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What kind of coffee you buy matters a lot to birds — key indicators of biodiversity in the tropics which likely provide many environmental and economic services.
If you’re always above average, it’s probably time to redefine what’s normal. The new normal for Earth’s climate is systematically rising temperatures.
The dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank 1865-1874
The FCC proposal could prevent content discrimination but wouldn’t solve the main problem: most rules governing the web are 80 years old.
It’s often said the medical tourism can help support public health systems in developing countries. But that often isn’t the case.
Research shows that testing kids is detrimental and technology could offer a better way to track learning.
An eyewitness to Libya’s optimism after the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi asks how it has become a base for ISIS.
China supplanted the US as Africa’s biggest partner in 2009, but the Americans are hoping to catch up.
In the beginning, newscasters weren’t even visible to TV news viewers. With Walter Cronkite, everything changed.
With increasing knowledge and familiarity, we’ll no longer be able to identify meaningful criteria to keep these good planets down.
Regions that depend on shellfish heavily for their economy and with limited information exchange will be hit hardest by ocean acidification.
Economic research over the past 50 years shows efforts to regulate telecoms as utilities doesn’t work.
Kids are flu super spreaders, which is why locating vaccination programs in schools can protect whole communities.
Kate Daniels, the director of Vanderbilt’s creative writing program, recalls the life and work of her mentor, a man “devoted…to creating gritty and empathetic portraits of American blue collar workers.”
What makes some communities more vulnerable to the use of violence than others?
Not too long ago, state capitalism was considered a relic of the mid-20th century. Not anymore.
No matter how strong an organization’s cybersecurity, our own bad behavior could make us the “unintentional insiders” for the next big hack.
Cybersecurity at the national level requires information sharing across industries and government – emerging models how this can be done effectively.
The history of race science is a history of racist science, as epitomized by this proposed but never carried-out experiment from the early 20th century.
Innovative materials science converts waste carbon dioxide into stable, harmless baking soda in reusable “microcapsules.”
The trick is to trade on companies linked to the news, not those in the news.
Big organizations don’t always lead to lower costs or better care.
Greek and Roman historians were also known to fudge or fabricate their time in the field.
US and European policy is pushing Russia into China’s arms.