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Le changement climatique a doublé le nombre de vagues de chaleur dans le monde : quel impact en Afrique
L’an dernier, l’Afrique a connu 14 des 67 vagues de chaleur extrême dans le monde. Plusieurs pays ont subi plus de trois mois ...
Turbulent research landscape imperils US brain gain − and ultimately American prosperity
Many of the world’s best and brightest STEM researchers have long moved to the US. But now that brain gain is at risk of ...
Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it
One way to combat harmful contagion is to draw on an idea first used in the 1960s called pre-bunking. The idea is to train ...
Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed
Social media design influences human behavior, and the Big Tech platforms use it to boost profits – and their owners’ political agendas. Some smaller platforms are using design to support democracy.
Thailand’s judiciary is flexing its muscles, but away from PM’s plight, dozens of activists are at the mercy of capricious courts
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended from office. Meanwhile, leading activists languish behind bars on ...
From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income ...
Os homens estão raspando os cílios no TikTok. Saiba por que isso pode ser uma má ideia
O cabelo pode nos dizer muito sobre nossos valores sociais e culturais. Como diz o sociólogo canadense Anthony Synnott, ele ...
Are people at the South Pole upside down?
An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.