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Although the COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, they have been insufficient at preventing breakthrough infections.
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The latest addition to the omicron lineage has been making waves in Europe. Whether it will do the same in the U.S. depends on rates of vaccination and prior infection.
The media plays an important role in the way people learn to view themselves and others.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought immunology terms that are typically relegated to textbooks into our everyday vernacular. These stories helped us make sense of the ever-evolving science.
Le 24 février 2022, jour du début de l’offensive russe en Ukraine, Vladimir Poutine reçoit au Kremlin des représentants du monde des affaires.
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Les oligarques tiennent un rôle central au sein du système politico-économique de la Russie. Décryptage de leur relation complexe avec Poutine.
La radioactivité résiduelle à Tchernobyl reste forte par endroit, d'où l'instauration d'une zone d'exclusion vierge de toute présence humaine permanente (zone de la Forêt rouge).
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Si la centrale de Tchernobyl n’est plus en fonction, elle est au cœur d’une zone toujours très irradiée que les mouvements de troupes peuvent déstabiliser. Avec quels effets pour la population ?
Putin has kept most oligarchs at a distance – literally and figuratively.
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An expert on oligarchs explains how they came to be Russia’s richest and most powerful people and scrutinizes their relationship with Putin.
Much of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986.
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With Russian troops rolling through the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, a biologist who studies wildlife in the area describes the risks of disturbing this radioactive landscape.
Researchers are working to develop vaccines that provide long-term immune protection from COVID-19.
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Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and editors what they want, or wallow in obscurity.
A woman in Ukraine appears to pray as she waits for a train out of Kyiv.
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Some of the omicron variant’s unique properties – such as its ability to spread rapidly while causing milder COVID-19 infections – could usher in a new phase of the pandemic.
Experts help explain the context around the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and subsequent trial and convictions of Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William Bryan.
Used car and truck prices are up 31% over the previous year.
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Sixty percent of the Standard American Diet consists of ultra-processed food, which isn’t great for colon health. Researchers are looking into whether artificial food colors play a role.
Black men who have sex with men in Southern states have a low rate of using HIV prevention treatments.
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This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Murderers who will face maximum sentence of life in prison.
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