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Votes cast in November will shape Congress through 2030

  • Written by Robin Best, Associate Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageA small sliver of a congressional district in Pennsylvania crossed four counties, on a map that was ruled to be a partisan gerrymandering plan.AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

When voters cast their ballots in November, they won’t just decide who will be president in 2021 – they will also have a voice in determining the partisan makeup of...

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Ancient microbial life used arsenic to thrive in a world without oxygen

  • Written by Pieter Visscher, Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut
imagePurple microbial mats offer clues to how ancient life functioned. Pieter Visscher, CC BY-ND

Billions of years ago, life on Earth was mostly just large slimy mats of microbes living in shallow water. Sometimes, these microbial communities made carbonate minerals that over many years cemented together to become layered limestone rocks called...

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Teaching kids to read during the coronavirus pandemic: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Keisha McIntosh Allen, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageSiblings, as well as parents, can help young learners become avid readers.Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Keisha Allen and Kindel Nash research how kids learn to read and prepare future teachers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. They are also raising children of their own. Here, they answer five questions many families...

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Video: How will society change as the US population ages?

  • Written by Marcia G. Ory, Regents and Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University
imageFamilies are still the primary caregivers for older Americans.MoMo Productions/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Editor’s note: Even as average life expectancy has started to trend downward in the U.S., Americans 65 and older are living longer. The change toward longer old age will have profound effects on health care needs, families and what it...

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Homes are flooding outside FEMA's 100-year flood zones, and racial inequality is showing through

  • Written by Kevin T. Smiley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University
imageHurricane Harvey showed the racial disparities in flood damage outside Houston's 100-year flood zones.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

When hurricanes and other extreme storms unleash downpours like Tropical Storm Beta has been doing in the South, the floodwater doesn’t always stay within the government’s flood risk zones.

New research suggests...

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In death, as in life, Ruth Bader Ginsburg balanced being American and Jewish

  • Written by Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
imageNo lengthy viewing of the body, but no quick burial either.Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images

As news of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spread on the eve of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, a common question heard in discussions among American Jews was: “When will she be buried?”

As a longtime scholar of American Jewish life,...

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Los trolls políticos se adaptan: crean nuevo material para engañar y confundir más a la audiencia

  • Written by Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
imageLos trolls se ponen creativos con su decepción electoral.Planet Flem/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

Los trolls de Twitter patrocinados por Rusia, que explotaron tan agresivamente las redes sociales para influir en las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses de 2016, no se detuvieron cuando Donald Trump fue elegido presidente.

Incluso...

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The clothes make the candidate: The sartorial politics of this year's key Senate races

  • Written by Jo-Ellen Pozner, Assistant Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University
imageConservative suit? Check. Rep tie? Check. Mitch McConnell looks every inch a senator.Scott Applewhite/Getty

When Richard Nixon praised his wife’s “respectable Republican cloth coat” in his 1952 Checkers speech, her clothes were not the point.

Rather, Nixon drew a direct line from a coat to the values he proclaimed –...

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The neural cruelty of captivity: Keeping large mammals in zoos and aquariums damages their brains

  • Written by Bob Jacobs, Professor of Neuroscience, Colorado College
imagePhotograph of an elephant brain. Dr. Paul Manger/ University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, CC BY-ND

Hanako, a female Asian elephant, lived in a tiny concrete enclosure at Japan’s Inokashira Park Zoo for more than 60 years, often in chains, with no stimulation. In the wild, elephants live in herds, with close family ties. Hanako was...

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Which of Trump's Supreme Court choices might be most reliably conservative?

  • Written by Matthew Dahl, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Notre Dame
imagePresident Donald Trump has said he will name a Supreme Court nominee in the coming days.AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

As President Donald Trump looks to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he and other Republicans want to secure a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest court...

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