8 Colorado children died in domestic violence incidents in 2024, most amid active custody disputes. Preventing deaths would start with better data collection.
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Why protecting Colorado children from dying of domestic violence is such a hard problem
Lethal domestic violence is persistent, despite a statewide decline in overall homicides.
Humans are hardwired to sing, and it's even good for you! It can lower stress, boost immunity and help people with Parkinson’s disease move better. Keep singing! (Even if it's in the shower or where nobody can hear you)
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We are hardwired to sing − and it’s good for us, too
Modern science is increasingly validating what many traditions have long held: Singing and chanting can have profound health benefits.
Guinea-Bissau’s military takeover highlights the nation’s sorry history of coups and a deepening crisis across the region. A researcher who has compiled a dataset of coup types explains:
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Guinea-Bissau’s military takeover highlights the nation’s sorry history of coups and a deepening crisis across the region
The takeover was the 11th successful coup d
Denver recorded its latest first-snow date on record this year, more than a month past normal. A Colorado hydrologist explains what's behind the slow western snow season and the dangers to the West’s water supply.
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Winter storms blanket the East, while the US West is wondering: Where’s the snow?
Here’s what snow forecasters are watching, and why skiers and other snow lovers shouldn’t lose hope.
Mayor-elect Mamdani's plan to raise taxes on New York City's wealthy sparked lots of rich people saying they’ll move away and predictions of mass exodus. But a sociology researcher found that tax increases alone rarely drive migration.
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New York’s wealthy warn of a tax exodus after Mamdani’s win – but the data says otherwise
Research on millionaire migration reveals that social and professional ties matter far more than marginal tax rates.
Iran's president is reviving plans to move the capital amid a severe water crisis. But Iranian water policy experts say relocating government offices won't solve the core problem: decades of treating finite water resources as unlimited.
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Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps...
A battery storage facility burned for two days in January, depositing an estimated 25 metric tons of toxic metals across nearby wetlands in Monterey Bay, California. Officials said air quality was safe, but they missed the toxic metal fallout raining down on wetlands.
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When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over...
Head pain is complex, and researchers are still uncovering its causes and treatments. A neurologist explains the science of headaches and migraines — and how to manage them.
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Why do people get headaches and migraines? A child neurologist explains the science of head pain and how to treat it
Many different types of stress can trigger a headache. Luckily, there are treatments that can help stop your head from pounding.
The U.S. gets a D+ for preterm birth rates — 10.4% of babies were born premature in 2024. Among the worst places to be pregnant: Texas: 10 of the 46 failing cities are in Texas, where almost half of all counties lack maternity care providers and birthing facilities.
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Texas cities have some of the highest preterm birth rates in the US, highlighting maternal health crisis nationwide
Rates of preterm births, maternal deaths and other adverse birth outcomes are abysmal across the US, but there are clear strategies that could help...
After World War II, Stalin launched a wave of state-sponsored antisemitism disguised as an "anti-cosmopolitan" campaign. A historian explains why Soviet leaders chose to attack the very group that the Nazis tried to annihilate.
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Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’
Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous examples of persecu...