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  • SUQIAN, CHINA – NOVEMBER 21, 2022 – Financial illustration: RMB Central Bill, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China, November 21, 2022. On November 21, the People’s Bank of China will issue 3-month bills worth 10 billion yuan and 1-year bills worth 15 billion yuan in Hong Kong. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

    The Chinese Yuan could finally become a fierce competitor for the US dollar

    By Tuugi Chuluun and The Conversation
  • Dollar bills and a social security cardFinance

    Social Security is in trouble: Checks could be cut 23% by 2034

    By Andrew Rettenmaier, Dennis W. Jansen, and others
  • UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – AUGUST 13: Mario Lopez takes the ALS ice bucket challenge at “Extra” at Universal Studios Hollywood on August 13, 2014 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Internet sensation Mr. Beast has become the face of ‘stunt philanthropy’ by raising money for worthy causes —and a few ethical questions

    By Monica Lea and The Conversation
  • A woman dancing in a night club.Lifestyle

    Amsterdam was the first city in the world to hire a ‘Night Mayor’—now the practice is catching on as cities look for help governing after dark

    By Jess Reia and The Conversation
  • ViniciusLifestyle

    The horrific racial abuse that Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior keeps suffering suggests Spain’s soccer problem is bigger than bad fans

    By John M. Sloop and The Conversation
  • DroughtEnvironment

    Every major agriculture region around the world is facing a future of more ‘flash droughts,’ study says

    By Jeff Basara, Jordan Christian, and others
  • Nothing soothes the soul like a deep sleepLife

    A little-understood sleep disorder affects millions and has clear links to dementia. These are the signs

    By Anelyssa D'Abreu and The Conversation
  • Jet skisSuccess

    Americans in search of a better life are moving from blue states to red states—but it could backfire big time

    By Robert Samuels and The Conversation
  • VaticanLifestyle

    The Vatican just revolutionized the way it investigates apparitions and other mystical phenomena around Virgin Mary sightings

    By Deirdre de la Cruz and The Conversation
  • Rising sea levelsEnvironment

    The Supreme Court just gave a massive boost to the dozens of cities suing Big Oil over rising sea levels, 2 law professors say

    By Patrick Parenteau, John Dernbach, and others
  • Woman staring into spaceMind

    Some people just can’t visualize things in their mind. We’re learning more all the time about the condition called ‘aphantasia.’

    By Emiko Muraki and The Conversation
  • Group of senior women friends doing tai chi exercise outdoors in park.

    Falls are the leading cause of injury in older adults. 5 balance exercises can help stave off some of the risk

    By Evan Papa and The Conversation
  • 3d high resolution render of a human head with neurons insideMind

    Scientists can now measure the intensity of chronic pain using brain signals

    By Prasad Shirvalkar and The Conversation
  • Star GardenSuccess

    Unionized bodies in topless bar: How sex workers became the new frontier of the labor movement

    By John Logan and The Conversation
  • LVIV REGION, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 22: Participant practice flying a drone, in this case to locate colleagues who were hiding and pretending to be enemy snipers, during a combat training day hosted by a local paramilitary civil formation called TSEL on February 22, 2023 in Lviv region, Ukraine. Paramilitary civil formations are the successor to the voluntary territorial defence units that emerged in the months before Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine to train civilians in combat tactics. Today TSEL fulfils a number of roles, including supplying its own colleagues who are fighting under the Ukrainian armed forces in the east, patrolling Lviv and its outskirts to enforce nightly curfews, and to provide basic military skills such as shooting, first aid, drone operation and combat tactics to interested civilians. Today’s training brought together former military service members who have not yet been mobilized for the war as well as civilians without previous military experience, including an industrial sewing machine repairman, a car mechanic and a legal consulting firm employee. February 24 will mark the first anniversary since Russia’s invasion. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Politics

    Drone conflict is like the Wild West with each country playing by its own rules—and the tech is only getting more sophisticated

    By The Conversation and Tara Sonenshine