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Facing a groundswell of support for legal abortion, Argentina's Catholic Church moderates its tone

  • Written by Verónica Giménez Béliveau, Religion and Society Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argnetina's pro-choice movement, which began in 2003, hopes that the Senate will vote in favor of legalizing abortion on Aug. 8, 2018.

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Abortion is completely legal only in three places in Latin America: Cuba legalized the practice in 1965, followed by Mexico City in 2007 and Uruguay in 2012.

Argentina, like the majority of...

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Violencia crónica de México afecta la salud mental, con consecuencias fatales: más suicidios

  • Written by Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego

México ha sufrido una de las tasas más altas de homicidios del mundo por más de una década, como consecuencia de la agresiva batalla del gobierno de 12 años contra los traficantes de drogas y otros grupos delictivos.

Casi 30.000 mexicanos fueron asesinados en el 2017 y 2018 podría superarlo. De acuerdo con...

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Police kill about 3 men per day in the US, according to new study

  • Written by Frank Edwards, Postdoctoral Associate, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University
There are multiple efforts to count police homicides in the U.S.a katz/shutterstock

Police in the U.S. kill on average more than 1,000 men per year, or about three men per day. According to our estimates, police are responsible for about 8 percent of all adult male homicide deaths in the U.S. each year.

These estimates come from our study,...

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Brains keep temporary molecular records before making a lasting memory

  • Written by Kelsey Tyssowski, Graduate Student in Biomedical Science, Harvard University
Like the day's newspaper, the brain has a temporary way to keep track of events.TonTonic/Shutterstock.com

The first dance at my wedding lasted exactly four minutes and 52 seconds, but I’ll probably remember it for decades. Neuroscientists still don’t entirely understand this: How was my brain able to translate this less-than-five-minute...

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What makes a good friend?

  • Written by Alexis Elder, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth
How should you choose your friends?Liderina/ Shutterstock.com

Good friendships seem worth celebrating. But for many of us, tensions can appear from time to time between being a good friend and doing “the right thing.” When faced with, for example, a situation where it’s tempting to lie to cover for a friend, it can seem as though...

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Why stretching is (still) important for weight loss and exercise

  • Written by David Prologo, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University
Many athletes stretch before and after exercise, but they may not be gaining benefits from doing so.ESB Basic/shutterstock.com

There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the value – or lack thereof – of muscle stretching to accelerate recovery after exercise. “Stretching clears out your lactic acid,” and other similar...

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Why adjusting capital gains for inflation makes economic sense

  • Written by Dale O. Cloninger, Professor Emeritus, Economics & Finance, University of Houston-Clear Lake

The Trump administration is considering a significant change to the way capital gains on investments like stocks, businesses and real estate are calculated.

The administration wants to allow investors to use inflation when determining the gain they get when they sell an asset, which would usually mean reducing the profit – as reported to the...

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Brazilian evangelicals, swinging hard to the right, could put a Trump-like populist in the presidency

  • Written by Peter David Arnould Wood, Postdoctoral Fellow in Demography, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Even as the overall population of Christians in the United States declines, evangelicals have become an energetic right-wing voting base, helping President Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016.

In Brazil, where Pentecostal and other charismatic Christian churches are rapidly gaining members, evangelical voters are only beginning to flex their...

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How Trump's trade war affects working-class Americans

  • Written by Jeffrey Kucik, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona

President Donald Trump justifies tariffs on imports by arguing that “unfair trade policies” have harmed American workers. This has led to a trade war in which the U.S. and China have placed tit-for-tat tariffs on each other’s products.

Most recently, China said it’s ready to slap tariffs on US$60 billion in U.S. imports if...

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  1. #MeToo movement finds an unlikely champion in Wall Street with the new ‘Weinstein clause’
  2. Mapping Brazil's political polarization online
  3. Can you be Christian and support the death penalty?
  4. What colleges must do to promote mental health for graduate students
  5. Ancient arts are inspiring modern electronics
  6. Why 'Nigerian Prince' scams continue to dupe us
  7. It's harder than you might expect for charities to give back tainted money
  8. Here's what we know about CRISPR safety – and reports of 'genome vandalism'
  9. Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? Trial highlights the difficulty of proving a link
  10. Trump administration and California are on collision course over vehicle emissions rules
  11. ¿Por qué duelen tanto las cortadas con papel?
  12. Lawyers defending immigrant children in detention are relying on a court case from the 80s
  13. Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade? And if it does, what happens to abortion rights?
  14. Rising suicides in Mexico expose the mental health toll of living with extreme, chronic violence
  15. Genetic testing: Should I get tested for Alzheimer's risk?
  16. What is a blockchain token?
  17. A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires
  18. No sufra desvelos: existen muchas soluciones para dormir mejor
  19. Print-your-own gun debate ignores how the US government long provided and regulated firearms
  20. From gun kits to 3D printable guns, a short history of rogue gun makers
  21. Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers' role in evolution
  22. Alan Alda living with Parkinson's – a neurologist explains treatment advances
  23. New sanctions on Russia and Iran are unlikely to work. Here's why
  24. The infantilization of Western culture
  25. Overhydrating presents health hazards for young football players
  26. The demise of US nuclear power in 4 charts
  27. Parts of the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia fault are more seismically active than others – new imaging data suggests why
  28. Is Trump profiting from his office in violation of the Constitution? Judge allows emoluments case to move ahead
  29. What the early church thought about God's gender
  30. Why I use Harry Potter to teach a college course on child development
  31. Citizenship through the eyes of those who have lost the right to vote
  32. Niños centroamericanos siguen migrando a EEUU porque huyen de la muerte
  33. Iran and America: A forgotten friendship
  34. A new look at racial disparities in police use of deadly force
  35. The lifesaving power of gratitude (or, why you should write that thank you note)
  36. American farmers want trade partners not handouts – an agricultural economist explains
  37. More Republicans in the news? That's not media bias
  38. Designing a 'solar tarp,' a foldable, packable way to generate power from the sun
  39. What Richard Dawkins doesn't get about the Muslim call to prayer
  40. For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of 'halal' 
  41. A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more expensive to control
  42. ¿Para qué sirven las fronteras?
  43. Imran Khan hopes to transform Pakistan but he'll have far less power than past leaders
  44. Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story
  45. Could your gut microbes hinder your cancer treatment? A new first-in-human trial investigates
  46. Why fewer kids work the kind of summer jobs that their parents used to have
  47. I’m an economist riding a bike across America, defying what the data says about cycling's safety
  48. Arrested development: Can we improve cardiac arrest survival in hospitals?
  49. What are madrasa schools and what skills do they impart?
  50. Congress could declaw restrictions on politicking from the pulpit — over the objections of many churches