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Yuko Sato, an associate professor of veterinary medicine who works with poultry producers, explains why so many birds are getting sick and whether the outbreak threatens human health.
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As progressives in Congress cast attention on Medicare for All legislation this week, research published Thursday highlighted that Americans are frustrated and struggling due to the for-profit U.S. healthcare system.
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CEOs can't stop bragging on corporate earnings calls about jacking up prices on consumers to keep their profits soaring
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Aristotle was one of the first to divide systems into those ruled by one, those ruled by a few and those ruled by many.
Using lake sediment in the Tibetan Plateau, researchers show that permafrost at high elevations is more vulnerable than arctic permafrost under projected future climate conditions.
Government funding cuts to key pandemic programs forced by GOP opposition arrive as progressives in Congress renew their push for Medicare for All.
Studies do show tornadoes getting more frequent, more intense and more likely to come in swarms. The most intense and longest-lasting tornadoes tend to come from what are known as supercells
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The United States was founded at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has met with extraordinary business success from the days of its founding. Upon that success was built the broad prosperity of the new nation and the opportunity for great fortunes for the bold.
Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.
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Implementing carbon prices that reflect the true social costs of CO2 emissions through climate damages remains a key challenge for policy makers around the world.
Brace yourselves, allergy sufferers – new research shows pollen season is going to get a lot longer and more intense with climate change.
The Federal Reserve has begun its most challenging inflation-fighting campaign in four decades. And a lot is at stake for consumers, companies and the U.S. economy.
In coming decades, many regions of the world will enter permanent dry or wet conditions under modern definitions of drought, according to new research.
The Knowledge Age of the past two decades was supposed to bring greater understanding and even enlightenment. So why are people so emotional, misinformed, and unreasonable?
I used to believe several things about the twenty-first century that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 have shown me are false.
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