An Endicott College student covers Election Day in November 2020 in a Massachusetts community as part of the college's news-academic partnership with Gannett Media.Sloan Friedhaber, CC BY-NC-NDLocal news outlets across the U.S. are struggling to bring in advertising and subscription revenue, which pays for the reporting, editing and production of...
About 8 million U.S. children have received two shots of COVID-19 vaccine and are now eligible for a third.KoldoyChris/Moment via Getty ImagesCOVID-19 case numbers are rising again in the U.S. – including among children. In mid-May 2022, the Food and Drug Administration authorized a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. children ages...
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Sexual harassment is a common workplace hazard for nonprofit fundraisers.fizkes/iStock/Getty Images PlusWhile the #MeToo movement that raised public awareness of sexual harassment is making fewer headlines than it did in 2017 and 2018, this problem hasn’t gone away. It’s still an especially big problem for nonprofit fundraisers, the...
A teacher works with students in a computer lab.Maskot via Getty ImagesWhen advocates push for computer science education, usually they’re talking about boosting the number of schools offering computer science classes – with the intent to reach more students. But from our perspective as scholars of computer science education, a key...
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Identifying the difference between normal genetic variation and disease-causing mutations can sometimes be difficult.Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock via Getty Images PlusMost of the roughly 40 trillion cells of your body have nearly identical copies of your genome – the DNA inherited from your parents, containing instructions for everything from...
A view of the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesOn June 17, 1972, Washington, D.C., police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed the crime as a “third-rate...
Meteorologist Todd Dankers monitors weather patterns in Boulder, Colorado, Oct. 24, 2018. Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesA century ago, English mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson proposed a startling idea for that time: constructing a systematic process based on math for predicting the weather. In his 1922 book, “Weather...
NRA conventiongoers, like these at the gun group's 2018 big meeting, browse firearms exhibits.Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty ImagesThe mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school...
A girl cries outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022.Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty ImagesCalls for new gun legislation that previously failed to pass Congress are being raised again after the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at an elementary school in the small town of Uvalde, Texas.
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Scientists expect the Voyager spacecraft to outlive Earth by at least a trillion years.NASA/JPL-CalTechVoyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2,...
