Despite his 20 percent approval rate, President Nicolas Maduro is almost assured a win in Venezuela’s May 20 election. The opposition says the vote is a “farce.”
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Marco Aponte-Moreno, St Mary's College of California
The Venezuelan opposition is asking people not to vote in the country's May 20 election, which they call a 'farce.' President Maduro regime has jailed or blacklisted most of his competitors.
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Politics + Society
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Isaac Nahon-Serfaty, University of Ottawa
As Venezuela's May 20 election approaches, scholars and students at the country's autonomous universities continue the fight for knowledge and freedom.
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Brian Tomaszewski, Rochester Institute of Technology
Maps can be an invaluable tool in a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis. A pilot project trained Syrian refugees at a Jordan camp to create their own.
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Greg Barton, Deakin University
The world cheered the defeat of IS in the Middle East, but the insurgency is far from over.
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Arts + Culture
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Matthew Alford, University of Bath; Patrycja Rozbicka, Aston University
The music industry, like all other media, can be censored to some extent. So how does this change its output?
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Environment + Energy
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James Watson, The University of Queensland; James Allan, The University of Queensland; Kendall Jones, The University of Queensland; Pablo Negret, The University of Queensland; Richard Fuller, The University of Queensland; Sean Maxwell, The University of Queensland
The world's national parks cover an area bigger than South America. But a new survey finds that one-third of this area is subject to pressure from human developments, potentially putting wildlife at risk.
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Jeremiah Ogonda Asaka, Middle Tennessee State University
Kenya's death penalty proposal is not the quick fix solution to curb wildlife poaching.
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Health + Medicine
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Ahoua Constant, Nangui Abrogoua University
The medicinal plants that chimpanzees feed on in the wild could hold the key in dealing with common diseases.
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Science + Technology
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James Geach, University of Hertfordshire
Astronomers have indirectly spotted some of the first stars in the universe by making their most distant detection of oxygen in a galaxy that existed just 500m years after the Big Bang.
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