The world’s first glow-in-the-dark frog found in Argentina
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A male Hypsiboas punctatus frog in daylight. Erfil/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Scientists in Argentina have…
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March 2017
Latin American presidents love Twitter – and that’s not a good sign
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Leer en español. The Conversation Global’s series, Politics in the Age of Social Media,…
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Living on the edge: are America’s deportation laws traumatising immigrants?
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Leer en español. On February 21 2017, a man committed suicide in Mexico. The…
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How did we get here? Four essential reads on the status of health care in America
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House Speaker Paul Ryan at a March 7, 2017 unveiling of the new health…
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How hepatitis became a hidden epidemic in Africa
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Health centre in Sainte Dominique, Dakar, Senegal. Jean-Jacques Lemasson/IRD, CC BY-SA The five strains…
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A scientists’ march on Washington is a bad idea – here’s why
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The April 22 March for Science, like the Women’s March in January 2017, will…
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Fly me to the Moon? Why the world should be wary of Elon Musk’s space race
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Fe Ilya/Flickr, CC BY-SA Want to fly to the moon? Well, now you won’t…
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From travel bans to alternative facts: the dangerous descent into irrationality
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Donald Trump has signed a new executive order preventing citizens of six Muslim-majority countries…