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America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing – even though the law says the government is supposed to preserve it

By Keith Kintigh, The Conversation

About 30,000 legally mandated archaeological investigations are conducted each year in the U.S. These projects are usually documented only in so-called “gray literature” reports that, in most cases, are not readily accessible, even to professional archaeologists.

Why radiation protection experts are concerned over EPA proposal

By Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, The Conversation

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency solicited the advice of a controversial toxicologist, Edward Calabrese, to consider changes to how it regulates radiation.

How winning Mega Millions could lead to bankruptcy

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

Looking at lottery winners approximately 10 years after winning showed they saved just 16 cents of every dollar won.

Could an artificial intelligence be considered a person under the law?

By Roman V. Yampolskiy, The Conversation

A new argument has laid a path for artificial intelligence systems to be recognized as people without any legislation, court rulings or other revisions to existing law.

As ice recedes, the Arctic isn’t prepared for more shipping traffic

By Edward Struzik, The Conversation

Only 10 per cent of the Arctic Ocean in Canada, and less than two per cent of the Arctic Ocean in the United States, is charted.

Injecting wastewater underground can cause earthquakes up to 10 kilometers away

By Emily Brodsky, The Conversation

Earthquakes in the central and eastern United States have increased dramatically in the last decade as a result of human activities.

What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death

By Jessica Pierce, The Conversation

Most humans fail to entertain the possibility that animals might care about the death of those they love.

This ancient teenager is the first known person with parents of two different species

By Michelle Langley, The Conversation

A new ancient DNA study reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species.

What is a blockchain token?

By Stephen McKeon, The Conversation

People are just becoming acquainted with the idea of digital money in the form of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, where transactions are recorded on a secure distributed database called a blockchain.