From the racism and poverty of the Jim Crow South, Willie Mays rose to the height of fame and respect as perhaps the country’s greatest baseball player – one who inspired a president.
Studying pregnancy from multiple disciplines could provide new insights.
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If the ocean circulation, known as AMOC, shuts down, it would be a climate disaster, particularly for Europe and North America. New research shows why that might not happen as soon as some fear.
Le bilan carbone, un outil imparfait.
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Sur le papier, la France a été pionnière en matière de bilan carbone. Mais qu’ont vraiment changé les lois votées ? Comment les entreprises se sont-elles approprié ces textes ?
People line up for ice provided by a utility company during a 2019 power outage in Brooklyn.
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Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
A educação de crianças tanto em países de baixa renda como o Sudão do Sul quanto em países desenvolvidos como os EUA já está sendo afetada negativamente pelos extremos das mudanças climáticas.
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Ensinar as crianças sobre a crise ambiental pode ajudar a combater as mudanças climáticas, mas as mudanças climáticas já estão afetando negativamente a educação de crianças em todo o mundo
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed in 1933 the law that led to the National Labor Relations Board’s emergence.
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Nearly a century after the National Labor Relations Board’s creation, big corporations are arguing that it violates the US Constitution.
The education of students in countries like Sudan is already being negatively affected by the extremes of climate change.
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Teaching children about the environmental crisis can help fight climate change, but climate change is already negatively affecting children’s education around the globe.
Donald Trump sits in a New York courtroom with Chris Kise and Alina Habba, two of his attorneys who have reportedly been paid with political action committee funds.
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Trump-aligned political action committees have paid lawyers for the former president tens of millions of dollars. Are there any limits on how much, or on what, they can spend?
Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visits a marine base in Port Sudan on 28 August 2023.
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Louis Brus explica algunos de los fundamentos de la investigación y cómo la KGB investigó su relación con el científico ruso Alexei Ekimov, con quien comparte el premio Nobel de Química 2023.
Louis Brus, center, shares Nobel recognition with two other quantum dots pioneers.
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Louis Brus, one of the newest Nobel laureates in chemistry, speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Para combater a desinformação e aumentar a confiança da população na ciência é preciso ir além do letramento científico, ensinando e estimulando a capacidade de análise para a formação de opiniões embasadas.
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Não basta restabelecer confiança da população na ciência para vencer a desinformação. É urgente criar sistemas eficazes para ensinar crianças e jovens a pensar de forma racional e crítica
Children wave peace doves at a concert for peace in Bogota, Colombia, in August 2022.
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While Americans tend not to use the word “peace,” and instead opt for terms like “safety and security,” their desires and fears are not so different from what people in war-torn places express.
Une femme dans un centre de conseil pour les victimes de viol à Paoua, à 500 km au nord-ouest de Bangui, en République centrafricaine.
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Le taux de natalité était plus faible et le taux de mortalité nettement plus élevé dans les zones échappant au contrôle du gouvernement en République centrafricaine.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act on Aug. 16, 2022, including electric vehicle subsidies with ‘buy American’ rules.
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Joe Biden’s ‘buy American’ effort with EVs likely violated World Trade Organization rules that the US helped create. The US has an opportunity now to update the system – if it’s willing to take it.