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The gender pay gap that no one is paying attention to

  • Written by Felice Klein, Assistant Professor of Management, Boise State University
imageMen are still sitting pretty when it comes to pay in the workplace. iStock/Getty Images

That women are paid less than male colleagues is a stubborn fact in the U.S. workplace.

As of July, women earned 84 cents for every dollar a man earned. It is a discrepancy that has garnered significant attention from scholars, the media and sex discrimination...

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Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a time – understanding this unusual strategy could help fight the disease they spread

  • Written by Geoff Attardo, Assistant Professor of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis
imageWhen they suck your blood they can leave behind the parasite that causes sleeping sickness.Patrick Robert/Sygma via Getty Images

Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That’s the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness in people;...

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What is the Islamic weekend?

  • Written by Chad Haines, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
imageWeekend in the Islamic world usually means Friday and Saturday.Jasmin Merdan/Moment Archive via Getty Images

Weekends just aren’t what they used to be, as the COVID-19 pandemic blurs the line between work weeks and leisure time. But the two-day weekend that many around the world consider to be a normal part of life is actually a very recent...

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Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasured

  • Written by Gunnar W. Schade, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
imageFlaring gas at an oil production site outside Williston, North Dakota.Andrew Burton/Getty Images

If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical pipes. That’s flaring – the mostly uncontrolled practice of burning off a...

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Kids need to wear masks when they go to school in person, and parents can help them get the hang of that

  • Written by Meg Sorg, Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
imageLike mother, like daughterPaul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

I’m a pediatric nursing professor with four young children. The youngest is 9 months old and the oldest is 9. My oldest will soon enter third grade, and his brother will be in second. My family plans to send them both back to their school for in-person...

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Lawmakers keen to break up 'big tech' like Amazon and Google need to realize the world has changed a lot since Microsoft and Standard Oil

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imageHouse lawmakers grilled these four CEOs on July 29.AP Photo

Big tech is back in the spotlight.

The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google testified before Congress on July 29 to defend their market dominance from accusations they’re stifling rivals. Lawmakers and regulators are increasingly talking about antitrust action and...

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¿Te imaginas la vida sin aguacate? Estos son los momentos en la historia en que pudo desaparecer

  • Written by Jeffrey Miller, Associate Professor, Hospitality Management, Colorado State University
imageLos aguacates necesitan ayuda para prosperar.https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/avocado-groves-san-diego-california-usa-c1900s-published-by-news-photo/463970581?adppopup=true

Dada la popularidad actual del aguacate, es difícil creer que estuvimos cerca de no tenerlos en nuestra vida.

En mi nuevo libro “El aguacate: una...

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Faith-based 'violence interrupters' stop gang shootings with promise of redemption for at-risk youth – not threats of jail

  • Written by Deanna Wilkinson, Associate Professor. Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University
imageA demonstrator heads to an anti-violence protest in Chicago, which has struggled with gun violence for decades, July 7, 2018.Jim Young/AFP via Getty Images)

The July 4 weekend was one of the deadliest in recent U.S. history, with 160 people, including several small children, killed by gun violence in Chicago, New York, Atlanta and beyond.

And the...

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How to hide from a drone – the subtle art of 'ghosting' in the age of surveillance

  • Written by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, University of San Diego
imageThe federal government has used military-grade border patrol drones like this one to monitor protests in US cities._ Jonathan Cutrer/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Drones of all sizes are being used by environmental advocates to monitor deforestation, by conservationists to track poachers, and by journalists and activists to document large protests. As a politica...

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Yes, kids can get COVID-19 – 3 pediatricians explain what's known about coronavirus and children

  • Written by Kathryn Moffett-Bradford, Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, West Virginia University
imageChildren are at risk of getting sick from coronavirus and need to practice social distancing and mask wearing too. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File

We arethree pediatricinfectious disease specialists who live and work in West Virginia. The West Virginia University health system serves 400,000 children and according to our internal data, to date, 2,520...

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  2. Many students with the potential to excel in STEM fields struggle in school
  3. Companies are struggling to engage with today's activists – a new survey explores why
  4. Cómo Jesús llegó a parecerse a un europeo blanco
  5. When a winner becomes a loser: Winston Churchill was kicked out of office in the British election of 1945
  6. 4 lawsuits that challenge Trump's federal agents in Portland test issues other cities will likely face
  7. At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and the world is 6,000 years old
  8. Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis
  9. What are the origins of cathedrals and chapels?
  10. Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic – but what does that cost?
  11. The road to electric vehicles with lower sticker prices than gas cars – battery costs explained
  12. The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire
  13. The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30: A cause for celebration during COVID-19?
  14. Síndrome de Guillain-Barré, raro trastorno neurológico relacionado con COVID-19
  15. Making coronavirus testing easy, accurate and fast is critical to ending the pandemic – the US response is falling far short
  16. The office is dead! Long live the office in a post-pandemic world
  17. Statues topple and a Catholic church burns as California reckons with its Spanish colonial past
  18. Why Hagia Sophia remains a potent symbol of spiritual and political authority
  19. The ADA isn't just about ramps -- over 30 years, it has profoundly changed the deaf community
  20. John Lewis traded the typical college experience for activism, arrests and jail cells
  21. Love avocados? Thank the toxodon
  22. 3 questions to ask yourself next time you see a graph, chart or map
  23. ¿Cómo el 'blanco' se convirtió en una metáfora de las cosas buenas?
  24. Why hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine don't block coronavirus infection of human lung cells
  25. How the images of John Lewis being beaten during 'Bloody Sunday' went viral
  26. Science elicits hope in Americans – its positive brand doesn't need to be partisan
  27. Disinformation campaigns are murky blends of truth, lies and sincere beliefs – lessons from the pandemic
  28. Online Christian pilgrimage: How a virtual tour to Lourdes follows a tradition of innovation
  29. Massive online open courses see exponential growth during COVID-19 pandemic
  30. What are political parties' platforms – and do they matter?
  31. How to make sure you're wearing your mask right
  32. Low-wage service workers are facing new emotional hazards in the workplace during COVID-19
  33. Is telehealth as good as in-person care? A telehealth researcher explains how to get the most out of remote health care
  34. The Constitution doesn't have a problem with mask mandates
  35. People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19
  36. Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits
  37. How other countries reopened schools during the pandemic – and what the US can learn from them
  38. How popular culture hobbles protest movements
  39. Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected
  40. Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be
  41. 'In a perfectly just republic,' Bella Abzug – born a century ago – would have been president
  42. Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here's how to make sense of them
  43. Russian cyberthreat extends to coronavirus vaccine research
  44. Social networks aim to erase hate but miss the target on guns
  45. Could employers and states mandate COVID-19 vaccinations? Here's what the courts have ruled
  46. Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education and incomes rise
  47. Colleges expect athletes to work but not to air any grievances – here's why that's wrong
  48. New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry
  49. How Taiwanese death rituals have adapted for families living in the US
  50. With fewer cars on US streets, now is the time to reinvent roadways and how we use them