Title IX was supposed to protect students from sexual assault on campus. But with federal enforcement shrinking, those protections are slipping away.
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Title IX’s effectiveness in addressing campus sexual assault is at risk βˆ’ a law professor explains why
Recent changes to the federal law that bans sexual discrimination in education could make life tougher for students who experience sexual assault o...
Biosphere 2, once known for its 1990s sealed human experiment, is now a testbed for science. Researchers are studying how microbes and plants colonize barren rock, work that could guide ecosystem restoration on Earth and, like in β€œThe Martian,” help make growing food on Mars possible.
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Biosphere 2’s latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable
Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in barren environments.