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One change that could help nursing homes recover from COVID-19 fears and become safer places for aging parents

  • Written by Bianca Frogner, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington
imageLow pay for nursing home workers has contributed to high staff turnover.BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Two weeks after the first U.S. case of COVID-19 was identified in Snohomish County, Washington, in early 2020, my dad had a stroke at his home just across Puget Sound. More COVID-19 cases were about to surface at a nearby skilled...

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Why student athletes need a new playbook to stay safe in the COVID-19 era

  • Written by Tamara Hew-Butler, Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, Wayne State University
imageHigh school water polo player Cami Rowan gets to work out in the home pool in Corona, Calif. on Feb. 18, 2021.Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty images

Kids are eager to play ball, and parents are eager to be back on the sidelines supporting them. But COVID-19 cases have risen in places where kids have been playing sports, complicating the issue.

Michigan,...

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How 'complementarianism' – the belief that God assigned specific gender roles – became part of evangelical doctrine

  • Written by Susan M. Shaw, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
imageSouthern Baptist women demonstrating against the faith's gender role doctrine in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2019.AP Photo/Julie Bennett

Prominent evangelical leader Beth Moore, who announced in March 2021 that she was leaving the Southern Baptist Convention over its treatment of women, among other issues, recently apologized for supporting the primacy...

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Long live the monarchy! British royals tend to survive a full three decades longer than their subjects

  • Written by S. Jay Olshansky, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago
imageHe who laughs last, lives longest?Leon Neal-WPA Pool/Getty Images

In the U.K. it is customary to receive a personalized message from the queen on your 100th birthday – such is the relative rarity of reaching the milestone.

Prince Philip was just a couple months off, dying at the age of 99 years and 10 months on April 9, 2021. The last notable...

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How the Supreme Court found its faith and put 'religious liberty' on a winning streak

  • Written by Steven K. Green, Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
imageJustices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have bolstered the conservative wing of the Supreme Court.Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images

The Supreme Court’s current term is winding down, but there are still several cases to be decided – and, as with most terms, a controversy over church-state matters looms.

Fulton vs. City of...

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We're creating 'humanized pigs' in our ultraclean lab to study human illnesses and treatments

  • Written by Christopher Tuggle, Professor of Animal Science, Iowa State University
imagePigs with human immune systems.Ahlea Forster, CC BY-SA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires all new medicines to be tested in animals before use in people. Pigs make better medical research subjects than mice, because they are closer to humans in size, physiology and genetic makeup.

In recent years, our team at Iowa State University has...

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Polen puede aumentar el riesgo de contraer COVID-19, ya sea que tengas alergias o no, según estudio

  • Written by Lewis Ziska, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University
imageEl polen puede suprimir la forma en que el sistema inmunológico humano responde a los virus.Callista Images via Getty Images

La exposición al polen puede aumentar el riesgo de desarrollar COVID-19, y no es solo un problema para las personas con alergias, muestra una nueva investigación. El fisiólogo vegetal Lewis Ziska,...

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A nutrition report card for Americans: Dark clouds, silver linings

  • Written by Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
imageLargely as a result of school nutrition programs, today's kids are eating more fruits and vegetables.Sol Stock via Getty Images

Many of the latest findings on the American diet are not encouraging. Almost half of U.S. adults, or 46%, have a poor-quality diet, with too little fish, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans, and too much salt,...

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Astrocyte cells in the fruit fly brain are an on-off switch that controls when neurons can change and grow

  • Written by Sarah DeGenova Ackerman, Postdoctoral Fellow, UO Institute of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon
imageThe colors in this microscope photo of a fruit fly brain show different types of neurons and the cells that surround them in the brain.Sarah DeGenova Ackerman, CC BY-ND

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

The big idea

Neuroplasticity – the ability of neurons to change their structure and function in response to...

