The Gender Wage Gap Tipping Point

The gender wage gap has been in existence at least since the U.S. Civil War era, when an 1869 letter to The New York Times exposed unfair treatment of women working in government and argued that “equal work should command equal pay without regard to the sex of the laborer.” Fast forward 156 years and women still only earn 83 cents…

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Greenland sled dog DNA is a window into the Arctic’s archaeological past

A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic analysis, published July 10 in Science, suggests that humans (and their sled dogs) arrived in the region roughly 1,000 years ago — centuries earlier than previously thought. The results weave new threads into the story of humanity’s 20,000-year-long…

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