By Amnesty International
Northeastern Nevada, historically, is a gold mining area. I was a kid in the 1980s when I first noticed a gold boom in Elko. The gold mines are about 20 to 30 miles away. Since then, a lot of people have come into town and the town itself has grown. We didn’t have a Walmart, […] The post Fermina Stevens: “We want to protect our Indigenous land in Nevada from the dangerous impact of lithium mining” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Michele Ramsay, Director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Professor in the Division of Human Genetics, University of the Witwatersrand
Ananyo Choudhury, Reader at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand
Most genetic studies focus on people from European ancestry. But Africa has the richest diversity and must be included in genetic databases.
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By Romaric Armel Mouafo Tchinda, Post-doctoral Researcher in the Biology department, Université de Sherbrooke
Aaron I. Plex Sulá, PhD Candidate, University of Florida
Jacobo Robledo Buritica, Plant Pathologist and PhD Candidate, University of Florida
Karen Garrett, Preeminent Professor in the Plant Pathology Department, Global Food Systems Institute and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida
Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.
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By Richard Lachman, Director, Zone Learning & Professor, Digital Media, Toronto Metropolitan University
Companies like Meta and IBM are exploring explore how AI can hyper-personalize ads, drawing from our chat histories, playing to our unique fears and vanities.
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By Marycarmen Lara Villanueva, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
The recruitment into gangs is not simply an issue of individual criminality or policing, but the result of institutional failures and conditions that make some youth more vulnerable.
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By Jilly Gibson-Miller, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sheffield
The MV Hondius outbreak shows why quarantine is not only a medical measure, but a profound test of trust, routine and resilience.
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By Robert I. Harris, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Suspending the federal gas tax, which would require Congress to agree, would drop gas prices only about 4% – less in high-cost states like California.
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By Thomas Fraise, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Copenhagen; Sciences Po
AI-powered cyber-security: the rise of new frontier platforms like Mythos highlights nuclear arsenals’ potential weak spots, and complicates the gambles inherent in nuclear deterrence.
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By Stephan Blum, Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
Stefan Baumann, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, KU Leuven
Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. But the real surprise isn’t just where the fragment was found. It’s how it got there. To understand, we must go back – to the Iliad itself, and to what it became in the Roman world.
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By Holly Tessler, Senior Lecturer, Music Industries; Programme Leader, MA Beatles, Heritage and Culture, University of Liverpool
The museum will feature seven floors of never-seen-before material, rotating exhibitions, a fan store and the recreation of the studio where Let it Be was recorded.
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