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ICE detention facilities suffer from outdated systems, a lack of translation services – and a penchant for releasing ailing…
Research funding is down in recent years despite promises made with the CHIPS and Science Act.
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising…
Science fiction and technological innovation feed off each other in an ongoing back-and-forth that can play out over decades.
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
The company helped spur a public health crisis through its deceptive marketing and aggressive sales of prescription opioids.
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Laws that scrap diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campus are likely to result in less support for LGBTQ+ students,…
Setting off fireworks at home was as much a pandemic trend as buying a Peloton.
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A photo of Lucy’s reconstructed skeleton next to a live four-year-old girl shows how human Lucy was – and how small.