Colorado isn’t known for its wine – but vineyards are a $3.9 billion wine industry there. Winemakers there face a tiny but formidable foe: grape phylloxera. This aphid-like pest is forcing vineyards to rethink how they grow grapes.
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How a devastating grape pest is reshaping vineyards across Colorado’s Western Slope
Phylloxera is an aphidlike pest that kills grapevines.
Changes to federal financial aid could hit part-time and grad students especially hard. New limits on borrowing and Pell Grant eligibility may push some toward lower-cost programs or full-time enrollment, a higher education researcher has details. https://buff.ly/blx9EGz
NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station in 2030. An aerospace engineer with more than 30 years in the spaceflight community explains why saying goodbye to the ISS will be especially hard. https://buff.ly/mmhTbjX
The First Amendment protects even the most controversial speech. https://buff.ly/saYgUe1
Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
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Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates mor...
Trump’s FBI purge and pursuit of “enemies” recall the bureau’s ugliest era — when Hoover used it to spy, smear and silence dissent.
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Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
Donald Trump has a partisan ally running the FBI. He’s urged retribution against his perceived enemies. Will today’s FBI repeat the vast, uncon...
Some “new” drugs aren’t really new at all — just small tweaks that let pharma companies extend patents and hike prices. Making clinical trial data public can help stop the practice and keep real innovation moving forward.
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Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation
By extending their monopoly on a drug, companies prevent generics and other competitors from driving down prices. But increasing transparency can h...
Mindfulness won’t melt pounds, but it can help you stay on track with exercise, diet and sleep goals. Just 10 minutes a day can make healthy habits stick.
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Mindfulness won’t burn calories, but it might help you stick with your health goals
A growing body of research suggests that mindfulness has applications well beyond mental health, and that people who meditate are more likely to fu...
A child in Los Angeles has died from SSPE, a rare but fatal brain disorder that can appear years after measles infection. The case underscores the deadly risks of falling vaccination rates.
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Child dies from complications of measles years after infection – SSPE explained
Why falling vaccination rates put vulnerable children at risk.
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Trump’s use of federal troops in U.S. cities echoes tactics that helped unravel democracies in Chile and Argentina in the 1970s. “Americans ignore the partisan use of the armed forces at their peril… To this day, [Argentina and Chile’s] armed forces remain tainted by the weight of their misrule and repression some 50 years ago. This is not a path that other democracies can afford to take.” #history [@histodons](
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