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Derek Chauvin trial: 3 questions America needs to ask about seeking racial justice in a court of law

  • Written by Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
imageA demonstration outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on March 29, 2021, the day Derek Chauvin's trial began on charges he murdered George Floyd. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

There is a difference between enforcing the law and being the law. The world is now witnessing another in a long history of struggles for racial justice...

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  3. MLB's decision to drop Atlanta highlights the economic power companies can wield over lawmakers – when they choose to
  4. What inspired digital nomads to flee America's big cities may spur legions of remote workers to do the same
  5. Write ill of the dead? Obits rarely cross that taboo as they look for the positive in people's lives
  6. Proof of new physics from the muon's magnetic moment? Maybe not, according to a new theoretical calculation
  7. Pandemic recovery will take more than soaring growth – to fuel a more equitable economy, countries need to measure the well-being of people, too
  8. At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising clues
  9. 3 ways music educators can help students with autism develop their emotions
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 'Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration' – recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist
  13. Americans adopted fewer pets from shelters in 2020 as the supply of rescue animals fell
  14. Lil Nas X's dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization
  15. Anxious about going out into the world? You're not alone, but there's help
  16. Water being pumped into Tampa Bay could cause a massive algae bloom, putting fragile manatee and fish habitats at risk
  17. Faith in numbers: Trump held steady among believers at the ballot – it was the nonreligious vote he lost in 2020
  18. India prepares for Kumbh Mela, world's largest religious gathering, amid COVID-19 fears
  19. How worried should you be about coronavirus variants? A virologist explains his concerns
  20. Why you should expect more Suez-like supply chain disruptions and shortages at your local grocery store
  21. Bringing 'behavioral vaccines' to school: 5 ways educators can support student well-being
  22. Beverly Cleary refused to teach kids how to be good -- and generations of young readers fell in love with her rebel Ramona
  23. White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US
  24. Power imbalances are at the root of sexual harassment – but statements like Andrew Cuomo’s don't acknowledge that inconvenient fact
  25. Las sirenas no existen pero, ¿por qué nos fascinan tanto sus historias?
  26. Building trust among parents and teachers is key to reopening schools
  27. Here's how to help your kids break out of their pandemic bubble and transition back to being with others
  28. There's a surprising ending to all the 2020 election conflicts over absentee ballot deadlines
  29. No, the COVID-19 vaccine is not linked to the mark of the beast – but a first-century Roman tyrant probably is
  30. Vaccine guilt is good – as long it doesn’t stop you from getting a shot
  31. Embrace the unexpected: To teach AI how to handle new situations, change the rules of the game
  32. Misunderstanding addiction breeds despair and suffering – and, for alleged Atlanta shooter, violence
  33. For autocrats like Vladimir Putin, ruthless repression is often a winning way to stay in power
  34. Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down emissions fast – here's how
  35. Scientists need to become better communicators, but it's hard to measure whether training works
  36. Netflix’s big bet on foreign content and international viewers could upend the global mediascape – and change how people see the world
  37. Vape sellers are using popular music videos to promote e-cigarettes to young people – and it's working
  38. Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating 'ghost forests' that are visible from space
  39. Sports remain hostile territory for LGBTQ Americans
  40. The US is worried about its critical minerals supply chains – essential for electric vehicles, wind power and the nation's defense
  41. The 17th-century cloth merchant who discovered the vast realm of tiny microbes – an appreciation of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  42. An interactive visual database for American Sign Language reveals how signs are organized in the mind
  43. Myanmar's brutal military was once a force for freedom – but it's been waging civil war for decades
  44. Today's global economy runs on standardized shipping containers, as the Ever Given fiasco illustrates
  45. The US needs a macrogrid to move electricity from areas that make it to areas that need it
  46. How social media turns online arguments between teens into real-world violence
  47. A pandemic lesson: Older adults need to go back to their doctor and make preventive care a top priority
  48. Free college programs can enable more students to go to college, but it all depends on how the program is designed
  49. 1 in 3 college students face food insecurity – expanding SNAP benefits on campus will help stave off hunger
  50. How did humans evolve, and will we evolve more?