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Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether the challenge is drought or floods

  • Written by Christine E. Hatch, Professor of Geosciences, UMass Amherst
imageWetlands created by beavers, like this one in Amherst, Massachusetts, store floodwaters and provide habitat for animals and birds.Christine Hatch, CC BY-ND

It’s no accident that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology claim the beaver (Castor canadensis) as their mascots. Renowned engineers,...

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Why getting Congress to fund help for US children in poverty is so hard to do

  • Written by Leslie Lenkowsky, Senior Counsellor and Professor Emeritus of Practice in Philanthropic Studies, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, IUPUI
imageHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi strongly supported the 2021 expansion of the child tax credit.Mario Tama/Getty Images

The Build Back Better bill, the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s domestic policy, cleared the House of Representatives by a slender margin largely along party lines in November 2021.

Legislative progress came to a sudden...

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How the pandemic's unequal toll on people of color underlines US health inequities – and why solving them is so critical

  • Written by Abubakarr Jalloh, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Hollins University
imageDifferences in the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live and work can lead to health disparities.SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in communities of color than in the general population – thrusting the long-standing issue of health disparities in...

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CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally

  • Written by Maureen Ferran, Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageCORBEVAX uses recombinant DNA technology that many countries already have the infrastructure to produce.Artis777 via iStock/Getty Images Plus

The world now has a new COVID-19 vaccine in its arsenal, and at a fraction of the cost per dose.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen over 314 million infections and over 5.5 million deaths...

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What 13th-century Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas can teach us about hope in times of despair

  • Written by Christopher Beem, Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
imageThomas Aquinas, Pope Innocent III and Italian mathematician Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri. ZU_09/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty images

Polls show that a majority of Americans are very worried about the state of U.S. democracy. One survey from January 2022 finds that 64% of Americans believe U.S. democracy is “in crisis and at risk of...

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What causes a tsunami? An ocean scientist explains the physics of these destructive waves

  • Written by Sally Warner, Assistant Professor of Climate Science, Brandeis University
imageOn Jan. 15, 2022, coastal areas across California were placed under a tsunami warning. Gado via Getty Images

On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean in all directions.

As word of the eruption spread, government agencies on surrounding islands and in places as...

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Batteries get hyped, but pumped hydro provides the vast majority of long-term energy storage essential for renewable power – here’s how it works

  • Written by Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
imageThe U.S. has thousands of lakes and reservoirs that could be paired for pumped hydro storage without the need for rivers.Ollo via Getty Images

To cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half within a decade, the Biden administration’s goal, the U.S. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage.

Wind...

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State efforts to close the K-12 digital divide may come up short

  • Written by Stephanie Holcomb, Ph.D. Student in Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
imageStudents and teachers alike struggle with digital connectivity – but education is just one area in which technology matters.AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

In 2021, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced that education officials in his state had “closed” the digital divide by ensuring that every public school student had a laptop or tablet and...

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The omicron variant is deepening severe staffing shortages in medical laboratories across the US

  • Written by Rodney E. Rohde, Regents' Professor of Clinical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
imageThousands of physicians throughout the U.S. rely daily on the critical data provided to them by medical labs.xavierarnau/E+ via Getty Images

Medical laboratory professionals form the backbone of health care and the public health system. They conduct some 13 billion laboratory medicine tests annually in the U.S. As of January 2022, these individuals...

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Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard won't clean up gamer culture overnight: 5 essential reads about sexual harassment and discrimination in gaming and tech

  • Written by Eric Smalley, Science + Technology Editor

Microsoft announced on Jan. 18, 2022, its intention to purchase video game giant Activision Blizzard. The company, publisher of top-selling video games Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush, has been the subject of a series of sexual discrimination and harassment complaints. A day before Microsoft’s announcement, Activision...

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