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We are entering a new era of migration – and not just for people

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imageMigrants from the Middle East bound for Europe earlier this month. Fotis Piegas G/Reuters

The world is watching as refugees flood into a Europe unprepared for the new arrivals. Conflict and social unrest due in part to climate stress – including induced food shortages and social conflict – have prompted migrants to search for new homes...

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Why disciplining kids can be so tricky for parents and teachers

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imageWhen does disciplining kids work?Asim Bharwani, CC BY-NC-ND

Disciplining works if it is not over the top and children understand the point of it.

Highlights magazine’s annual State of Kids survey found that a majority of children appreciated being disciplined and believed that it helped them behave better.

What children disagreed with were the...

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US losing its dominance in global higher education market

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imageGrowing numbers of US students are going abroad to study.British Council Russia, CC BY-NC-SA

The Conversation’s international teams are collaborating on a series of articles about the Globalisation of Higher Education, examining how universities are changing in an increasingly globalised world. This is the third article in the series. Read...

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Swinging between extremes in giving scientific credit where credit is due

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imageNobels go to only three scientists max, while some papers have as many authors as members of this audience.© Nobel Media AB, Alexander Mahmoud

imageChina Daily’s front page on the morning of Tu Youyou’s Nobel win.

The headline on the first page of China Daily on October 6 was striking: China wins first Nobel prize in medicine. Actually, D...

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Should movie studios be worried about Netflix's first feature film?

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imageIdris Elba stars in Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation.Netflix

Summer is always important for the movie business, and this past one was the second-biggest ever for ticket sales.

Studios succeeded by doing what they do best: recombinant franchise films featuring superheroes and beasts. Jurassic World helped Universal dominate box office totals,...

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Craft chocolate shakes up industry as its sweet season begins

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imageChocolate beans are everywhere these days.Reuters

Earlier this month, thousands of eager lovers streamed through the doors of the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle, on the stunning waterfront of Puget Sound. Their love had one all-consuming object: chocolate.

The Northwest Chocolate Festival, the country’s leading consumer...

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  3. Building a case, over time, for adding sustainability to nutritional guidelines
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  5. The CNN Democratic debate will be another circus
  6. Men and women biased about studies of STEM gender bias – in opposite directions
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  11. Are some kids really smarter just because they know more words?
  12. Pathogen-carrying invasive fish from China threatens US waterways
  13. Why some religious Americans see same-sex marriage as a threat
  14. Svetlana Alexievich captured the psyche – and trauma – of a Soviet people and nation
  15. TPP's new battle lines may pose threat to world's biggest trade deal
  16. Could the peace deal in Colombia be a model for other conflicts?
  17. Are assigned readings from women professors different?
  18. As Syrian refugee crisis spreads to Europe, lessons from Turkey
  19. Why only now – after 51 years – war is ending in Colombia
  20. What happens to men who stay abstinent until marriage?
  21. Denis Mukwege deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Congo
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  24. Japan may have tricky time passing TPP after making concessions on rice, beef
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  27. Arne Duncan's legacy: growing influence of a network of private actors on public education
  28. They won a Nobel for what? Why good science communication counts
  29. Is the Kunduz hospital strike a war crime? Don't jump to conclusions
  30. Why wearing sagging pants on a college campus becomes a criminal offense
  31. The new battleground for same-sex couples is equal rights for their kids
  32. The psychological origins of procrastination – and how we can stop putting things off
  33. Australia’s war on feral cats: shaky science, missing ethics
  34. We may have cinched TPP, but is US trade a lost cause?
  35. How neutrinos, which barely exist, just ran off with another Nobel Prize
  36. The secret Maoist Chinese operation that conquered malaria – and won a Nobel
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  40. Why new US ozone standards aren't enough to protect health and the environment
  41. Combating 'neglected' diseases using nature's apothecary
  42. Is the 2015 Nobel Prize a turning point for traditional Chinese medicine?
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