Black travelers want to see the travel industry embrace their full identities.
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Black travelers want the tourism industry to recognize their full identity. That will require more than procedural checkboxes and targeted advertising.
Responsible pet owners are on diligent poop patrol.
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The signs that remind you to pick up after your pet are not just trying to keep public spaces clean; they’re urging you to help safeguard your community’s health.
Letting AI do the dirty work of programming frees students to work on problem-solving.
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Learning to program requires mastering the nitty-gritty of code syntax. Generative AI turns out to be good at that. Adding AI to intro programming courses frees students to focus on problem-solving.
Cutaway view of a Nissan Leaf electric vehicle showing part of its battery array (silver boxes).
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Lithium-ion battery fires are becoming increasingly common as electric vehicles spread, and are hard to extinguish. A new approach uses an electrolyte based on a commercial fire extinguisher.
Bob Marley performs at a ‘Viva Zimbabwe’ independence celebration in April 1980.
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How did a musician whose songs were suffused with messages of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism become so commercialized?
Dragons on display in Shanghai. A dragon image is often used to symbolize China itself.
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According to the Chinese zodiac signs, each year in the lunar cycle is associated with a particular animal. The cycle repeats every 12 years.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, left, testifies before Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, right, in a courtroom sketch.
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Musk can’t dodge this ruling by moving Tesla’s incorporation to Texas.
A suspected Russian collaborator arrested in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Liberated cities are prone to vigilante justice against those accused of conspiring with the enemy.
These highways displaced many Black communities. Some Black activists are using mapping to do the opposite: highlight hidden parts of history.
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Black activists have long used maps to help illustrate their communities’ history and to document historical injustices.
The dark, far side of the Moon is the perfect place to conduct radio astronomy.
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Projects under NASA’s CLPS program – including the Odysseus lander that made it to the lunar surface – will probe unexplored questions about the universe’s formation.
Scientists have been studying the Clarkia site for nearly five decades.
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While NASA rovers on the surface of Mars look for hints of life, researchers back on Earth are studying ‘echoes of life’ from ancient basins – hoping that the two sites might be similar.
From CBC to CMP and beyond, blood test panels provide essential information to health practitioners.
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Your blood contains a wealth of information about the state of your health. Analyzing the levels of each component is an important part of diagnosis.
Your blood’s natural limit to how much oxygen it can hold means you can’t stockpile it.
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Inhaling air is how you get the oxygen your body needs to turn your food into energy. Other living things use different strategies.
Laws that govern cannabis use are changing across the nation.
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Students are invited to imagine how the social, political and legal landscape for cannabis will look in the future.
Donald Trump’s increasingly anti-immigrant campaign is steeped in race.
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The centrality of race to US politics is, once again, a defining feature of the current presidential campaign.
The headquarters of an Iranian-linked group in Anbar, Iraq was among the sites targeted by U.S. bombers.
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More than 85 locations linked to militias were hit in a robust response by Washington to an earlier deadly drone attack on a US base in Jordan.
President Joe Biden attends the arrival of the remains of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan.
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The US attacks on military sites in Iraq and Syria are unlikely to further escalate conflict in the Middle East, he writes.
Ceremonia de castigo por herejía, llamada “auto de fe”, en el pueblo de San Bartolomé Otzolotepec, en el actual México.
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La América Latina colonial albergaba muchas tradiciones espirituales diferentes de culturas indígenas, africanas y asiáticas.
No es muy acogedor.
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Una economía sin efectivo es una economía menos inclusiva.
President Joe Biden at Mother Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina on Jan. 8, 2024.
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During a campaign speech in South Carolina, President Biden made it clear that he is not only running against Donald Trump but also against white supremacy.
Volunteers at the 14th District Democratic headquarters for the midterm election in Detroit, Mich., on Nov 8, 2022. The 14th District map must now be redrawn.
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The commission has tight deadlines to finalize new maps. 2 voting rights experts explain the messy situation.
Only one of these guys deserves to be in timeout.
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Questions about how to ethically train different kinds of pets depend on the nature of those animals’ inner lives and their abilities to learn.
Climate marches and protests, like this one in Santa Monica, Calif., often aim for local impact.
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With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are radically rethinking how to be most effective in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
E. Jean Carroll, center, and her lawyers leave a Manhattan federal courthouse following the conclusion of the civil case against former president Donald Trump on Jan. 26, 2024.
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Before Donald Trump delivers any amount of monetary damages to E. Jean Carroll, he could engage in a long appeals process.
Federal courts can be high-pressure environments, even for judges.
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The retired judge says the judiciary doesn’t ‘do justice’ but follows the law and the facts, which doesn’t always mean a sympathetic or compassionate ending.