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What's behind Italy's crisis and why it matters

  • Written by Bruno Pellegrino, PhD Candidate in Business Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Giuseppe Conte is Italy's newest prime minister. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

Editor’s note: Italy managed to form a government after briefly slipping into political crisis, which sent markets around the world into a panic as investors fretted about the fate of the European Union. The crisis began on May 27 when the political party that won the...

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Teenage depression: If a parent doesn't get treatment for a child, is that abuse?

  • Written by Michael Shapiro, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, University of Florida
Teenage depression is a serious and lonely illness, sometimes leading to suicide. fizkes/Shutterstock.com

Hospital visits for kids in the U.S. who have contemplated or thought about suicide have risen sharply.

As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I am not surprised. For years, I ran a child psychiatric hospital, where we treat kids after they...

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Why Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria is so much higher than officials thought

  • Written by Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
Hurricane Maria’s destruction likely have led to thousands more deaths than originally estimated.Ramon Espinosa/AP

“If you don’t get away from those areas, you are going to die.” That statement concluded Puerto Rico Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera’s press conference before Hurricane Maria.

As of Dec....

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Deportado dos veces, este hombre lucha para salvar a su familia

  • Written by Oscar Gil-Garcia, Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
La cerca de la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México que separa Tijuana, México y San Diego, Calif.AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd

Durante más de una década documenté la deportación de un hombre, el impacto que tuvo en su familia y su eventual regreso a Estados Unidos.

Hice esto como parte de mis estudios de la...

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Deportado dos veces, este hombre lucha para ayudar a la supervivencia de su familia

  • Written by Oscar Gil-Garcia, Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
La cerca de la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México que separa Tijuana, México y San Diego, Calif.AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd

Durante más de una década documenté la deportación de un hombre, el impacto que tuvo en su familia y su eventual regreso a Estados Unidos.

Hice esto como parte de mis estudios de la...

Read more: Deportado dos veces, este hombre lucha para ayudar a la supervivencia de su familia

Juul: Why a trendy e-cig is causing a social – and public health – commotion

  • Written by Amy Lauren Fairchild, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the School of Public Health, Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Texas A&M Health Science Center, Professor of Health Policy & Management, Texas A&M Universit
A woman exhaling after taking a hit from a Juul. vaping360.com/juul/juul-vapor-review/, CC BY-SA

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a campaign to discourage e-cigarette vaping. While it targeted all e-cigarette vaping, the campaign makes a powerful visual reference to Juul, a device that can be recharged in a computer...

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Immigration agents X-raying migrants to determine age isn't just illegal, it's a misuse of science

  • Written by Elizabeth A. DiGangi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Teeth and bones can tell something about age – but not someone's birthday.Journal of Forensic Dental Sciences, CC BY-NC-SA

A teenager’s father is murdered in Somalia, and the boy travels to the United States seeking asylum. Another teen’s father and brother are murdered by extremist groups in Afghanistan and he too makes his way...

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Why poverty is rising faster in suburbs than in cities

  • Written by Scott W. Allard, Professor of Social Policy, University of Washington
An American suburb.jansgate/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

In the U.S., the geography of poverty is shifting.

According to a May report from the Pew Research Center, since 2000, suburban counties have experienced sharper increases in poverty than urban or rural counties.

This is consistent with research across the U.S. over the past decade – as well as my...

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How can criminals manipulate cryptocurrency markets?

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Now you see it, now you don't.Syda Productions/Shutterstock.com

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are based on systems that are supposed to be inherently protected from fraud. Yet the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into manipulation of bitcoin prices. How is that sort of activity even possible?

From researching blockchain...

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  2. Missouri's dark money scandal, explained
  3. How the US benefits when it educates future world leaders
  4. The sage grouse isn't just a bird – it's a proxy for control of Western lands
  5. Why ABC reacted so swiftly to Roseanne's racist tweet
  6. Triclosan, a common antimicrobial in toothpaste and other products, linked to inflammation and cancer in the gut
  7. Organs-on-chips: Tiny technology helping bring safe new drugs to patients faster
  8. Most CEOs aren't abandoning neutrality on Trump – yet
  9. Many Republican mayors are advancing climate-friendly policies without saying so
  10. Colombia's presidential runoff will be a yet another referendum on peace
  11. US fertility is dropping. Here's why some experts saw it coming
  12. 5 Latino authors you should be reading now
  13. Scott Pruitt's desk is more impressive than yours
  14. New federal policy would hike student spacecraft costs, threatening technology education
  15. The federal government has long treated Nevada as a dumping ground, and it's not just Yucca Mountain
  16. Lab coats help students see themselves as future scientists
  17. Can this bird adapt to a warmer climate? Read the genes to find out
  18. NFL tells players patriotism is more important than protest – here's why that didn't work during WWI
  19. Mormons confront a history of Church racism
  20. Philip Roth's journey from 'enemy of the Jews' to great Jewish-American novelist
  21. The forgotten history of Memorial Day
  22. How Christian media is shaping American politics
  23. How one 'Rosie the Riveter' poster won out over all the others and became a symbol of female empowerment
  24. Why the Catholic church is 'hemorrhaging' priests
  25. Informants aren't spies – they're essential FBI tools
  26. A brief history of American winemaking
  27. Bendable concrete, with a design inspired by seashells, can make US infrastructure safer and more durable
  28. Self-cloning Asian tick causing worry in New Jersey
  29. New migraine drug: A neurologist explains how it works
  30. What's wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs
  31. Why we hate making financial decisions – and what to do about it
  32. Federal judge rules Trump's Twitter account is a public forum
  33. Venezuela is now a dictatorship
  34. Peer rejection isn't the culprit behind school shootings
  35. Some Sunnis voted for a Shiite – and 3 more takeaways from the Iraqi election
  36. What's in your genome? Parents-to-be want to know
  37. Why medicine leads the professions in suicide, and what we can do about it
  38. Women's higher education was pioneered by evangelical Christian leaders
  39. Would Rachel Carson eat organic?
  40. Could protest curb school violence? Lessons from the opt-out movement
  41. How 'media snacks' – from HQ Trivia to Candy Crush – are transforming the workplace
  42. Personality tests with deep-sounding questions provide shallow answers about the 'true' you
  43. How Stacey Abrams' 'black girl magic' turned Georgia a bit more blue
  44. Wall Street regulations need a facelift, not a minor Dodd-Frank makeover
  45. What are these 'levels' of autonomous vehicles?
  46. The right-wing origins of the Jerusalem soccer team that wants to add 'Trump' to its name
  47. Farmers and cropdusting pilots on the Great Plains worried about pesticide risks before 'Silent Spring'
  48. As more solar and wind come onto the grid, prices go down but new questions come up
  49. Why we need to rethink how to teach the Holocaust
  50. HIV lies dormant in brain, increasing risk of dementia, but how?