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Protecting wetlands helps communities reduce damage from hurricanes and storms

  • Written by Siddharth Narayan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Coastal Flood Risk, University of California, Santa Cruz
Protecting coastal wetlands, like this slough in Florida's Everglades National Park, is a cost-effective way to reduce flooding and storm damage.NPS/C. Rivas

2017 was the worst year on record for hurricane damage in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean from Harvey, Irma and Maria. We had hoped for a reprieve this year, but less than a month after...

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Don't be afraid to talk about the costs of dealing with climate change

  • Written by Brian Greenhill, Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
Climate change denial, underwater.Matt Brown/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Climate advocates have struggled to persuade half of the U.S. public of the need to do more to slow the pace of global warming.

But even as climate scientists are sounding louder and louder alarms about the urgency of the situation, they disagree among themselves about how to proceed.

A...

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Physical therapy important for women treated for breast cancer

  • Written by Mary Insana Fisher, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, University of Dayton
Surviving breast cancer has been the biggest treatment goal until recent years, when attention began to turn to surviving well, as these three women appear to be. fitzcrittle/Shutterstock.com

The survival rate for breast cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women, is now about 90 percent, increased by nearly 20 percent since the 1970s.

Wi...

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Being born in the wrong ZIP code can shorten your life

  • Written by Jessica Young, Assistant Professor of Health Studies, American University
Babies born 10 miles apart could represent a life expectancy difference of almost 33 years.Ana Prego/shutterstock.com

Newly released data on life expectancy across the U.S. shows that where we live matters for how long we live.

A person in the U.S. can expect to live an average of 78.8 years, according to the most recent numbers from the Centers...

Read more: Being born in the wrong ZIP code can shorten your life

Organic farming with gene editing: An oxymoron or a tool for sustainable agriculture?

  • Written by Rebecca Mackelprang, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Many farmers cultivating organic crops believe that genetically modified crops pose threats to human health.mythja/Shutterstock.com

A University of California, Berkeley professor stands at the front of the room, delivering her invited talk about the potential of genetic engineering. Her audience, full of organic farming advocates, listens uneasily....

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Hurricane Michael could bring more inland flooding to southeast states

  • Written by Craig E. Colten, Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography, Louisiana State University
A street sign sticks up from floodwaters after Hurricane Florence in Nichols, South Carolina, September 21, 2018. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Coastal counties in North and South Carolina are still assessing damage from Hurricane Florence, which dropped up to three feet of rain in some areas in September. Now, along with southern Georgia, they face new...

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Youth living in settlements at US border suffer poverty and lack of health care

  • Written by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Professor of Social Work, Nursing and Global Public Health, New York University
Children play in the Indian Hills East Colonia near Alamo, Texas.AP Photo/Eric Gay

Recent media stories from the U.S.-Mexico border about immigration have largely missed the daily struggle of families and children in U.S. communities called “colonias.”

Colonias line both sides of the border, including the southern counties of Texas,...

Read more: Youth living in settlements at US border suffer poverty and lack of health care

La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio: 6 consejos para evitarlo

  • Written by Elizabeth Englander, Professor of Psychology, and the Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC), Bridgewater State University
Los teléfonos móviles conllevan ciertos riesgos para los estudiantes de educación primaria.Rido/www.shutterstock.com

Cada año más padres dejan a sus hijos llevar un teléfono inteligente al colegio.

Por ejemplo, en Estados Unidos el porcentaje de estudiantes de tercero de primaria que tienen teléfono...

Read more: La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio:...

La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio: seis consejos para evitarlo

  • Written by Elizabeth Englander, Professor of Psychology, and the Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC), Bridgewater State University
Los teléfonos móviles conllevan ciertos riesgos para los estudiantes de educación primaria.Rido/www.shutterstock.com

Cada año más padres dejan a sus hijos llevar un teléfono inteligente al colegio.

Por ejemplo, en Estados Unidos el porcentaje de estudiantes de tercero de primaria que tienen teléfono...

Read more: La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio:...

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  5. Justice Kavanaugh is a threat to Roe v. Wade – but not the only one
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  7. Breast cancer survivors, who lose muscle mass, can benefit from strength training, studies suggest
  8. The Catholic Church's grim history of ignoring priestly pedophilia – and silencing would-be whistleblowers
  9. Statistics and data science degrees: Overhyped or the real deal?
  10. 'Disillusioned' Brazilians choose Bolsonaro, Haddad after a tense and violent campaign
  11. Could villains clone themselves to take over the world?
  12. Amazon and other 'superstar' companies could give all American workers a raise
  13. Why more women don't win science Nobels
  14. Warriors against sexual violence win Nobel Peace Prize: 4 essential reads
  15. Columbus believed he would find 'blemmyes' and 'sciapods' – not people – in the New World
  16. How the loss of Native American languages affects our understanding of the natural world
  17. Beto O'Rourke won't beat Ted Cruz in Texas – here's why
  18. Could an artificial intelligence be considered a person under the law?
  19. For mothers who lose their babies, donating breast milk is a healing ritual
  20. 'Bystander effect' and sexual assault: What the research says
  21. Massacres, disappearances and 1968: Mexicans remember the victims of a 'perfect dictatorship'
  22. 'Coming of Age in Mississippi' still speaks to nation's racial discord, 50 years later
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  24. Why trade deficits aren't so bad
  25. Does a man's social class have anything to do with the likelihood he'll commit sexual assault?
  26. Controversial young adult novel offers insight into Kavanaugh hearings, sexual assault
  27. Think journalism's a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age
  28. Nobel goes to chemists who learned to 'hack' evolution in the lab
  29. Success of immunotherapy stimulates future pigment cell and melanoma research
  30. A proposed tax break for the masses designed to spur giving
  31. Interruptions at Supreme Court confirmation hearings have been rising since the 1980s
  32. New materials are powering the battery revolution
  33. Sexism, racism drive black women to run for office in both Brazil and US
  34. Sexism, racism drive more black women to run for office in both Brazil and US
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  36. Fishing forecasts can predict marine creature movements
  37. 50 years old, '2001: A Space Odyssey' still offers insight about the future
  38. 4 things journalists can do to rebuild trust with the public
  39. Ted Turner has Lewy body dementia, but what is that?
  40. How should we judge people for their past moral failings?
  41. Charities take digital money now – and the risks that go with it
  42. 2018 Nobel Prize for physics goes to tools made from light beams – a particle physicist explains
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  45. 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: a turning point in the war on cancer
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  50. The Catholic Church resists change – but Vatican II shows it's possible