washington, DC, but the scandal points to the much larger problem of chronic absenteeism in the US.
Patients in 29 states rely on medical marijuana to treat pain, nausea, seizures and other ailments. But all that could change.
Health care providers often recommend exercise to overweight people as a way to lose weight, but that often does not work. Injuries can occur, and frustration can mount. Can walking with them work?
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Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute; Professor of English, University of Connecticut
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Director, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Senior Research Scientist of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Science and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Associate Director of the ARMS Center for Gun Injury Prevention, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Education, University of Connecticut
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Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut
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Adjunct Professor of Genocide Studies and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
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Associate Research Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Earth Science, University of Connecticut
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University Teaching Fellow, Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Chief of Staff, Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Connecticut
