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What public universities must do to regain public support

  • Written by Stephen M Gavazzi, Professor, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
Public support for higher education has waned in recent years.HTU/www.shutterstock.com

Universities have lost public support in recent years. In order to get it back, college presidents should worry less about how their institutions fare in college rankings and focus more on affordability, great teaching and doing research that matters most to the...

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Opening up research labs with modified mosquitoes to the community

  • Written by Brook Muller, Professor of Architecture and Environment, University of Oregon
View of Taichung City, Taiwan, behind a mosquito net. Alan Picard / Shutterstock.com

By bringing people close to disease-spreading insects, might we improve public health?

Because they spread malaria, Zika, West Nile, dengue, yellow fever and other diseases, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other organism. Some of these...

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Switching to electric vehicles could save the US billions, but timing is everything

  • Written by F. Todd Davidson, Research Associate, Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Charging six cars at once is fine. Charging 60 million might be a bit tougher.Nadya Kubik/Shutterstock.com

Today, less than 2 percent of the vehicles Americans buy are electric. But within the next three decades, some automotive industry experts expect electric vehicles could make up the majority of U.S. and global car sales.

All told, American...

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Why the next two years are critical for the Paris climate deal's survival

  • Written by Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of Management (Emeritus) and Joint Program the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Sloan School of Management
Work cut out for them: Climate negotiators need to ensure the Paris Agreement can still hold.United Nations Climate Change, CC BY-NC

A mounting sense of urgency will greet negotiators as they arrive at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland. In 2015, after 20 years of trying and failing to reach a global accord on...

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I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history

  • Written by Jane Landers, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba.David LaFevor, CC BY-SA

Many years ago, as a graduate student searching in the archives of Spanish Florida, I discovered the first “underground railroad” of enslaved Africans escaping from Protestant Carolina to find religious sanctuary in...

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CRISPR babies and other ethical missteps in science threaten China's global standing

  • Written by Caroline Wagner, Milton & Roslyn Wolf Chair in International Affairs, The Ohio State University
China's military may bear the brunt of hits to the country's scientific reputation.Roman Pilipey/Pool Photo via AP

“What happened this time was an ethics disaster for the world,” according to Wang Yuedan, a professor of immunology at Peking University, as quoted in The New York Times. He was talking about the recent claim by...

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Spending too much time on your phone? Behavioral science has an app for that

  • Written by Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Just sitting on a park bench, completely ignoring each other.Vlad Teodor/shutterstock.com

We’re squandering increasing amounts of time distracted by our phones. And that’s taking a serious toll on our mental and physical well-being.

In 2017, U.S. adults spent an average of three hours and 20 minutes a day using their smartphones and...

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Criticism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's clothes echoes attacks against early female labor activists

  • Written by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Visiting Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Twenty-nine-year-old Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman to be elected to Congress, talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP Photo/Susan Walsh

As the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has attracted much media attention.

A young outspoken woman who defines herself as...

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Este activista alemán luchó por los derechos gay y trans hace cien años

  • Written by Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
Magnus Hirschfeld, a la derecha, junto a su compañero Tao Li en la cuarta conferencia de la Liga Mundial para la Reforma Sexual de 1932.Wellcome Images, CC BY

El gobierno de Trump continúa arremetiendo contra los derechos de las personas transgénero.

En julio de 2017, Trump intentó impedir que las personas...

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Scientist at work: To take atomic-scale pictures of tiny crystals, use a huge, kilometer-long synchrotron

  • Written by Kerry Rippy, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry, Colorado State University
It takes a giant piece of equipment to look deep inside a tiny atom.Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab

It’s 4 a.m., and I’ve been up for about 20 hours straight. A loud alarm is blaring, accompanied by red strobe lights flashing. A stern voice announces, “Searching station B. Exit immediately.” It feels like an...

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  2. How where you're born influences the person you become
  3. Deepwater corals thrive at the bottom of the ocean, but can't escape human impacts
  4. US-China trade war truce: 2 reasons why it's unlikely to last
  5. 1 in 4 government officials accused of sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era is still in office today
  6. The big lessons of political advertising in 2018
  7. YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children
  8. CRISPR babies raise an uncomfortable reality – abiding by scientific standards doesn't guarantee ethical research
  9. Screening the human future: YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children
  10. George H.W. Bush understood that markets and the environment weren't enemies
  11. Climate change is shrinking winter snowpack, which harms Northeast forests year-round
  12. How Hanukkah came to America
  13. Why we'll miss George H.W. Bush, America's last foreign policy president
  14. Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for their bottom line
  15. LGBTQ caravan migrants may have to 'prove' their gender or sexual identity at US border
  16. G-20 leaders descend on Buenos Aires as host Argentina battles worst economic crisis in a decade
  17. Dorothy Day -- 'a saint for our times'
  18. How mainstream media helps weaponize far-right conspiracy theories
  19. AIDS treatment has progressed, but without a vaccine, suffering still abounds
  20. López Obrador takes power in Mexico after an unstable transition and broken campaign promises
  21. Most caregivers of people with dementia are family members, and they need help
  22. Betsy DeVos has little to show after 2 years in office
  23. Climate change is making soils saltier, forcing many farmers to find new livelihoods
  24. America's dark history of organized anti-Semitism re-emerges in today's far-right groups
  25. The surprising way plastics could actually help fight climate change
  26. How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby – and what health worries may ensue
  27. Will Trump pardon Manafort?
  28. Swamped by cyberthreats, citizens need government protection
  29. Trump was dealt a winning hand on trade – his hardball negotiating tactics are squandering it
  30. How Salvation Army's red kettles became a Christmas tradition
  31. What big data can tell us about how a book becomes a best-seller
  32. Forget lanes – we all need to head together toward preventing firearm injury
  33. Test prep is a rite of passage for many Asian-Americans
  34. 5 ways to help robots work together with people
  35. Low-income parents want a white picket fence, not just money, before getting married
  36. In Georgia's gubernatorial race, Stacey Abrams' strategy may make victory easier for future black candidates in the South
  37. Companies blocked from using West Coast ports to export fossil fuels keep seeking workarounds
  38. Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi case: What would Obama have done?
  39. Rogue science strikes again: The case of the first gene-edited babies
  40. The road to enhancement, via human gene editing, is paved with good intentions
  41. The key to fixing the gender gap in math and science: Boost women's confidence
  42. Why aren't there electric airplanes yet?
  43. Kim Kardashian West and ecstasy: A reminder of the social dangers of the drug
  44. Living drugs: Engineering bacteria to treat genetic diseases
  45. Instagram posts suggest e-scooter companies like Bird aren't promoting safe riding to newbies
  46. Why Twitter's cute, heart-shaped 'like' button is not so harmless
  47. How local journalism can upend the 'fake news' narrative
  48. A rush to judgment: The Trump administration is taking science out of air quality standards
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