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30 years after ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jay-Z’s career embodies hip-hop’s biggest contradictions
What happens when a rapper whose early work explored capitalism’s brutality becomes one of the system’s most successful beneficiaries?
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Beyond car seats and childproof pill bottles: A child psychologist explains how to empower kids to make safer choices
Unintentional injuries kill 20 US children every day. Building a family culture of safety can help them learn to make wise choices.
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Coming out on TV in 1970 could have ruined your life – so why did activists do it?
Coming out on television in the 1970s was a radical act of protest.
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Climate warnings need to be told in tangible ways to prevent disaster
The science will tell us what is likely to happen. The harder question is whether that knowledge reaches people in a form they can feel and act on.
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Can wiggling your pinky really stop cognitive decline?
TikTokers are promoting ‘pinky time’, a finger exercise they claim can help keep the brain sharp.
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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is treated with ‘nanobubbles’. What are they and how do they work?
Nanobubbles are invisible, mysteriously stable, a thousand times thinner than a human hair, and surprisingly versatile.
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Earth’s oldest crater really is over 3 billion years old, new study confirms
The oldest known impact structure on Earth has been confirmed in outback Australia.
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We discovered a new rock type containing garnet inside a meteorite fragment from Mars
This is the first evidence that the mineral garnet may have been formed within the crust of Mars itself, heralding clues to the planet’s complex history.
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The Montréal shooting spotlights the growing public safety threat of online radicalization
Countering violent extremism requires substantial investment from all levels of government, dismantling the state’s racialized assumptions of criminality and recognizing that gendered violence is systemic.
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The US is leading the new space race – but other countries are close behind
It can be easy to lose sight of the fact that the US isn’t the only major actor in space.