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News about the success of a new Ebola vaccine may be too good to be true

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imageA health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Monrovia, February 2 2015. James Giahyue/Reuters

Ebola is on the run: the number of cases dipped below 10 a week recently, and a few days ago investigators announced in the prestigious journal The Lancet that a new Ebola vaccine was “100%...

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Iran’s frozen funds: how much is really there and how will they be used?

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imageNot all of Iran's frozen foreign assets are likely to thaw anytime soon.Frozen dollar via www.shutterstock.com

The value and planned release of Iran’s frozen foreign assets have become hot political topics in both Tehran and Western capitals.

Yet few observers, it seems, have a clear idea how much is likely to be...

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From Smokey Bear to climate change: the future of wildland fire management

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imageOne more California wildfire from last year: getting more dangerous and more expensive.usfsregion5/flickr, CC BY-SA

Current conditions in the West demonstrate that our US fire management system is struggling and approaching a state of crisis. Spending on fighting fires has climbed dramatically since the 1990s. And there is...

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Why the silence of moderate conservatives is dangerous for race relations

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imageLetter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963 Jason C Tillmann, CC BY-SA

The past two years of racial turmoil have removed any and all doubt about the continuing significance of race in the United States.

Both whites and blacks have exhibited increasingly negative views on race relations since 2011. A...

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Scientists at work: cracking sea lions' high-thrust, low-wake swimming technique

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imageObserving the foreflipper clap.Megan Leftwich, CC BY

The California sea lion has a unique way of moving through the ocean. This highly maneuverable aquatic mammal produces thrust primarily with its foreflippers – the ones it has where you have hands. Despite being fast, efficient and agile, this sea lion swimming...

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What if it happened again? What we need to do to prepare for a nuclear event

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imageAtomic cloud over Hiroshima.By 509th Operations Group via Wikimedia Commons

As we observe the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it may seem like the threat from nuclear weapons has receded. But it hasn’t; the threat is actually increasing steadily. This is difficult to face for many people,...

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There's no code of ethics to govern digital forensics – and we need one

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imageHow to deal with all that digital evidence?West Midlands Police, CC BY-SA

Let me begin with a disclaimer: I am neither a digital forensics practitioner nor do I play one on television.

I am, however, a professor in, and former chair of, an academic department at a research university that houses a graduate program in...

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How Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter taught us not to look away

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imageKen Kendricks Jr puts his hands together in prayer at a makeshift memorial to Michael Brown on August 22 2014. Adrees Latif/REUTERS

One year ago, on August 9 2014, then-police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Wilson estimated during the grand jury hearings that the entire incident...

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How can we support kids in learning more than one language?

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imageThose who know more than one language have a competitive edge.The LEAF Project, CC BY-SA

There is little doubt that knowing more than one language carries tremendous advantages.

Young bilinguals are known to be flexible thinkers and better problem solvers. They have a competitive edge in the labor market, with those fluent...

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Rather than make energy more expensive, it's time to invest in the technologies of tomorrow

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imageThe EPA Clean Power Plan imposes limits on power plants' carbon emissions. ataferner/flickr, CC BY-NC

Democrats (myself included) enjoy ridiculing Republicans who deny the scientific consensus behind climate change. But we then deny the inconvenient truth behind our own preferred climate policies: they will have regressive...

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