President Donald Trump is vowing to crack down on deceptive transshipment. That is the practice of moving cargo from one country to another by way of a third nation to evade trade restrictions.
As an international economist, I have researched the impact of imported textiles and apparel on those industries in North Carolina over the last 20 years....
Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key. As the Arctic warms, snow and ice melt, and...
Read more: Melting Arctic sends a message: Climate change is here in a big way
As biologists explore the variation across the genomes of living people, they’ve found evidence of evolution at work. Particular variants of genes increase or decrease in populations through time. Sometimes this...
Read more: Mother's milk holds the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery from the last ice age
As college tuition continues to rise at a staggering rate, people tend to worry about how much harder it becomes for students and families to pay for college.
As researchers who focus on higher education, we found a different reason to worry.
We...
Read more: When college tuition goes up, campus diversity goes down
Five women graduated from New York City’s Fire Academy on April 18, bringing the number of women serving in the Fire Department of New York to 72 – the highest in its history.
The FDNY’s 2018 graduating class also includes the first son to follow his mother into the...
Read more: Female firefighters defy old ideas of who can be an American hero
President Donald Trump recently visited West Virginia for the fourth time since taking office. He’s more popular there than in any other state, partly because of his avowed passion for coal and coal miners.
As he put it at a campaig...
Read more: Invoking noble coal miners is a mainstay of American politics
On beaches from North Carolina to Texas and throughout the wider Caribbean, one of nature’s great seasonal events is underway. Adult female sea turtles are crawling out of the ocean, digging deep holes in the sand and laying eggs. After about 60...
Read more: Beaches are becoming safer for baby sea turtles, but threats await them in the ocean
The health of children born to unauthorized immigrants – who are U.S. citizens – is affected by local and federal immigration policies. There are as many as 4 million children who have at least one parent who is undocumented.
Along...
Like any large company, a modern hospital has hundreds – even thousands – of workers using countless computers, smartphones and other electronic devices that are vulnerable to security breaches, data thefts and ransomware attacks. But hospitals are unlike...
Read more: Defending hospitals against life-threatening cyberattacks
The pretzel, one of the fastest-growing snack foods in the world, recently crossed a billion dollars a year in sales.
It has its own emoji, comes in flavors like pumpkin spice, mocha and banana, and is now available as an aromatherapy scent. It...
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