People living in larger bodies face constant discrimination and negative messages about their body weight.
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Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
Some approaches to translation are more true to the aims of the text than others.
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Translation involves more than just transferring words from one language to another. Better translations of study materials can improve both the diversity of study participants and research results.
Peace, joy and profit margins: Retailers sell Christmas trees at a markup of up to 500%.
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The agreement still leaves many unanswered questions, as well as concerns from vulnerable countries about who will qualify, who pays and who is in charge.
Many modern cars watch occupants – a plus for safety but not so much for privacy.
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Your car’s safety technology takes you into account. But a lot of that technology helps car companies collect data about you. Researchers are working on closing the gap between safety and privacy.
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet greets U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1976.
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It’s hard to overestimate the role Henry Kissinger played in Chile. A former Chilean diplomat describes the mark that the powerful statesman made in his country and elsewhere in the Global South.
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in November 2023.
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The first female justice on the Supreme Court was also the last justice to have served as an elected official. And her contributions to the court reflected her political experience and pragmatism.
Electroconvulsive therapy involves inducing a controlled seizure under anesthesia.
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Electroconvulsive therapy often evokes inaccurate images of seizing bodies and smoking ears. Better understanding of how it reduces depression symptoms can illuminate new ways to treat mental illness.
Would technologies like the airplane ever get off the ground without people balancing commitment to their vision with openness to new ideas?
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An intellectually humble person may have strong commitments to various beliefs − but balanced with an openness to the likelihood that others, too, may have valuable insights, ideas and evidence.
As suburbs encroach on farmland, residents’ risk of exposure to farm chemicals rises.
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New research provides evidence for the first time that the primary chemical in Roundup is reaching people in nearby homes, and it isn’t just from the food they eat.
A lead pipe in the kitchen ceiling of a home in Newark, N.J.
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The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
Pedir a una persona con problemas de memoria que cuente anécdotas de vacaciones pasadas puede ayudar a desencadenar un recuerdo feliz.
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Los estudios sugieren que pedir a los seres queridos con problemas de memoria que hablen de los recuerdos de las fiestas puede ayudarles a recuperar algunos recuerdos.
Las gradas de los partidos de los Kansas City Chiefs tienen un aspecto diferente al de antes.
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Candles on a large Hanukkah menorah shine in front of a Christmas tree at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, in 2015.
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Assimilation no doubt played a role in making Hanukkah the commercialized holiday it is today. But other factors shaped the modern festival, too, a scholar of Jewish studies and gender explains.
Trees of all kinds have pros and cons when it comes to sustainability.
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South of Cape Cod, fiddler crabs and marsh grass have long had a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s a different story in the North, where the harms can ricochet through ecosystems.
A honeybee approaches a sunflower at Wards Berry Farm in Sharon, Mass.
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Inert ingredients are added for purposes other than killing pests and are not required under federal law to be tested for safety or identified on pesticide labels.
A Hasidic man walks past a police patrol car in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.
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There has been a sharp uptick in crimes specifically targeting Muslim and Jewish people since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out in October 2023.
Voters in a county election, 1854.
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Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
There was no opposition to designating science as a human right.
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Decades ago, the international community codified science as a cultural right and protected expression of human creativity. Reaffirming science’s value can help it better serve humanity.
The search for the room-temperature superconductor continues.
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Claims about the discovery of a coveted room-temperature superconductor peppered the news in 2023. We pulled three stories from our archives on what superconductivity is and why scientists study it.