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Michael GurvenNew research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: What role do these bacteria play in human health? -
Diaa Hadid/NPRThe Lahore High Court is a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture and its main square is a pleasant spot shaded by banyan trees.
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It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional Asian recipe to make their own. They call it a "labor of love." -
A thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point. We explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize. -
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. -
Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year.
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Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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The Trump administration has been hostile to federal spending on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. But there's bipartisan support for a multiuse trail that would connect Ohio and West Virginia. -
Northern Nevada has a reliably red congressional seat, represented by a Republican since it was drawn in the early 1980s. A complicated candidate and a potential blue wave this year could change that. -
The federal Civil Rights Data Collection, for the first time in decades, tells us about the teacher workforce and reminds us racial disparities are still stark in American public schools. -
The Australian singer-songwriter's last album earned him his first Grammy nominations, a global tour with Charli xcx and even an SNL parody. His new release, She's the Best, excavates a deeper layer of his desires. -
It's not just mortgages being at their highest level in almost three years — but the cost of loans for cars and higher education are among the borrowing costs affected, too.
