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Should the president pick the attorney general?

  • Written by Joshua Holzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
imageWilliam Barr walks through Lafayette Park before demonstrators were cleared by federal police on June 1, 2020.Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

Attorney General William Barr recently announced, late on a Friday, that Geoffrey Berman was “stepping down after two-and-a-half years of service as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New...

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This simple model shows the importance of wearing masks and social distancing

  • Written by Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Director of the Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research, University of Connecticut
imageHospital and nursing staff wear face masks and observes social distancing guidelines at an event in the U.K.Ben Birchall /Getty Images

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

With the advent of an infectious disease outbreak, epidemiologists and public health officials quickly try to forecast deaths and infections using...

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Rethinking what research means during a global pandemic

  • Written by Ann M. Cheney, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine Population and Public Health, University of California, Riverside
imageFarmworkers are essential workers who must decide every morning whether they will leave their home to work the fields to provide for their families and the nation.John Moore/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic....

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A massive Saharan dust plume is moving into the southeast US, bringing technicolor sunsets and suppressing tropical storms

  • Written by Scott Denning, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
imageA vast plume of Saharan dust blankets Havana, Cuba, June 24, 2020.Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

A hot desert wind is carrying a massive cloud of Saharan dust into the southern United States this week. Dust plumes from the Sahara routinely blow westward across the Atlantic at this time of year, but this event is a doozy – by some measures,...

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100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern

  • Written by Mark Serreze, Research Professor of Geography and Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThis Arctic heat wave has been unusually long-lived. The darkest reds on this map of the Arctic are areas that were more than 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the spring of 2020 compared to the recent 15-year average.Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory

The Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures soaring to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on...

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Developing resilience is an important tool to help you deal with coronavirus and the surge in cases

  • Written by Keith M. Bellizzi, Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
imageCOVID-19, says the author, has had a significant impact on the mental health of millions of Americans.Getty Images / Jules Ingall

We’re all exhausted and pushed to the limit by months of social distancing, and the recent news that cases are climbing in many states is especially scary.

While you may feel like ripping off your mask and heading...

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How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans

  • Written by Amy Y. Vittor, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
imagePangolins have been found with covonaviruses that are genetically similar to the one afflicting humans today.Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images

The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats and pangolins, has brought the risk of viruses that jump from wildlife to humans into stark focus.

These leaps often happen at the edges of the...

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Gene therapy and CRISPR strategies for curing blindness (Yes, you read that right)

  • Written by Hemant Khanna, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
imageResearchers are now testing treatments for several kinds of visual impairment. BRIAN MITCHELL / Getty Images

In recent months, even as our attention has been focused on the coronavirus outbreak, there have been a slew of scientific breakthroughs in treating diseases that cause blindness.

Researchers at U.S.-based Editas Medicine and Ireland-based...

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Days with both extreme heat and extreme air pollution are becoming more common – which can't be a good thing for global health

  • Written by Yangyang Xu, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
imageMuch of India experiences both extreme heat and extreme air pollution, as seen in this photo of the Akshardham Hindu temple. Days with both are going to increase. Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images

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Days of extreme high heat and extreme air pollution are both increasing...

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Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues

  • Written by Tyina Steptoe, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona
imageRapper YG, center in white, at a June 7 protest over the death of George Floyd.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

The sound of Public Enemy’s 1989 song “Fight the Power” blared as face-masked protesters in Washington, D.C. broke into a spontaneous rendition of the electric slide dance near the White House.

It was the morning of June 14,...

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  2. Most white parents don't talk about racism with their kids
  3. Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview
  4. Prisoners in US suffering dementia may hit 200,000 within the next decade – many won't even know why they are behind bars
  5. Economic policies can induce people to quarantine safely during the pandemic
  6. A selective retreat from trade with China makes sense for the United States
  7. 5 things you should do right now to fight the rising number of COVID-19 cases
  8. What doctors know about lingering symptoms of coronavirus
  9. Why safely reopening high school sports is going to be a lot harder than opening college and pro ball
  10. How fake accounts constantly manipulate what you see on social media – and what you can do about it
  11. A massive public health effort eradicated smallpox but scientists are still studying the deadly virus
  12. 1 in 10 HBCUs were financially fragile before COVID-19 endangered all colleges and universities
  13. Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents
  14. Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future pandemics
  15. President Trump revives J. Edgar Hoover's tyrannical playbook
  16. To fight US racism, research prescribes a nationwide healing process
  17. When Supreme Court justices defy expectations
  18. Can people spread the coronavirus if they don't have symptoms? 5 questions answered about asymptomatic COVID-19
  19. COVID-19 is laying waste to many US recycling programs
  20. Islamic State militants incite attacks, gloat at US protests and pandemic deaths
  21. America's Black female mayors face dual crises of COVID-19 and protests – but these women are used to uphill battles
  22. Islamic State calls for followers to spread coronavirus, exploit pandemic and protests
  23. The psychological trauma of nurses started long before coronavirus
  24. Crop pathogens are more adaptable than previously thought
  25. Does coronavirus aid to news outlets undermine journalistic credibility?
  26. 5 reasons to make sure recess doesn't get short shrift when school resumes in person
  27. George Floyd protests aren't just anti-racist – they are anti-authoritarian
  28. Self-driving taxis could be a setback for those with different needs – unless companies embrace accessible design now
  29. Journalists believe news and opinion are separate, but readers can't tell the difference
  30. What some foundations are doing differently because of the coronavirus pandemic: 4 questions answered
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  33. Devil in the detail of SCOTUS ruling on workplace bias puts LGBTQ rights and religious freedom on collision course
  34. What the Supreme Court's DACA ruling means for undocumented students and the colleges and universities they attend
  35. Latest legal hurdle to removing Confederate statues in Virginia: The wishes of their long-dead white donors
  36. From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre
  37. The right way to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic
  38. A field guide to Trump's dangerous rhetoric
  39. 5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic now than in 1918
  40. Holding on and holding still, a son photographs his father with Alzheimer's
  41. Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade
  42. We caught bacteria from the most pristine air on earth to help solve a climate modeling mystery
  43. National survey shows that social service nonprofits are trying to help more people on smaller budgets as the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn unfold
  44. Supreme Court ruling on Dreamers sends a clear message to the White House: You have to tell the truth
  45. Domestic abusers use tech that connects as a weapon during coronavirus lockdowns
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  48. Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at 'black commons' and collective ownership?
  49. 5 reasons police officers should have college degrees
  50. The Supreme Court decision to grant protections to LGBT workers is an important expansion of the Civil Rights Act