Undark
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[:es]In Tackling Gender Inequality in STEM, Considerations of Culture[:]
For the numerous organizations dedicated to addressing the problem of women’s underrepresentation in science, solutions are far from clear.
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[:es]Should Scientists Advocate on the Issue of Climate Change?[:]
Views differ on what, exactly, is the best way for scientists to advocate for societal action against climate change.
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[:es]Scientists Probe an Enduring Question: Can Language Shape Perception?[:]
The idea that language shapes our ability to think fell out of favor in the 1960s, but new tools have some researchers revisiting the concept.
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[:es]Return of the ’Ologies: Natural History Makes a Comeback on Campus[:]
They aren’t ‘sexy, high-tech science,’ but fields like entomology and ornithology are gaining popularity at places like Harvard and Berkeley.
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[:eu]Teaching Machines to Recognize (and Filter) Humanity’s Dark Side[:]
Social media giants are hoping artificial intelligence and deep machine learning can help block shared gore and violence. They have a long way to go.
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[:eu]The Emptiness of the All-Male Panel[:]
There is a word for on-stage discussions populated exclusively by men: They’re called “manels,” and they’ve become far too familiar.
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[:eu]Creature Comforts[:]
When the objective eye of science is trained on the question of animal subjectivity, the evidence is always indirect and inevitably in dispute.
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[:eu]You’re Dead? No Problem[:]
True believers are having their bodies preserved in hopes that future technology will allow them to live again. A new book asks where it will all end.
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[:eu]Old Friends: The Promise of Parasitic Worms[:]
Can parasitic worms, or helminths, help to address autoimmune disorders? Scientists (and self-experimenters like me) are trying to find out.