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How low-tech farming innovations can make African farmers climate-resilient

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imageCommunity education is a vital part of the Malawi Farmer to Farmer Agroecology project.Carmen Bezner Kerr, Author provided

Scientists, politicians and the Pope are not the only ones calling for action on climate change these days. Farmers are observing changes in rainfall, temperature and other patterns in weather that have spurred them into...

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Sustainability science is a new academic discipline. But is it sustainable?

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imageScience in isolation cannot provide solutions to world's complex problem.NOTICELJ’S PHOTOSTREAM, CC BY-SA

In 2007, the American Association for the Advancement of Science counted 32 sustainability science programs at colleges and universities in the United States. Today, there are 118.

Universities across the country are increasingly buying...

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Why the US has little to fear from Chinese leaders meeting with tech titans

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imageReports suggest President Xi will meet with US tech leaders this week. Will that overshadow his meeting with President Obama?Reuters

Later this week, President Xi Jinping will pay his first state visit to the US. Shortly before the visit, Chinese leaders will meet with US tech executives in a high-profile industry forum at the Microsoft campus in...

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Vaccines back in the headlines – here's what the experts say

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imageA woman receives an MMR injection.Rebecca Naden/Reuters

September 16th’s Republican debate put vaccines back in the headlines, when Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon, was asked to comment on Donald Trump’s statements linking vaccinations to autism. Carson said:

We have extremely well-documented proof that there...

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Here's the score for Obama's college scorecard: more minuses than pluses

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imageHow far can Obama's College Scorecard fix college affordability issues?Michael Fleshman, CC BY-NC-SA

This past Saturday, September 12, following an announcement in President Obama’s weekly address, the US Department of Education released its College Scorecard.

The president claimed additional information in the...

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Europe's refugee crisis: the last time round it was much, much worse

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imageExpelled from their home in 1946Otto Donath/German Federal Archives, CC BY-SA

As train after train of refugees arrives in Germany, swamping the railway stations and stretching the capacities of welfare organizations, a senior Berlin-based administrator protests against the strain the newcomers are placing on the...

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Scientists at work: space balloons and charged particles above the Arctic Circle

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imageLaunching a space balloon in Sweden.Alexa Halford, CC BY-ND

I research space weather. That’s how physicists describe how storms on the sun end up affecting us here on Earth. Most days I sit at a computer coding, attending telephone conference meetings with collaborators across the country and meeting with fellow space...

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The Conversation US is growing

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imageMorning meeting. Damian Thompson, Author provided

We have had good news this week in The Conversation US office. The Knight Foundation just announced that they are awarding us a grant to support the distribution of TCUS articles to local and regional newspapers across the United States (for more background have a look at my...

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  2. Dinnertime storytelling makes kids voracious readers
  3. It's time for doctors to hang up the white coats for good
  4. What's a politician's best tool? A razor
  5. Want more girls to be interested in computer science? Change some classroom stereotypes
  6. Native shrubs: a simple fix for drought-stricken crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
  7. Three women scholars grade Carly Fiorina's performance at the GOP debate
  8. Why the Fed is no longer center of the financial universe
  9. Thank an aging audience for Facebook's proposed dislike button
  10. Capitalism must evolve to solve the climate crisis
  11. When Greenpeace hires journalists, it's a double-edged sword
  12. The key to your health could be in your ZIP code
  13. Does bioenergy have a green energy future in the US?
  14. Why storytelling skills matter for African-American kids
  15. Myth of the 'Missing Link' in evolution does science no favors
  16. Malaysians worldwide demand prime minister's resignation
  17. The tale of Uber and a 19th century French economist
  18. Why Pope Francis' US visit is making the GOP squirm
  19. Can we tie unisex fashion trends to gender equality?
  20. Explainer: why stocks fall when the Fed considers raising interest rates
  21. The 2015 Sierra Nevada snowpack is a 500-year record low
  22. Why more grandparents are raising their grandchildren
  23. Can Iran's rulers still use enemies abroad to rally nation?
  24. If Goldwater can win the GOP nomination, why not Trump?
  25. How advertising research explains Donald Trump's profound appeal
  26. Stem cells could help mend a broken heart, but they've got to mature
  27. Local fishing rights + marine reserves: a better approach to small-scale fisheries recovery
  28. Should the Fed raise rates? Wrong question – here's the right one
  29. It's true. It matters when professors know their students' names
  30. If we burned all fossil fuels, would any of Antartica's ice survive?
  31. Our prosperity is in peril unless we shift from a wasteful world to a 'circular economy'
  32. Fourteen years after 9/11, Obama still struggles to close Guantanamo Bay
  33. Inside academia: black professors are expected to 'entertain' while presenting
  34. Why aren't under-65s diagnosed with cancer until the disease is advanced?
  35. In today's NFL, forget Super Bowl dreams – it's all about fantasy
  36. El Niño – what it will bring this year and how it could change with global warming
  37. Real crisis in psychology isn't that studies don't replicate, but that we usually don't even try
  38. Explainer: is it really OK to eat food that's fallen on the floor?
  39. Oliver Sacks, the brain and God
  40. More Syrian refugees: good for national security
  41. From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump in four short decades
  42. Why dress and appearance matter at black colleges
  43. Stephen Colbert's Late Show feasts on political fare
  44. The Common Core is today's New Math – which is actually a good thing
  45. When it comes to academic quality, Europeans show the way
  46. To see why attitudes on having children have changed, look at...New Yorker cartoons?
  47. The other immigrants: how the super-rich skirt quotas and closed borders
  48. Emails won’t decide Clinton’s fate in 2016
  49. New models to predict recidivism could provide better way to deter repeat crime
  50. Are we overscheduling our kids from the moment they're born? The real 'labor' economics