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Why can't the IRS just send Americans a refund – or a bill?

  • Written by Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
imageU.S. taxpayers spend more than $2 billion annually in tax preparation fees.Nora Carol Photography/Getty Images

The Internal Revenue Service has postponed the April 15 tax filing deadline to May 17. If taxpayers need even more time to file federal returns, the agency added, they can request an extension until Oct. 15.

“This continues to be a...

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Your brain thinks – but how?

  • Written by Tyler Daniel Anderson-Sieg, Doctoral Student in Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina
imageLook! It's Superman. Or is it?Yogi Purnama/Unsplashimage

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

How does your brain understand things? - Shubhra S., age 8

A roaring sound fills the air and a small object zips through the sky. People in a...

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Biden immigration overhaul would reunite families split up by deportation

  • Written by Robert McKee Irwin, Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis
imageA mother who was deported to Mexico reconnects with her daughters at a family reunification event put on at the U.S.-Mexico border, November 2017. Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

Hundreds of thousands of immigrant families have been separated by deportation from the United States, in many cases with a parent on one side of the border and children on...

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To help insects, make them welcome in your garden – here's how

  • Written by Brian Lovett, Postdoctoral Researcher in Mycology, West Virginia University
imageAn insect-friendly wildflower swath at California State University, Fullerton's arboretum.TDLucas5000/Flickr, CC BY

As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and making plans. Meanwhile, as the weather warms, common garden insects such as bees, beetles and butterflies will emerge from underground burrows or...

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Why Christianity put away its dancing shoes – only to find them again centuries later

  • Written by Kathryn Dickason, Visiting Scholar, School of Religion, University of Southern California
imageMedieval Christians believed that heaven was a realm filled with dancing. Italian painter Fra Angelico's 'Last Judgment' showing dancing angels.Fra Angelico's Last Judgment/Wikimedia

In the PBS documentary series “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows how African Americans introduced...

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Jocks and frat boys more likely than other men in college to visit 'slut pages' and post nude images without consent

  • Written by Megan K. Maas, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University
imageAbout 60 percent of men in fraternities have admitted to visiting 'slut pages.'Tero Vesalainen/iStock via Getty Images

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Over half of men in college fraternities or who play school sports say they have visited a secret webpage or social media account set up to post or view...

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Why Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month is really something to celebrate this year

  • Written by Franklin G. Berger, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina
imageA man holds a photograph of Chadwick Boseman, who died from colon cancer at age 43. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. I recognize that you’re not likely to throw a party to celebrate, since most of us are not comfortable talking about our butts and our bowel habits. However, there really...

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'Sex addiction' isn't a justification for killing, or really an addiction – it reflects a person's own moral misgivings about sex

  • Written by Joshua B. Grubbs, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University
imageFeeling 'addicted to sex' has more to do with one's values than frequency of behavior.Terraxplorer/E+ via Getty Images

A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas in the greater Atlanta area on March 16 and shot dead eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The following day, Cherokee County sheriff’s officials...

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What is a hate crime? The narrow legal definition makes it hard to charge and convict

  • Written by Jeannine Bell, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
imageA memorial to the Asian American women gunned down at Gold Spa, in Atlanta, Ga., on March 18, 2021. Megan Varner/Getty Images

A white man travels to one business and kills several workers. He then kills more people at a similar business.

Six of the eight people he killed are Asian women, leading many people to call for him to be charged under the ne...

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6 tratamientos que reciben pacientes COVID para sobrevivir, de anticuerpos a remdesivir

  • Written by William G. Bain, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
imageNuevos tratamientos para el COVID-19 se usan en distintas fases de la enfermedad, incluso hay tratamientos que pueden mantenerte fuera del hospital.Juan Monino via Getty Images

Hace un año, cuando las autoridades sanitarias de Estados Unidos emitieron su primera advertencia de que el COVID-19 causaría graves “trastornos en la...

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