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Damaging electric currents in space affect Earth's equatorial region, not just the poles

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imageWhen the sun flares, space weather is on its way to Earth.NASA/SDO, CC BY

The Earth’s magnetic field – known as the “magnetosphere” – protects our atmosphere from the “solar wind.” That’s the constant stream of charged particles flowing outward from the sun. When the...

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What does it take to become an elementary school teacher? Not just passion

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imageAre teacher certification programs placing too many requirements on prospective teachers?Santa Catalina School, CC BY-NC

Often, people think that becoming an elementary school teacher can’t be that difficult. Many assume that primary school teachers don’t need to know too much beyond basic reading, writing and...

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From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

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imageEnglish caricaturist Richard Newton's 1798 cartoon depicts John Bull farting on the face of King George III. Library of Congress

Farting is a universal human experience, as routine as eating, breathing and sleeping. And it seems to be a cross-cultural and trans-historical fact that passing gas, at least in most social...

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Canary in the Gold King Mine: legacy of abandoned mines means more spills

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imageNot pretty: the Gold King Mine spill in Colorado on August 9.Reuters/EPA

You are gazing over the clear stream, thinking of fishing the crystal waters in the Rockies. The next morning, you are stunned to see an orange-yellow sludge covering the stream as far as you can see. Is this the Colorado Gold King Mine spill into...

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To reduce debt, give students more information to make wise college choice decisions

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imageHow can you make smart choices?Dollar image via www.shutterstock.com

Higher education has gotten a lot of attention during the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign. All three major candidates for the Democratic nomination – former New York Senator Hillary Clinton, former Maryland Governor Martin...

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Researchers carefully protect dangerous pathogens – but how secure are all their data?

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imageThe pathogens are secured, but are the data about them as well-protected?Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and many others: the most dangerous microorganisms are strictly regulated in the United States. The federal government oversees use of 65 so-called select agents with “the potential to pose a...

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Jimmy Carter in Cuba

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imageJimmy and Rosalynn Carter with Fidel Castro in 2011. Picture taken March 30 2011. Cubadebate/Reuters

Thirty-eight years ago, Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro agreed to open downgraded embassies called Interest Sections in Havana and Washington DC. Carter’s intent was to normalize relations between the two countries...

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Can jazz thrive in China?

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imageA drummer performs at the Beijing International Jazz Festival.Reuters

Earlier this summer, the famed New York City jazz club Blue Note announced that it would be opening a venue in the basement of the old American Embassy in Beijing.

In addition to the Beijing club, Blue Note expects to push ahead with new operations in...

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Menstruation is a global health problem – and we need to talk about it

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imageBreak the taboo.SuSanA Secretariat/Flickr, CC BY

Donald Trump did the girls and women living in developing world a great favor this week. He got menstruation – the taboo of all taboo words in polite society – onto the front page of the Sunday New York Times. That doesn’t happen every day. In fact,...

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