Cassava: The perilous past and promising future of a toxic but nourishing crop
Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity…
Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity…
Mountain tourism brings revenues to Nepal but leaves a mess behind. Local and international groups are offering new cleanup…
When asked, students say that touch is important in developing reading and writing skills. Research backs them up.
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Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually…
A social science researcher followed a dozen teens from different neighborhoods in North, West and Northeast Philadelphia,…
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A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn…
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In Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, famine affects increasing numbers of people.