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As extreme fires transform Alaska's boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns

  • Written by Jill Johnstone, Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Saskatchewan
imageA helicopter drops water on a forest fire in Alaska.Michael Risinger/U.S. Army National Guard, CC BY

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been burning more frequently and severely in these...

Read more: As extreme fires transform Alaska's boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and...

Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?

  • Written by Chris Robinson, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida
imageCOVID-19 survivors face not only physical symptoms. A large study recently showed that their mental health is affected, too. FG Trade/Getty Images

One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly referred to as COVID-19 long-haulers, suffered from neurologic or psychiatric disability six months after infection, a recent landmark study of...

Read more: Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?

French row over mosque isn't simply about state financing – it runs deep into Islamophobia and French secularism

  • Written by Carol Ferrara, Assistant Professor, Emerson College
imageThe storm over the construction of the grand mosque in Strasbourg has been long brewing.Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images

Among the anti-Muslim slogans discovered sprayed across an Islamic community center in western France on the morning of April 11, 2021, was a reference to a mosque that hasn’t even finished being built yet.

“EELV...

Read more: French row over mosque isn't simply about state financing – it runs deep into Islamophobia and...

How Baptists hold differing views on the resurrection of Christ and why this matters

  • Written by Jason Oliver Evans, Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, University of Virginia
imageResurrection of Christ depicted in 14th-century fresco in Chora Church, Istanbul, Turkey.LP7/Collections E+ via Getty Images

Early on April 4 morning, the following message appeared on the Twitter account of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the...

Read more: How Baptists hold differing views on the resurrection of Christ and why this matters

What former foster children went through when the COVID-19 pandemic closed college campuses

  • Written by Saralyn Ruff, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco
imageSome college students have no home to return to.Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

In the first two months of the pandemic, more than half of former foster children lost their jobs and nearly 40% experienced precarious living situations or homelessless,...

Read more: What former foster children went through when the COVID-19 pandemic closed college campuses

Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets

  • Written by Xavier Bofill De Ros, Research Fellow in RNA biology, National Institutes of Health
imageA complete human genome, seen here in pairs of chromosomes, offers a wealth of information, but it is hard connect genetics to traits or disease.HYanWong/Wikimedia Comons

The first draft of the human genome was published 20 years ago in 2001, took nearly three years and cost between US$500 million and $1 billion. The Human Genome Project has...

Read more: Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic...

Why Wall Street investors' trading California water futures is nothing to fear – and unlikely to work anyway

  • Written by Ellen Bruno, Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist, University of California, Berkeley
imageFutures won't affect whether there's water in the hose.Bettmann/Getty Images

Water is one of the world’s most vital resources.

So is there reason to freak out now that profit-hungry hedge funds and other investors can trade it like a barrel of oil or shares of Apple?

That’s exactly what CME Group recently did in California when it...

Read more: Why Wall Street investors' trading California water futures is nothing to fear – and unlikely to...

Nearly 60 million Americans don't drink their tap water, research suggests – here's why that's a public health problem

  • Written by Asher Rosinger, Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Anthropology, and Demography. Director, Water, Health, and Nutrition Laboratory, Penn State
imageThirsty?deepblue4you/E+ via Getty Images

Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It might make you think twice about whether to drink your tap water or serve it to your kids – especially if you also have experienced tap water problems in the past.

In a new study, my...

Read more: Nearly 60 million Americans don't drink their tap water, research suggests – here's why that's a...

Infrastructure? Or jobs? Controversy over name of Biden proposal highlights long tradition in politics

  • Written by Angela Bradbery, Frank Karel Endowed Chair in Public Interest Communications, University of Florida
imageBiden isn't the first politician to slap a catchy, but perhaps inaccurate, name on legislation.Evan Vucci/AP

President Joe Biden caught flak this month when he released his infrastructure plan and named it the American Jobs Plan.

Republicans said he was being misleading by stretching the definition of “infrastructure,” and they...

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The rise of female UFC fighters obscures profound exploitation, inequality

  • Written by Jennifer McClearen, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin
imageChina's Zhang Weili, on the right, has helped grow the popularity of the UFC in her native country.Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

The mixed martial arts pay-per-view event UFC 261 features two bouts that would have been unheard of just 10 years ago.

Russian-born Valentina Shevchenko will fight Jessica Andrade, a Brazilian and an out...

Read more: The rise of female UFC fighters obscures profound exploitation, inequality

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  4. Trump, defying custom, hasn't given the National Archives records of his speeches at political rallies
  5. Compassionate courage moves beyond 'cancel culture' to challenge systemic racism – but it's hard work
  6. 'Deprogramming' QAnon followers ignores free will and why they adopted the beliefs in the first place
  7. Is magic immoral? It played a role in the development of early Christianity
  8. Knoxville school shooting serves as stark reminder of a familiar – but preventable – threat
  9. Plants thrive in a complex world by communicating, sharing resources and transforming their environments
  10. US postpones Afghanistan troop withdrawal in hopes of sustaining peace process: 5 essential reads
  11. The EU wants a carbon tax on imports – but would it be the climate solution officials expect?
  12. Johnson Johnson vaccine suspension – a doctor explains what this means for you
  13. 143,518 US public library workers are keeping their communities informed, connected and engaged – but their jobs may be at risk
  14. How race-related stress could be driving educators of color away from the job
  15. One change that could help nursing homes recover from COVID-19 fears and become safer places for aging parents
  16. Why student athletes need a new playbook to stay safe in the COVID-19 era
  17. How 'complementarianism' – the belief that God assigned specific gender roles – became part of evangelical doctrine
  18. Long live the monarchy! British royals tend to survive a full three decades longer than their subjects
  19. How the Supreme Court found its faith and put 'religious liberty' on a winning streak
  20. We're creating 'humanized pigs' in our ultraclean lab to study human illnesses and treatments
  21. Polen puede aumentar el riesgo de contraer COVID-19, ya sea que tengas alergias o no, según estudio
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  23. Astrocyte cells in the fruit fly brain are an on-off switch that controls when neurons can change and grow
  24. Derek Chauvin trial: 3 questions America needs to ask about seeking racial justice in a court of law
  25. Northern Ireland, born of strife 100 years ago, again erupts in political violence
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  27. MLB's decision to drop Atlanta highlights the economic power companies can wield over lawmakers – when they choose to
  28. What inspired digital nomads to flee America's big cities may spur legions of remote workers to do the same
  29. Write ill of the dead? Obits rarely cross that taboo as they look for the positive in people's lives
  30. Proof of new physics from the muon's magnetic moment? Maybe not, according to a new theoretical calculation
  31. Pandemic recovery will take more than soaring growth – to fuel a more equitable economy, countries need to measure the well-being of people, too
  32. At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising clues
  33. 3 ways music educators can help students with autism develop their emotions
  34. Planning the best route with multiple destinations is hard even for supercomputers – a new approach breaks a barrier that's stood for nearly half a century
  35. What is mRNA? The messenger molecule that's been in every living cell for billions of years is the key ingredient in some COVID-19 vaccines
  36. 'Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration' – recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist
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  38. Lil Nas X's dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization
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  41. Faith in numbers: Trump held steady among believers at the ballot – it was the nonreligious vote he lost in 2020
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