Progressives have cheered Disney in its battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over LGBTQ rights. But joining forces with corporations poses risks when principles no longer align with profits.
Investors don’t like it when companies do one thing and then say another.
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Only 218 programs offer credit-bearing college programs in prison. That’s about to change.
The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code.
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Many of the amino acids that make up proteins are encoded by genetic material in more than one way. An information theorist explains how principles of nature may account for this variance.
2023’s weather has been extreme in many ways.
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Michael Wysession, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
The bad news: Extreme heat is probably going to stick around for a couple of more years.
Hunter Biden arrives at federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, to review a plea deal on misdemeanor tax charges.
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Plea deals are common in American criminal courts. But in the federal government’s tax case against Hunter Biden, the judge refused to sign off on a deal.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends the State of the Union address on Feb. 7, 2023.
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Two Supreme Court rulings on the use of race appear at odds with each other. Blame Chief Justice Roberts’s ambivalence on race, a constitutional law scholar writes.
The natural world is an important part of Pagan practice.
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Practitioners of Pagan religions no longer need to go into a forest to find an object for their altars. Commercialization means that sacred objects are available online.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville speaks to reporters about his hold on promotions of hundreds of high-ranking military officers.
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Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.
Parking consumes 20% or more of prime locations in many U.S. downtowns.
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US cities are starting to reform laws that required developers to provide minimum amounts of parking. But there’s more they can do to loosen the auto’s grip on downtowns.
For many people with fragile X, the mutated gene that causes symptoms is active rather than silenced.
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Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited form of intellectual disability. Using short bits of DNA to fix improperly transcribed genes may one day be a potential treatment option.
New measurements from Japan’s Subaru telescope have helped researchers study the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem.
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The way particles interacted while the universe was forming seconds after the Big Bang could explain why the universe exists the way it does – a physicist explains matter-antimatter asymmetry.
Teamsters employed by UPS practiced holding rallies ahead of the strike that wasn’t.
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NATO gets the headlines, but the Five Eyes alliance is another close connection between key Western powers, and it may expand.
Former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial will take place at the Alto Lee Adams Sr. United States Courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida.
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Laughter is so fundamental that animals like chimps, rats and dogs share the ability with humans. But in people it serves more serious social functions than just letting others know you’re having fun.
Learning how to treat endocrine disorders in horses may also lead to treatments in people, and vice versa.
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Horses and humans share biological similarities that lead them to suffer from similar endocrine and orthopedic diseases. A number of treatments that work for one species often work for the other.
American Muslim women on pilgrimage at the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina in 2023.
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A religion scholar argues that the communal nature of Islamic pilgrimage helps worshippers go through a physically demanding schedule and creates camaraderie that continues beyond the pilgrimage.