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Will going out in the cold give you a cold?

  • Written by Libby Richards, Associate Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
imageViruses spread easier during the winter than other times of the year, but being outside isn't the main cause of transmission.Christopher Kimmel via Getty Images

Many of us have heard: “Don’t go outside without a coat; you’ll catch a cold.”

That’s not exactly true. As with many things, the reality is more complicated....

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Was Jesus really born in Bethlehem? Why the Gospels disagree over the circumstances of Christ's birth

  • Written by Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the New Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary
imageA doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem.David Silverman/Getty Images

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago.

Yet the New Testament...

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The coronavirus vaccine: A doctor answers 5 questions

  • Written by Jason R. McKnight MD, MS, FAAFP, Clinical Assistant Professor, Primary Care and Population Health, Texas A&M University
imageWorkers prepare to ship the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from the company's manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Morry Gash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Editor’s Note: With the Food and Drug Administration issuing emergency use authorization for a vaccine to limit the spread of coronavirus, you might have questions about what this means for...

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Racial stereotypes drive students of color away from STEM, but many still persist

  • Written by Ebony O. McGee, Assistant Professor of Education, Diversity and Urban Schooling, Vanderbilt University
imageMany Black and Hispanic STEM students leave the science field because of the 'racial fatigue' of having to deal with stereotypes. Jcomp via iStock/Getty Images Plus

Dominique, a Black electrical engineering doctoral student, found herself in an awkward situation in the lounge of a hotel where she had been attending a conference on science.

A white...

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What vaccine distribution planners can learn from Amazon and Walmart

  • Written by Tinglong Dai, Associate Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
imageEfficient shipping and storage could prevent a lot of wasted vaccines. AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool

The initial rollout of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has begun, and vaccines are shipping across the U.S. Demand for COVID-19 vaccines will outpace supply for the foreseeable future. Yet experts have warned that a substantial proportion of these...

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Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce without males

  • Written by Mercedes Burns, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageGetting the job done. A female Asian water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus) produced a daughter (left) without the assistance of a male. Skip Brown/Smithsonian’s National Zoo

An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked. Why? Her mother had never been with a male water dragon. Through...

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COVID-19 further exposes inequalities in the global financial system

  • Written by Ramya Vijaya, Professor of Economics, Stockton University
imageA grant from the Chinese government will make way for a multimillion-dollar fishing port complex in Accra, Ghana.Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

To stem the economic fallout from COVID-19, developed countries have injected an unprecedented US$9 trillion into their economies.

The International Monetary Fund has recommended sustained fiscal...

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Armenians displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh fear their medieval churches will be destroyed

  • Written by Christina Maranci, Professor and Department Chair, Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture, Tufts University
imageThe Ghazanchetsots Cathedral was damaged earlier this year during fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan.Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images

A six-week war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region in the South Caucasus, ended on Nov. 9 after Russia brokered a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Under the deal, several ethnically Armenian...

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Ancient Greek desire to resolve civil strife resonates today – but Athenian justice would be a 'bitter pill' in modern America

  • Written by Joel Christensen, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
imageIncreasingly, Americans seem to have irreconcilable differences over the pandemic, the economy – even the result of the 2020 election.Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

America’s divisions are old. Politically and socially, they are rooted in grudges and ideological vengeance that goes back generations, to the New Deal e...

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It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here's why AI is so power-hungry

  • Written by Kate Saenko, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
imageData centers like this Google facility in Iowa use copious amounts of electricity.Chad Davis/Flickr, CC BY-SA

This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type...

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  2. Pardon me? An ethicist's guide to what is proper when it comes to presidential pardons
  3. On the first day of Christmas...teachers got a legal headache over blurring the line between church and state
  4. Who is doing all those COVID-19 tests? Why you should care about medical laboratory professionals
  5. A hospital that prescribes free nutritious food to families who need more than medical care
  6. Puerto Rico wants statehood – but only Congress can make it the 51st state in the United States
  7. Why getting back to 'normal' doesn't have to involve police in schools
  8. W.E.B. Du Bois embraced science to fight racism as editor of NAACP's magazine The Crisis
  9. Taking fish out of fish feed can make aquaculture a more sustainable food source
  10. Mermaids aren't real – but they've fascinated people around the world for ages
  11. My university will be getting COVID-19 vaccines soon – here's how my team will get doses into arms
  12. Masks and mandates: How individual rights and government regulation are both necessary for a free society
  13. From the White House to ancient Athens: Hypocrisy is no match for partisanship
  14. Biden's chance to revive US tradition of inserting ethics in foreign policy
  15. What is a neural network? A computer scientist explains
  16. Why do so few clergy serve in Congress?
  17. Arecibo telescope's fall is indicative of global divide around funding science infrastructure
  18. The Marshall Islands could be wiped out by climate change – and their colonial history limits their ability to save themselves
  19. Why paying people to get the coronavirus vaccine won't work
  20. Scientists suggest US embassies were hit with high-power microwaves – here's how the weapons work
  21. Why does the Electoral College exist, and how does it work? 5 essential reads
  22. Why shielding businesses from coronavirus liability is a bad idea
  23. 5 years after Paris: How countries’ climate policies match up to their promises, and who's aiming for net zero emissions
  24. Oregon just decriminalized all drugs – here's why voters passed this groundbreaking reform
  25. Why do scientists care about worms?
  26. America's hidden world of handmade pornography
  27. Why we're so bad at counting the calories we eat, drink or burn
  28. Why the Virgin of Guadalupe is more than a religious icon to Catholics in Mexico
  29. Latinos are especially reluctant to get flu shots – how a small clinic in Indiana found ways to overcome that
  30. We discovered a 115,000-year-old iguana nest fossil in the Bahamas
  31. Kids want to learn more about mental illness and how to cope with parents who live with it
  32. Foreign policy is Biden's best bet for bipartisan action, experts say – but GOP is unlikely to join him on climate change
  33. Workers are looking for direction from management – and any map is better than no map
  34. Bitter battles between stinkbugs and carnivorous mice could hold clues for controlling human pain
  35. Fragments of energy – not waves or particles – may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe
  36. The Electoral College system isn't 'one person, one vote'
  37. Daily DIY sniff checks could catch many cases of COVID-19
  38. 4 ways to close the COVID-19 racial health gap
  39. Computer science jobs pay well and are growing fast. Why are they out of reach for so many of America's students?
  40. When can children get the COVID-19 vaccine? 5 questions parents are asking
  41. Can Joe Biden win the transition?
  42. In 'The Queen's Gambit' and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life
  43. The iconic American inventor is still a white male – and that's an obstacle to race and gender inclusion
  44. Nigerians got their abusive SARS police force abolished – but elation soon turned to frustration
  45. The Taliban are megarich – here's where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan
  46. How remote learning is making educational inequities worse
  47. Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth's atmosphere, but that could end with warming and development
  48. Genetic engineering transformed stem cells into working mini-livers that extended the life of mice with liver disease
  49. We scanned the DNA of 8,000 people to see how facial features are controlled by genes
  50. From permafrost microbes to survivor songbirds – research projects are also victims of COVID-19 pandemic