Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness

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National Institutes of Health indirect costs, which are under the knife, go toward managing laboratories and facilities. Fei Yang/Moment via Getty Images America has already lost its global competitive edge in science, and...

The biggest threat in the Ontario election isn’t Donald Trump, it’s voter disengagement

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Premier Doug Ford has justified his early election call on the need to respond to United States President Donald Trumps threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports. While the threat of tariffs on all Canadian...

Green skills to help nature repair itself are scarce: what we’re doing to train more experts in South Africa and Senegal

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Africas population is growing. This means more landscape change and development of supporting infrastructure. Ecosystems are under pressure, made worse by natural disasters induced by climate change. In response,...

Goma is threatened by conflict and a volcano: we’ve created a handbook to help hotspots like these

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The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was taken over by the M23 rebel group in January 2025. This was a tragic escalation of a decades-long conflict thats led to mass displacement and deaths. Goma, a...

Deeply religious African countries (surprisingly) provide little state support to religion – unlike countries in Europe

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In most of the world, countries with religious populations are more likely to have governments that support religion through laws and policies. These laws might include religious education, funding for religious...

Murder of gay South African imam Muhsin Hendricks reignites queer Muslim debate

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Dubbed the worlds first openly gay Imam, South African religious leader Muhsin Hendricks was gunned down on 15 February 2025 in an attack that many believe was targeted. Tributes have poured in across the world, but so...

A new theory explains how water first arrived on Earth

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How did Earth become a blue planet? NASA, CC BY When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from extraterrestrial sources. Studies of ancient...