The Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act, which comes into effect this summer, aims to provide access to quality career development programs for people of all age groups.
Popular Latino musicians like Café Tacvba didn’t make an appearance.
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At an event that bills itself as ‘the place to preview the technology of tomorrow today,’ one of the fastest-growing, youngest and most tech-savvy segments of the population was largely ignored.
Despite the high concentration of sharks in Cocos, some species have declined in number – a signal on the effectiveness of marine preserves.
Genna Marie Robustelli
Divers at the famed Cocos site off Costa Rica record declines in a number of shark species – a sign that marine preserves are limited protection against illegal fishing.
Supporters of the presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari celebrating.
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What appears to be a peaceful transference of presidential power in Nigeria – unprecedented in the country’s history – has global significance in the fight against cultist jihadism.
Should the EPA figure the cost of reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants for health reasons?
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A Supreme Court case could undo a key piece of the Obama’s environmental agenda, which hinges on whether the EPA should consider the costs of air pollution controls from coal plants.
STEM disciplines have come to have a large percentage of international students.
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Xueying Han, University of California, Santa Barbara
STEM disciplines have come to rely heavily on international students, raising questions about the direction of US immigration policy. Should international STEM graduates be encouraged to stay?
Tablets and smartphones in the classroom are new enough that there’s not a clear consensus on their usefulness.
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These insects are so much more than just the scourge of fruit bowls everywhere. They’re a key model system for all kinds of research that teaches us about our own brain and body systems.
Afghan women’s rights activists mourn during the burial ceremony of Farkhunda, an Afghan woman who was beaten to death in Kabul on March 22.
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The brutal mob attack on a young woman in the streets of Kabul reveals the instability of the Afghan government even after 12 years of US and NATO military support and aid.
Vladimir Putin appears on the Kremlin-backed news network Russia Today. The multi-platform channel has already garnered more than 2 billion views on YouTube, making it the most-watched news network on the video-sharing website.
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New research shows that black patients are more likely to have heart transplants at the worst-performing centers. So how do patients choose where to go for surgery?
A scholar, Lianne Mctavish, decided to use her own body as a site for learning.
Lianne McTavish
What do figure building competitions mean? A scholar decides to use her own body as a site for learning and comes away with fresh insights for feminism and life goals.
President Obama shows off a wooden snowflake made using advanced manufacturing techniques.
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Despite the hyper-partisanship in Washington, there appears to be agreement that the government should do more to invest in science and technology innovation.
Gay couple Andrew Wale (on right) and Neil Allard hold hold each other as they are interviewed by the media after marrying in the first same-sex wedding at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, southern England March 29, 2014.
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The ranks of labor unions have been decimated over the last half century by outsourcing and anti-union campaigns. The result has been rising inequality.
Seismic changes in the television industry have transformed the ways stories are told and consumed.
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Many refer to advances in television storytelling as novelistic or cinematic, but the medium deserves a term of its own: complex TV.
Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf photographed in October 2011 from NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft during an Operation IceBridge flight.
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Researchers find that ice around Antarctica shrank quickly last decade, raising concerns over this buttress against melting land-based ice and future sea-level rise.
President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress in 2009
Lawrence Jackson
When Republicans took over Congress, many observers predicted a goodbye to gridlock. Not so fast, however. Politicians say they hate filibusters – until they want to use them.
The ‘Blurred Lines’ verdict is only the most recent copyright ‘Controversy’ to erupt – just ask Prince.
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Like ambulance chasers, gimlet-eyed entertainment lawyers have been trained to detect the most trivial copyright infringements.
A powerful new genetic engineering technique allows scientists to precisely cut out and replace DNA in genes.
Jennifer Doudna/University of California Berkeley
Leading researchers have called for a ban on using a precise gene-editing technology on humans. How can CRISPR advance science and why is it raising concerns?
At the root of today’s racial troubles on campuses is the past, when most American universities were intimately connected to slave trade and slavery. Harvard, Princeton, Brown were no exception.
CRISPR-Cas systems provide a new way to target pathogenic bacteria, without some of antibiotics’ downsides.
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A naturally-occurring system discovered in bacteria holds promise as a way to fight pathogens – very specifically and without the risk of antibiotic resistance.