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What happened during the last government shutdown: 4 essential reads

  • Written by Matt Williams, Breaking News Editor
imageRed sky at night, federal workers take fright? Mark Wilson/Getty Images

The U.S. is (once again) staring down the barrel of a government shutdown.

Barring progress on a spending bill to fund government agencies past Sept. 30, 2021 – and Democrats are busying themselves trying to get such a measure through Congress – federal workers...

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SNAP benefits are rising for millions of Americans, thanks to a long-overdue 'Thrifty Food Plan' update

  • Written by Tracy Roof, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
imageBuying enough groceries with government benefits is getting easier.Katrina Wittkamp/DigitalVision via Getty Images

The U.S. Department of Agriculture adjusts Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits to reflect changes in food prices once a year. The government agency will take two other factors into account when it increases those...

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The music of proteins is made audible through a computer program that learns from Chopin

  • Written by Peng Zhang, Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Biology, The Rockefeller University
imageTraining an algorithm to play proteins like Chopin can produce more melodious songs.Frederic Chopin/Wikimedia Commons

With the right computer program, proteins become pleasant music.

There are many surprising analogies between proteins, the basic building blocks of life, and musical notation. These analogies can be used not only to help advance...

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Combining an HIV vaccine with immunotherapy may reduce the need for daily medication

  • Written by Sheikh Abdul Rahman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University
imageThe estimated lifetime costs of antiretroviral therapy for someone who acquires HIV at age 35 is $358,380.YakubovAlim/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

A new combination treatment for HIV can strengthen a patient’s immune response against the virus even after they stop...

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Facebook sabe que Instagram está dañando la mente de los adolescentes... y decide callar

  • Written by Christia Spears Brown, Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
imageEl enfoque de Instagram en fotos filtradas de cuerpos daña la autoimagen de las jóvenes.Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Los funcionarios de Facebook realizaron una investigación interna en marzo de 2020 que mostraba que Instagram, la plataforma de redes sociales más utilizada por los adolescentes, es...

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Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast

  • Written by Jan Simek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
imageThe author examining pictographs in 60th Unnamed Cave, Tennessee.Alan Cressler

On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the cave wall, trudged through the stream itself, ducked through...

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Avoiding water bankruptcy in the drought-troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other

  • Written by Mojtaba Sadegh, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
imageIn some drought-stricken parts of the Southwest, water arrives by truck.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The 2021 water year ends on Sept. 30, and it was another hot, dry year in the western U.S., with almost the entire region in drought. Reservoirs vital for farms, communities and hydropower have fallen to dangerous lows.

The biggest blow came in August,...

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An autonomous robot may have already killed people – here's how the weapons could be more destabilizing than nukes

  • Written by James Dawes, Professor of English, Macalester College
imageThe term 'killer robot' often conjures images of Terminator-like humanoid robots. Militaries around the world are working on autonomous machines that are less scary looking but no less lethal.John F. Williams/U.S. Navy

Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last...

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New NCAA endorsement rules could benefit women more than men

  • Written by Lindsey Darvin, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, State University of New York College at Cortland
imageCollege basketball player Paige Bueckers, right, of the Connecticut Huskies, has over 900,000 followers on Instagram as of September 2021. Elsa/Getty Images

Only one week after the NCAA changed its endorsement rules on July 1, 2021, women college athletes found themselves on billboards in Times Square in New York, launching a clothing line...

Read more: New NCAA endorsement rules could benefit women more than men

Francis Scott Key: One of the anti-slavery movement's great villains

  • Written by Bennett Parten, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Yale University
imageA painting depicting Francis Scott Key aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant viewing Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on Sept. 14, 1814. Ed Vebell/Getty Images

The history wars – the battle over how we teach our country’s past – are raging.

The United States is confronting the legacies of slavery as never before. This...

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