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Could employers and states mandate COVID-19 vaccinations? Here's what the courts have ruled

  • Written by Debbie Kaminer, Law Professor, Baruch College, CUNY
imageThe federal government is fast-tracking some potential coronavirus vaccines currently in clinical trials.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

A safe and effective vaccine could end the coronavirus pandemic, but for it to succeed, enough people will have to get inoculated.

Recent polls suggest that the U.S. is far from ready. Most surveys have found that onlyabout...

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Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education and incomes rise

  • Written by Shervin Assari, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
imageSix of the author's studies show health disparities due to both race and gender.Getty Images / Juanmonino

Are you a highly educated and relatively wealthy Black man in the U.S.? Studies that we have done and also those by others show that you are at increased risk of discrimination and depression. Our research on the intersection of race and gender...

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Colleges expect athletes to work but not to air any grievances – here's why that's wrong

  • Written by Erin Hatton, Associate Professor of Sociology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageThe world of college athletics promises many opportunities to young players, but at what cost?Thomas Barwick/GettyImages

When Northwestern University created its 2013 football team handbook, the guide included a list of 50 “Twitter tips” for the athletes.

Tip #10 told the players not to use Twitter as “an outlet to complain about...

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New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry

  • Written by Alison Cooke, Ph.D. Candidate of Psychology, North Carolina State University
imageAfrican American students are disproportionately punished, starting in preschool.Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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

The big idea

College students who are training to become teachers are 36% more likely to mistakenly believe that a Black child is angry when that child...

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How Taiwanese death rituals have adapted for families living in the US

  • Written by Pei-Lin Yu, Associate Professor, Boise State University
imagePriests in Taiwan perform a ritual for the souls of the dead.Alberto Buzzola/LightRocket via Getty Images

Taiwanese people living in the United States face a dilemma when loved ones die. Many families worry that they might not be able to carry out proper rituals in their new homeland.

As a biracial Taiwanese-American archaeologist living in Idaho...

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With fewer cars on US streets, now is the time to reinvent roadways and how we use them

  • Written by Kevin J. Krizek, Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder
imageNew priorities in Boulder, Colo.Kevin Krizek, CC BY-ND

Sticking closer to home because of COVID-19 has shown many people what cities can be like with less traffic, noise, congestion and pollution. Roads and parking lots devoted to cars take up a lot of land. For example, in Phoenix, Los Angeles and New York City these spaces account for over...

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ALS scientific breakthrough: Diabetes drug metformin shows promise in mouse study for a common type of ALS

  • Written by Laura P.W. Ranum, Director, Center for NeuroGenetics and Kitzman Family Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida
imageA man with ALS uses a head-mounted laser pointer to communicate with his wife, by pointing to letters and words on a communication board.Fezcat via Wikipedia.com

An FDA-approved diabetes drug shows early signs of promise against the most common genetic form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a devastating neurological condition that causes...

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Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
imageRosalind Franklin at age 25.Elliott & Fry/© National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND

What do coal, viruses and DNA have in common? The structures of each – the predominant power source of the early 20th century, one of the most remarkable forms of life on Earth and the master molecule of heredity – were all elucidated by...

Read more: Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her...

In Kashmir, military lockdown and pandemic combined are one giant deadly threat

  • Written by Ifat Gazia, Doctoral Student in Communications and Film, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageKashmiri commuters at an Indian military checkpoint in the city of Srinagar, July 17, 2020. Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images

COVID-19 is taking a terrible toll worldwide. But in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir, it’s only the latest indignity in a 73-year cycle of oppression, militarization and scarcity.

At least, that’s what the...

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Electoral College benefits whiter states, study shows

  • Written by William Blake, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageA congressional staffer opens the boxes containing the Electoral College ballots in January 2017.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

States can force members of the Electoral College to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state’s presidential primary, the Supreme Court recently ruled. The July 6 decision removed one of the two reasons why...

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  1. COVID-19 has ravaged American newsrooms – here's why that matters
  2. How local governments can attract companies that will help keep their economies afloat during COVID-19
  3. Why Indian American spelling bee success is more than just an endearing story
  4. Mandatory face masks might lull people into taking more coronavirus risks
  5. John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belonged to a long tradition of religious leaders in the civil rights struggle
  6. Twitter hack exposes broader threat to democracy and society
  7. Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest – which is why soda taxes could help reduce gaping health inequalities
  8. The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
  9. To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap
  10. Video: An infectious disease expert explains the results from Moderna's latest vaccine trials
  11. Why Congress can't curb Trump's power to commute Stone's sentence and pardon others
  12. Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas
  13. Pro-choice movement's big win at Supreme Court might really have been a loss
  14. How the coronavirus pandemic became Florida's perfect storm
  15. Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines – which means putting ethics before profits
  16. Until teachers feel safe, widespread in-person K-12 schooling may prove impossible in US
  17. Contact tracing's long, turbulent history holds lessons for COVID-19
  18. Research on voting by mail says it's safe – from fraud and disease
  19. Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, Trump: The risks and rewards of corporate activism
  20. Zounds! What the fork are minced oaths? And why are we still fecking using them today?
  21. Protestantism's troubling history with white supremacy in the US
  22. Ransomware criminals are targeting US universities
  23. How brains do what they do is more complex than what anatomy on its own suggests
  24. An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet
  25. Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
  26. A new anti-platelet drug shows potential for treating blood vessel clots in heart attacks, strokes and, possibly, COVID-19
  27. How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer
  28. The Electoral College is surprisingly vulnerable to popular vote changes
  29. Personality can predict who's a rule-follower and who flouts COVID-19 social distancing guidelines
  30. The Fed's independence helped it save the US economy in 2008 – the CDC needs the same authority today
  31. With kids spending more waking hours on screens than ever, here's what parents need to worry about
  32. Kids' school schedules have never matched parents' work obligations and the pandemic is making things worse
  33. How effective does a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine need to be to stop the pandemic? A new study has answers
  34. Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets
  35. Through protest and resistance, Lumbees seek to reconcile past with present
  36. A restart of nuclear testing offers little scientific value to the US and would benefit other countries
  37. 4 things students should know about their health insurance and COVID-19 before heading to college this fall
  38. Duckweed is an incredible, radiation-fighting astronaut food – and by changing how it is grown, we made it better
  39. Why does white always go first in chess?
  40. An argument for gene drive technology to genetically control insects like mosquitoes and locusts
  41. An argument for gene drive technology to genetically control populations of insects like mosquitoes and locusts
  42. Why Buddhist monks collect alms and visit households even in times of social distancing
  43. As coronavirus cases spike in the South, Northeast seems to have the pandemic under control - here's what changed
  44. COVID-19 has resurrected single-use plastics – are they back to stay?
  45. Is bar soap as gross as millennials say? Not really, and we're all covered with microbes anyway
  46. Biases in algorithms hurt those looking for information on health
  47. What US medical supply chain can learn from the fashion industry
  48. Airlines got travelers comfortable about flying again once before – but 9/11 and a virus are a lot different
  49. Mask resistance during a pandemic isn't new – in 1918 many Americans were 'slackers'
  50. 5 ways higher education can be seen as hostile to women of color