It's often more effective, cheaper and less controversial than other efforts to confront climate change.
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If you're having issues with your partner, one of you might need a nice dose of humility.
Even when everything's going great in your relationship, you likely harbor some ambivalence toward your partner deep…
Despite impassioned pleas for gun control legislation after 2018's mass shooting at a Florida high school, Congress…
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Relying only on sanctions against North Korea may not be a productive way to get the country to give up its nuclear arms.…
Pope Francis is meeting bishops for a global summit to discuss sexual abuse by clergy. Such a response, says an expert,…
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As Congress and President Trump struggle to devise a coherent immigration policy along the US southern border, there are…
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Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. But to raise big yields from small…
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The likes of AB InBev and MillerCoors have been trying to jump on the craft beer bandwagon by snapping up artisanal breweries.…
Many pieces leading to Alzheimer's disease have been identified. To put the pieces together, one scholar argues that…
Blood tests used to diagnose malaria can't detect low levels of the disease causing parasite and are hard to administer.…
The government shutdown provided a short-term version of what some activists have long wanted: A government small enough…
Intimacy with robots is closer than you think, and cities are already fighting the advent of sexbot brothels. Yet society…