Criminalizing and prosecuting torture could deter practices such as solitary confinement in detention
(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned this article mentions violence towards and death of First Nations people.)
(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned this article mentions violence towards and death of First Nations people.)
Social Sciences
Aug 1, 2023
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This summer, as wildfire smoke blankets large swaths of North America and heat-stoked summer haze reaches its seasonal peak, NASA and its partners are deploying several new tools to observe air quality and pollution from ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2023
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On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 26, 2023
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A Biden administration program designed to address environmental inequalities, including reducing the air quality gap between white communities and communities of color, may not succeed. That's due, in part, to the administration's ...
Environment
Jul 26, 2023
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Scientists have analyzed more than 650 dam removal projects over 55 years in the United States totaling $1.52 billion inflation-adjusted dollars to develop a tool to better estimate the cost of future dam removals.
Ecology
Jul 25, 2023
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The U.S. Forest Service's own prescribed burn started a sprawling 2022 wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico, the agency acknowledged Monday in a report published after a lengthy investigation.
Environment
Jul 25, 2023
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As New South Wales works hard to attract new teachers, and to keep them in the profession. Research by UNSW Sydney's Rebecca Collie into teacher well-being offers some solutions.
Education
Jul 24, 2023
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In March 2020, an experiment in science philanthropy was hatched in the span of a five-minute call.
Other
Jul 18, 2023
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The Murray Darling Basin Plan is an historic deal between state and federal governments to save Australia's most important river system. The A$13 billion plan, inked over a decade ago, was supposed to rein in the water extracted ...
Environment
Jul 18, 2023
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More than two thirds of Australians are concerned about the long -term threat of climate change on our way of life, significantly higher than similar fears a two years ago and continuing an upward trend over the past decade, ...
Environment
Jul 17, 2023
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