Clinton, who named drug companies among her enemies in this week’s debate, is pushing populist-inspired policies that could hamper the flow of new medicines.
Rouhani’s hand grows stronger thanks to Iran’s cooperation with Russia.
Reuters
Viewing human migration through the lens of natural history makes one thing clear: society needs to prepare for more migrations of people and the species we depend on.
The Supreme Court hears a case that will decide whether homes and businesses can earn money from distributed energy technologies, including demand response and home battery systems.
Growing numbers of US students are going abroad to study.
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Jason E. Lane, University at Albany, State University of New York
In recent years, a large market in higher education has emerged. From 2.1 million students studying abroad in 2001, the number has gone up to roughly 4.5 million. How is the US faring?
Idris Elba stars in Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation.
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By avoiding major cineplexes and going straight to Netflix subscribers, the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation is wading into some uncharted waters.
Don’t forget the genes!
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Nobel Prizes can go to at most three co-recipients. Journal articles, on the other hand, can have thousands of co-authors. Neither extreme is ideal, but how should we credit today’s science work?
Chocolate beans are everywhere these days.
Reuters
Environmental sustainability will not figure into this year’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, but the process helped build evidence – and consumer support – for inclusion in future DGAs.
UCSF neuroscience grad student Sama Ahmed, whose three-minute talk on ‘how to know your species’ won first place at the campuswide contest, will compete for the Grad Slam championship in Oakland May 4.
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Janet Napolitano, University of California, Office of the President
The president of one of the country’s leading research university systems argues that the academic community has to make sure researchers and scientists engage with the general public.
Five democratic candidates – plus, Joe Biden who has yet to announce.
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Men are harsher critics of research that reports evidence of gender bias in STEM fields, while women find it more compelling. How can we deal with the reality when we’re biased about bias?
Fracking fluids in Marcellus shale have contaminated groundwater but new study finds that the source is likely from surface spills, not leaks from underground wells.
Typically, researchers pool a bunch of brain scans to figure out the average way brains handle certain tasks. Instead, could they pick out individual brain profiles from a stack of 126 people’s scans?
Small but dangerous – and coming to the New World.
Rodolphe Gozlan
Rodolphe Gozlan, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
A small invasive fish known as the topmouth gudgeon has already wreaked havoc on European species and its arrival to the US and South America is only a matter of time.
Why is there so much attention being paid to ‘word gap’?
Jeff Moore
Teachers often view vocabulary building as the most important aspect of education. In reality, there are lots of other early learning experiences that children need to develop.
A protester holds a sign in support of Kim Davis, September 9 2015.
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Employing a unique literary method that blurred the genres of oral history and documentary prose, the Nobel Prize for Literature winner told the stories of a traumatized people.