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Desinformación y la vacuna contra la gripe: 3 lecciones para combatir mitos

  • Written by Matthew Motta, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science of Science Communication at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Californians in June 2015 protest a bill that did away with personal belief exemptions for vaccinating children before they enter school.Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo

El 43% de los norteamericanos cree que vacunarse contra la gripe provoca que uno contraiga esta enfermedad, a pesar de que diversos estudios científicos han demostrado lo...

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Nancy Pelosi victorious – why the California Democrat was reelected speaker of the House

  • Written by Kathryn L. Pearson, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who will become speaker of the House on Jan. 3, walks to her new office at the Capitol during a television interview for the NBC Today Show, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. The Republicans will relinquish the majority to House Democrats under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi beginning a new...

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Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields

  • Written by Amanda Cavanagh, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A farmer shows smaller-than-usual soybeans harvested due to drought conditions in Tallapoosa, Georgia.AP Photo/David Goldman

What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent of the time?

We face this situation every day. That’s because the plants that produce the food we eat evolved to solve a...

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Emotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test

  • Written by Lauren Rhue, Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics, Wake Forest University

Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily life. For example, companies can use facial recognition software to help with hiring decisions. Other programs scan the faces in crowds to identify threats to public safety.

Unfortunately,...

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The EPA has backed off enforcement under Trump – here are the numbers

  • Written by Marianne Sullivan, Associate Professor of Public Health, William Paterson University
Oil refiners are fined for exceeding air pollution limits when rules are enforced.AP Photo/David J. Phillip

The Trump administration has sought to weaken the Environmental Protection Agency in a number of ways, from staff and proposed budget cuts to attempts to undermine the use of science in policymaking.

Now, our new research finds that one of...

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Should children as young as 12 be sent to juvenile detention?

  • Written by Natalia Orendain, Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
Youth detention center in Atlanta. AP Photo/David Goldman

Children under 12 will no longer be treated as criminals in the state of California when they break the law, based on a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1.

Before the law was passed, California had no minimum age for sending children to juvenile court – and that’s still true...

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Gen Z entrepreneurs view higher education as vital to their startups

  • Written by Eric J. Barron, President, Pennsylvania State University
Young entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to universities to help launch their businesses. GUGAI/www.shutterstock.com

Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a distinctly unconventional and often irreverent approach to problem-solving. In my day-to-day interactions...

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Health insurers want you to try cheaper drugs first, but that can hurt you

  • Written by Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
Physicians often have reasons for prescribing a specific drug. Burlingham/Shutterstock.com

Few people are familiar with the term “step therapy,” but most Americans have health insurance policies that adopt it. Step therapy programs, also known as “fail first policies,” require patients to try less expensive treatments before...

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Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

  • Written by Lewi Stone, Professor of Biomathematics, RMIT University
A concentration camp in Poland.AkzuzkA/shutterstock.com

Even though the Holocaust is one of the best documented genocides in a historical sense, there is surprisingly little quantitative dataavailable, even on major critical events.

What’s more, this history is often told in figures too large to comprehend on the human scale. Large numbers...

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The new Congress and the history of governing by a house divided

  • Written by Brooks D. Simpson, Faculty Head and Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication, Arizona State University
What will a divided Congress do over the next two years?Shutterstock

As the 116th Congress convenes this week, power has shifted from Republican control of both the Senate and House to a Republican Senate and a Democratic House, poised to battle each other under a Republican president who is under fire.

How can American political history help us...

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