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In our urban world, turning the makeshift and the informal into the livable and sustainable is our greatest challenge.
A challenge in eradicating polio comes from a version of the vaccine itself, which relies on live but attenuated virus. Rationally designing a new vaccine could help get rid of polio once and for all.
As a human evolution researcher, I was very excited to work with the creator of the Assassin’s Creed games.
Societal pressures make it hard for people living in low-income areas to change their ways.
Banditry in northern Nigeria is making an already precarious security situation in the region worse.
In India’s far northeast, tensions are beginning to emerge in the 22-year peace process to end India’s longest insurgency.
Indonesia’s top engineer and former president, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie or B.J. Habibie, who built the country’s aircraft industry from scratch, died at 83 in Jakarta on Wednesday.
She left Sydney Ladies’ College at 14 to marry an alcoholic future king. But the life of Queen Marau deserves to be written outside the shadow of her royal husband.
K2-18 b is now the exoplanet most likely to be habitable.
Amid New Year celebrations in Ethiopia, questions still linger around the possibility for sustained peace and stability.
Culturally, the joker turns socially significant places into spaces of carnival, revealing cracks within the social order. He is an enduring character – and a common figure in 2019.
Why do astronomers believe there’s dark matter when it cannot be directly detected? Let’s look at the evidence, and see what dark matter’s presence means for our universe.
There are studies showing that farmers can have economic benefits from palm oil. However, they can also be impoverished by the commodity.
Claims that tweets on the Canadian election are the work of bot accounts, without empirical evidence or verification, need to be taken with a grain of salt.
After a decade of nearly uninterrupted growth, the German economy is stuttering.
The use of big data by companies, even when perfectly legal, can harm people.
One of the world’s largest producers of oil has lost a legal battle that could have dire consequences on its fragile economy.
The Western Ghats are a global biodiversity hotspot, but urgently need better legal protection.
Pope Francis recently completed a tour of three African nations. His visit needs to be understood in the context of the church’s long history in Africa and its modern-day difficulties.
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