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We can't save everything from climate change – here's how to make choices

  • Written by Benjamin Preston, Senior Policy Researcher; Program Director, Infrastructure Resilience and Environmental Policy, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Climate change is increasing flooding caused by seasonal 'king tides' in Florida and other coastal areas. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Recent reports have delivered sobering messages about climate change and its consequences. They include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C; the fourth...

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The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress

  • Written by Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Human Sciences, North Carolina State University
Fewer people getting SNAP benefits can lead to more skipped meals.maradon 333/Shutterstock.com

The Trump administration wants to tighten even further longstanding restrictions on who is eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The farm bill, which gets updated every five years or so, spells out who can participate in SNAP, the...

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Why paper maps still matter in the digital age

  • Written by Meredith Broussard, Assistant Professor of Journalism, New York University
Which is the right map for you?Icatnews/shutterstock.com

Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map. “I travel all over the world,” says Florence, the president of the international board...

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Are microbes causing your milk allergy?

  • Written by Cathryn Nagler, Bunning Food Allergy Professor, University of Chicago
Millions of Americans suffer from food allergies.Albina Glisic/Shutterstock.com

In the past 30 years, food allergieshave become increasingly common in the United States. Changes to human genetics can’t explain the sudden rise. That is because it takes many generations for changes to spread that widely within a population. Perhaps the...

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Shutdown's economic impact is a forceful reminder of why government matters

  • Written by Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
One of the more visible impacts of the shutdown is garbage piling up in parks.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

As the United States endures the longest shutdown in its history, Americans are getting a taste of life without government.

The absence of some services are clearly visible, such as a buildup of trash at national parks or longer lines at airport...

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Lessons from 'Spider-Man': How video games could change college science education

  • Written by Aaron W. Harrison, Teaching and Research Fellow, Chapman University
The new 'Spider-Man' video game isn't just fun and games – it's also science.Marvel / Insomniac Games

Like many people over the holidays, I spent some time – maybe too much – playing one of the most popular and best reviewed video games of 2018: “Spider-Man.”

While I thought I’d be taking a break from chemistry...

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Nazis and communists tried it too: Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades

  • Written by Bradley W. Hart, Assistant Professor of Media, Communications and Journalism, California State University, Fresno
A Facebook ad referenced in the indictment charging Russians in a plot to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.AP/Jon Elswick

Americans have spent the last 18 months wondering about Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.

Charges have already been filed against 12 Russian intelligence officers for interfering with the 2016...

Read more: Nazis and communists tried it too: Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades

It's cold! A physiologist explains how to keep your body feeling warm

  • Written by JohnEric Smith, Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
It's all about holding on to the heat you have.Jason Rosewel/Unsplash, CC BY

Whether waiting for a bus, playing outside or walking the dog – during the colder winter season, everyone is looking for ways to stay warm. Luckily, the process your body uses to break down foods serves as an internal heater.

But when the weather is cold, some...

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Howard Thurman – the Baptist minister who had a deep influence on MLK

  • Written by Paul Harvey, Professor of American History, University of Colorado
Thurman taught King Jr. that spiritual cultivation was necessary to take on the intense work of social activism.AP File Photo

For most African-Americans who grew up with the legacy of segregation and violence, making space for introspection was difficult. Martin Luther King Jr., however, learned to integrate spiritual growth with social...

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A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean

  • Written by Matthew Savoca, Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
Teenager Alex Weber and friends collected nearly 40,000 golf balls hit into the ocean from a handful of California golf courses.Alex Weber, CC BY-ND

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gr...

Read more: A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean

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  2. Martin Luther King Jr., union man
  3. What a 16th-century mystic can teach us about making good decisions
  4. Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains
  5. How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement
  6. Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health
  7. What’s an index fund?
  8. Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?
  9. Data breaches are inevitable – here's how to protect yourself anyway
  10. Is winter miserable for wildlife?
  11. 3 ways Trump could disrupt health care for the better
  12. Razor burned: Why Gillette's campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark
  13. El juicio al Chapo evidencia por qué un muro no detendrá el tráfico de drogas entre México y Estados Unidos
  14. A new way to curb nitrogen pollution: Regulate fertilizer producers, not just farmers
  15. Trump's interpreters for Putin meetings face ethical dilemma
  16. In 'airports of the future,' everything new is old again
  17. The biggest nonprofit media outlets are thriving but smaller ones may not survive
  18. Want better tips? Go for gold
  19. El Chapo trial shows why a wall won't stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border
  20. Brexit: An ‘escape room’ with no escape
  21. Garbage collection in Syria is crucial to fighting the Islamic State
  22. States are on the front lines of fighting inequality
  23. Why victims of Catholic priests need to hear more than confessions
  24. Ulterior motives may lurk behind new debit card for federal student loan borrowers
  25. Trump's reference to Wounded Knee evokes the dark history of suppression of indigenous religions
  26. Leaders always 'manufacture' crises, in politics and business
  27. New debit card for federal student loan borrowers could save money, but concerns linger
  28. Toward a circular economy: Tackling the plastics recycling problem
  29. Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts
  30. Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?
  31. Guatemala in crisis after president bans corruption investigation into his government
  32. The shutdown will harm the health and safety of Americans, even after it's long over
  33. How to train the body's own cells to combat antibiotic resistance
  34. Why do Muslim women wear a hijab?
  35. To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented public lands
  36. Why privatizing the VA or other essential health services is a bad idea
  37. 3 reasons to pay attention to the LA teacher strike
  38. The Prohibition-era origins of the modern craft cocktail movement
  39. Memories of eating influence your next meal – new research pinpoints brain cells involved
  40. Change your phone settings so Apple, Google can't track your movements
  41. The 2019 government shutdown is just the latest reason why poor people can't bank on the safety net
  42. How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses
  43. Chicago, New York discounted most public input in expanding bike systems
  44. Who are the federal workers affected by the shutdown? 5 questions answered
  45. Acute flaccid myelitis: What is the polio-like illness paralyzing US children?
  46. If Trump declares a national emergency, could Congress or the courts reverse it?
  47. Science gets shut down right along with the federal government
  48. How Viktor Orban degraded Hungary's weak democracy
  49. 3 ways to be smart on social media
  50. The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices