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Their vision is to, by 2020 to attain national research prominence, thereby enhancing educational achievement, global engagement, diversity, and the vitality and well-being of the people of West Virginia.

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Um fungo de cigarra zumbi, Massospora cicadina, consumiu a extremidade traseira dessa cigarra periódica, substituindo-a por um “tampão” de esporos calcários. Matt Kasson

Os fungos podem realmente causar um apocalipse zumbi?

Nem todos os fungos são assustadores e, mesmo os mais alarmantes, não vão te transformar em um morto-vivo. O mais próximo que você pode chegar de um fungo zumbificador é assistindo a filmes de terror ou jogando videogame
Many offices make a point to celebrate diversity, but what does that look like when it comes to faith? FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

Religion in the workplace is tricky – but employers and employees both lose when it becomes a total taboo

Workers from minority religious traditions in the US tend to be more affected by restrictions about bringing up faith at the office.
A zombie cicada fungus, Massospora cicadina, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a ‘plug’ of chalky spores. Matt Kasson

Could fungi actually cause a zombie apocalypse?

Be very afraid – if you’re an insect.
A man waits to enter the Safeworks supervised consumption site at the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre in Calgary, Alta., in August 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Drop in drug poisoning deaths does not necessarily indicate Alberta Recovery Model is working

Alberta’s controversial approach to the opioid crisis rejects harm reduction, including supervised consumption sites. Despite recent UCP claims that the program is working, more evidence is needed.
Fewer people are affiliated with religion in the United States, but that hardly means that they’re all atheists. Anthony Bradshaw/Photographer's Choice RF via Getty Images

The number of religious ‘nones’ has soared, but not the number of atheists – and as social scientists, we wanted to know why

Social factors, from wealth to politics, may shape whether people who do not believe in God identify as an atheist.
Substance use during pregnancy can lead to a broad array of harmful effects. Liudmila Chernetska/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Hundreds of thousands of US infants every year pay the consequences of prenatal exposure to drugs, a growing crisis particularly in rural America

Many people wrongly assume that cannabis use during pregnancy is safe. Research is increasingly documenting a host of serious health harms from prenatal exposure to cannabis and other substances.
We can be unduly hard on ourselves as we grapple with the implications of declining an invitation. Yifei Fang/Moment via Getty Images

Are our fears of saying ‘no’ overblown?

Nearly 80% of people have accepted invitations to events they didn’t want to attend.

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