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US intelligence report on UFOs: No aliens, but government transparency and desire for better data might bring science to the UFO world

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
imageThe new government report describes 144 sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena.U.S. Navy

On June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a much-anticipated report on UFOs to Congress. The military has rebranded unidentified flying objects as unidentified aerial phenomena – UAPs – in part to avoid the...

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An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used in disasters like the Florida condo collapse

  • Written by Robin R. Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Vice-President Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (nfp), Texas A&M University
imageA drone flies above search and rescue personnel at the site of the Champlain Towers South Condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has deployed robots at 29 disasters, including three building collapses, two mine disasters and an earthquake as director of the Center for Robot-Assisted...

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Critical race theory: What it is and what it isn't

  • Written by David Miguel Gray, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis
imagePresident Lyndon Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which aimed to do away with racial discrimination in the law. But discrimination persisted.AP file photo

U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to fellow Republicans on June 24, 2021, stating: “As Republicans, we reject the racial essentialism that critical race theory teaches...

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China's 'one-child policy' left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them

  • Written by Lihong Shi, Associate Professor of Anthropology , Case Western Reserve University
imageFor four decades, the Chinese government has restricted family size.Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images

A child’s death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add financial ruin to emotional devastation.

That’s one conclusion of a research project on parental grief I’ve...

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To make agriculture more climate-friendly, carbon farming needs clear rules

  • Written by Laura van der Pol, Ph.D Student in Ecology, Colorado State University
imageSoybeans sprout on an Illinois farm through corn stubble left on an unplowed field from the previous season – an example of no-till farming.Paige Buck, USDA/Flickr, CC BY

As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon...

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The ethical questions raised by COVID-19 vaccines: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Matt Williams, Religion & Ethics Editor
imagePondering the ethical considerations? iStock / Getty Images Plus

The U.S. is edging closer by the day to seeing half of its population fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Although vaccination rates differs from state to state, the national figure currently stands at 46.4%. That goes up to 57.2% when looking solely at the adult population.

Vaccines...

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When a Black boxing champion beat the 'Great White Hope,' all hell broke loose

  • Written by Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
imageBlack heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, right, beat James Jeffries in 1910, sparking racial violence.George Haley, San Francisco Call, via University of California, Riverside, via Library of Congress

An audacious Black heavyweight champion was slated to defend his title against a white boxer in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. It was billed as...

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The US drug industry used to oppose patents – what changed?

  • Written by Joseph M. Gabriel, Associate Professor of History and Social Medicine, Florida State University

The United States, Europe and other wealthy parts of the world have already vaccinated large parts of their populations, yet vaccine rates in poor countries are lagging badly. That’s why the surprise announcement this spring that the United States will support waiving patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines is so important.

Drugmakers...

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The Declaration of Independence wasn't really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July Fourth

  • Written by Woody Holton, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
imageFireworks shows commonly celebrate the nation's birthday. Pete Saloutos via Getty Images

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains.

His forthcoming book “Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American...

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Trees are dying of thirst in the Western drought – here’s what’s going on inside their veins

  • Written by Daniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Tree Physiology and Forest Ecology, University of Georgia
imageJuniper trees, common in Arizona's Prescott National Forest, have been dying with the drought.Benjamin Roe/USDA Forest Service via AP

Like humans, trees need water to survive on hot, dry days, and they can survive for only short times under extreme heat and dry conditions.

During prolonged droughts and extreme heat waves like the Western U.S. is...

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  4. Infrastructure spending has always involved social engineering
  5. Defund the police? Actually, police salaries are rising in departments across the United States
  6. How did the superstition that broken mirrors cause bad luck start and why does it still exist?
  7. Florida condo collapse – searching for answers about what went wrong in Surfside can improve building regulation
  8. The neuroscience behind why your brain may need time to adjust to 'un-social distancing'
  9. A pediatric nurse explains the science of sneezing
  10. Fungal infections worldwide are becoming resistant to drugs and more deadly
  11. College can still be rigorous without a lot of homework
  12. Controversy over Communion in the Catholic Church goes back some 2,000 years
  13. How colonialism's legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today
  14. Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact
  15. Free-speech ruling won't help declining civil discourse
  16. What are tax havens? The answer explains why the G-7 effort to end them is unlikely to succeed
  17. What today's GOP demonstrates about the dangers of partisan conformity
  18. Youth sports and other challenges of a nonbinary world: 3 essential reads
  19. Closures of Black K-12 schools across the nation threaten neighborhood stability
  20. Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?
  21. Research that shines light on how cells recover from threats may lead to new insights into Alzheimer's and ALS
  22. Schools must act carefully on students' off-campus speech, Supreme Court rules
  23. Why it's such a big deal that the NFL's Carl Nassib came out as gay
  24. Conversion therapy is discredited and increases risk of suicide -- yet fewer than half of US states have bans in place
  25. The behind-the-scenes people and organizations connecting science and decision-making
  26. Ransomware, data breach, cyberattack: What do they have to do with your personal information, and how worried should you be?
  27. How palm oil became the world's most hated, most used fat source
  28. Why choosing the next dalai lama will be a religious – as well as a political – issue
  29. How the billions MacKenzie Scott is giving to colleges attended by students of color will help everyone in America
  30. Gifted education programs don't benefit Black students like they do white students
  31. 'Wrong number? Let's chat' Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials to make connections
  32. Yellowstone is losing its snow as the climate warms, and that means widespread problems for water and wildlife
  33. Despite outrage, new state voting laws don't spell democracy's end – but there are some threats
  34. How gay neighborhoods used the traumas of HIV to help American cities fight coronavirus
  35. For flood-prone cities, seawalls raise as many questions as they answer
  36. Transgender medicine – what care looks like, who seeks it out and what's still unknown: 3 essential reads
  37. The FDA’s weak drug manufacturing oversight is a potentially deadly problem
  38. Flawed data led to findings of a connection between time spent on devices and mental health problems – new research
  39. How Vladimir Putin uses natural gas to exert Russian influence and punish his enemies
  40. Biden's goal to permanently boost support for families echoes a failed Nixon proposal from 50 years ago – will it take off this time?
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  42. What is the religious exemption to Title IX and what's at stake in LGBTQ students' legal challenge
  43. Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution – 99% of people in poor countries are unvaccinated
  44. 'Upcycling' promises to turn food waste into your next meal
  45. Explorer Robert Ballard's memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in the ocean's darkest reaches
  46. White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars
  47. The gas tax's tortured history shows how hard it is to fund new infrastructure
  48. US third parties can rein in the extremism of the two-party system
  49. Critical race theory sparks activism in students
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