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Goodbye Kepler, hello TESS: Passing the baton in the search for distant planets

  • Written by Jason Steffen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft is monitoring.NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry, CC BY

For centuries, human beings have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbor strange forms of life or have unique and...

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Why double-majors might beat you out of a job

  • Written by Matthew J. Mayhew, William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Educational Administration, The Ohio State University
New research shows double majors have a big competitive advantage in one critical area.fizkes/Shutterstock

Two college majors are better than one. That is the conclusion that researchers are beginning to reach.

Prior research has already shown that students who double major can earn more than peers who majored in only one field.

New research we...

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Why weather forecasters still struggle to get the big storms right

  • Written by Jeffrey B. Halverson, Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Snow on the ground after a winter storm. NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response

It was March 2017, and a winter storm named Stella promised to deliver up to a foot and a half of snow to New York City and parts of New Jersey. Officials pushed out blizzard warnings, suggesting the city was under imminent snowy siege.

But only 7 inches fell. Then-Gov. Chris...

Read more: Why weather forecasters still struggle to get the big storms right

Coral reefs are in crisis – but scientists are finding effective ways to restore them

  • Written by Deron Burkepile, Associate Professor of Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Juvenile blue tang sheltering in restored staghorn coral.Mark Ladd, CC BY-ND

These are bleak times for coral reefs. Warming ocean waters, disease outbreaks, pollution, sedimentation, careless scuba divers, destructive fishing practices, and a host of other global and local stressors are decimating coral populations at unprecedented rates.

If there...

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Why California gets to write its own auto emissions standards: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Nicholas Bryner, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, University of California, Los Angeles
Rush hour on the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, September 9, 2016.AP Photo/Richard Vogel

Editor’s note: On April 2, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that the Trump administration plans to revise tailpipe emissions standards negotiated by the Obama administration for motor vehicles built between 2022 and...

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Paper trails and random audits could secure all elections – don't save them just for recounts in close races

  • Written by Eugene Vorobeychik, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Recounting very close races is not enough to ensure election integrity.AP Photo/Ben Finley

As states begin to receive millions of federal dollars to secure the 2018 primary and general elections, officials around the country will have to decide how to spend it to best protect the integrity of the democratic process. If voters don’t trust the...

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Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract DNA from human remains

  • Written by Chip Colwell, Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
Who gets to decide for the dead, such as this Egyptian mummy? AP Photo/Ric Feld

The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to recently reported research. The tiny body with its strange features – a pointed head, elongated bones – had been the subject of fierce debate over whether a UFO might...

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Colombia's murder rate is at an all-time low but its activists keep getting killed

  • Written by Fabio Andres Diaz, Researcher on Conflict, Peace and Development, International Institute of Social Studies

A 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was supposed to bring peace to this South American country after a 52-year civil war that killed 220,000 people.

Instead, nearly 300 community organizers and activists have been murdered since the accords were signed in...

Read more: Colombia's murder rate is at an all-time low but its activists keep getting killed

For many US towns and cities, deciding which streets to name after MLK reflects his unfinished work

  • Written by Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
Where Davis meets King.Editor, CC BY-SA

More than 1,000 streets in the world bear the name of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

At least 955 of those streets can be found in the U.S. They’re in 41 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Martin Luther King streets cross a diversity of neighborhoods – rural and...

Read more: For many US towns and cities, deciding which streets to name after MLK reflects his unfinished work

How to deal with life's risks more rationally

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University
People are bad at weighing risk, which is why so many Americans don't get flu shots. AP Photo/David Goldman

The world is an uncertain and risky place. The news constantly bombards us with scary situations from school shootings to gruesome murders.

Risk is everywhere and associated with everything. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and...

Read more: How to deal with life's risks more rationally

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  5. Howard University student protest: 3 questions answered
  6. Stronger fuel standards make sense, even when gas prices are low
  7. Why China's soybean tariffs matter
  8. Sinclair-style employment contracts that require payment for quitting are very uncommon. Here's why
  9. Why the Christian right opposes pornography but still supports Trump
  10. Look up – it's a satellite!
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  12. Behind the scenes of Venezuela's deadly prison fire
  13. Gaza's nonviolent protesters exploited by Hamas, but feared by Israel
  14. When police use force: 3 essential reads
  15. Sure, cancer mutates, but it has other ways to resist treatment
  16. Driverless cars are already here but the roads aren't ready for them
  17. Today's youth reject capitalism, but what do they want to replace it?
  18. I’m suing Scott Pruitt’s broken EPA - here’s how to fix it
  19. Why are Sinclair's scripted news segments such a big deal?
  20. What meeting your spouse online has in common with arranged marriage
  21. Resisting technology, Appalachian style
  22. Half of Earth's satellites restrict use of climate data
  23. Why a census question about citizenship should worry you, whether you're a citizen or not
  24. Genes and environment have equal influence in learning for rich and poor kids, study finds
  25. 5 things to know about the teacher strike in Oklahoma
  26. Why bodycam footage might not clear things up
  27. A chicken in every backyard: Urban poultry needs more regulation to protect human and animal health
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  29. Costa Rica looks a little less exceptional after its heated election
  30. Statesman, strongman, philosopher, autocrat: China's Xi is a man who contains multitudes
  31. Trump's military policy overlooks data on why transgender troops are fit to serve
  32. Why prime numbers still fascinate mathematicians, 2,300 years later
  33. Fabiano Caruana is poised to do what no American has done since Bobby Fischer. Here's the path he took to get there
  34. Colleges must confront sexual assault and sexual harassment head on
  35. FDR's forest army: How the New Deal helped seed the modern environmental movement 85 years ago
  36. MLK's vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in poverty
  37. 'Oklahoma!' at 75: Has the musical withstood the test of time?
  38. Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood
  39. How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it
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  42. Military mission in Puerto Rico after hurricane was better than critics say but suffered flaws
  43. Langston Hughes' hidden influence on MLK
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