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Will the end of breeding orcas at SeaWorld change much for animals in captivity?

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imageNo more breeding, but still on exhibit.Business Navigatoren, CC BY-SA

When SeaWorld announced it would stop breeding orcas and begin to phase out “theatrical performances” using the animals, the news appeared to mark a significant change in ideas about animals and captivity.

Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United...

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Global warming is pushing wine harvests earlier – but not necessarily for the better

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imageDroughts have traditionally yielded good vintages in France, but changing conditions are forcing wine growers to adapt.lewismd13/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Wine grapes are one of the most valuable horticultural crops in the world, a globally important industry with commercial vineyards on six continents and all 50 U.S. states. Like many crops, these...

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What we've learned from the deadly Oso, Washington landslide two years on

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imageBefore and after the Oso landslide in 2014.Joseph Wartman, CC BY-ND

On March 22, 2014, a hillside above Oso, Washington collapsed, unleashing a torrent of mud and debris that buried the community of Steelhead Haven. Forty-three people lost their lives, making it one of the single deadliest landslide disasters in U.S. history.

Over the past two...

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How the Grand Canyon changed our ideas of natural beauty

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imageSunrise on Angel's Window, North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park. National Park Service/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Few sights are as instantly recognizable, and few sites speak more fully to American nationalism. Standing on the South Rim in 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it “one of the great sights every American should see.”

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A nation at risk -- how gifted, low-income kids are left behind

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imageWhat makes gifted kids from advantaged families get ahead?David Woo, CC BY-ND

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, which documented widespread academic underachievement at every level, concluding:

For the first time in the history of our country, the...

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In TV's shifting landscape, advertisers scramble to adapt

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A television commercial is a 15- or 30-second interruption of a program – or so most of us born before 2000 assume.

However, a recent story arc on the popular Fox program “Empire” involved a character making a commercial for Pepsi – a commercial that actually appeared during the episode. Popular Vine users have appeared in...

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Radiation combined with immune-stimulating drugs could pack a powerful punch against cancer cells

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In his final State of the Union address, President Obama tasked Vice President Joe Biden with leading a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative. The hope is that this will put America on course to be “the country that cures cancer once and for all.” Listed among the cutting-edge research areas of the initiative is a class of treatments...

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What two legal scholars learned from studying 70 years of Supreme Court confirmation hearings

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Joe Biden called them a “kabuki dance.” Elena Kagan called them a “vapid and hollow charade.”

So Supreme Court confirmation hearings are worthless, right?

Wrong.

Our research moves beyond the conventional wisdom espoused by Biden, Kagan and others, and presents a strong case for an alternative view of the hearings. Examining...

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Fighting superbugs with nanotechnology and light

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imageA quantum dot: A high-resolution transmission electron micrograph of cadmium telluride nanoparticles. (The scale bar in the lower right is 2 nanometers long, or two millionths of a millimeter.)Nagpal Group, University of Colorado, CC BY-ND

A new tool is emerging in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacterial disease. Beyond the global efforts...

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As Obama makes historic visit, is Cuba ready for change?

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President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years as he set off on a three-day trip to the island nation on Sunday, the latest step in a thaw in relations that began in December 2014.

Ahead of the trip, the administration issued its fifth set of measures relaxing regulations that restrict U.S. banking,...

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