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Ransomware criminals are targeting US universities

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
imageCybercriminals view colleges as high-value targets. Issaro Prakalung / EyeEm/GettyImages

As COVID-19 cases in the U.S. continue to climb, government and higher education leaders have been focused on doing what it takes to protect campus communities from the global pandemic.

But college and university leaders would be wise if they were just as...

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How brains do what they do is more complex than what anatomy on its own suggests

  • Written by Salvatore Domenic Morgera, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, University of South Florida
imageScientists are still piecing together the puzzle of how the brain works.Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images

How the brain works remains a puzzle with only a few pieces in place. Of these, one big piece is actually a conjecture: that there’s a relationship between the physical structure of the brain and its functionality.

The brain’s...

Read more: How brains do what they do is more complex than what anatomy on its own suggests

An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet

  • Written by Benjamin Z. Houlton, Professor of Global Environmental Studies, Chancellor's Fellow and Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis
imageWeathering of rocks like these basalt formations in Idaho triggers chemical processes that remove carbon dioxide from the air.Matthew Dillon/Flickr, CC BY

Why has Earth’s climate remained so stable over geological time? The answer just might rock you.

Rocks, particularly the types created by volcanic activity, play a critical role in keeping...

Read more: An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet

Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land

  • Written by Dwanna L. McKay, Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College
imageDelegates from 34 Native tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, 1880.National Archives

Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that much of the eastern part of the state belongs to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. They wonder whether they must now pay taxes to or be...

Read more: Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land

A new anti-platelet drug shows potential for treating blood vessel clots in heart attacks, strokes and, possibly, COVID-19

  • Written by Xiaoping Du, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago
imageCardiovascular disease is the leading source of death worldwide.PM Images / Getty Images

Clots obstruct blood vessels and can be deadly. They cause heart attack, stroke and are also a major problem in severe cases of COVID-19 patients. Treating clots with available drugs, however, can cause blood vessel leaking and bleeding, which can also be...

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How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer

  • Written by Justin Silverman, Assistant Professor of Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
imageInfection fatality rate is simply the number of deaths divided by the number of infections, but finding those numbers is harder than it might seem.AP Photo/John Minchillo

Early reports from January painted a grim picture about just how deadly the coronavirus was. Initially, the World Health Organization estimated that the percentage of infected...

Read more: How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are...

The Electoral College is surprisingly vulnerable to popular vote changes

  • Written by Steven Heilman, Assistant Professor RTPC of Mathematics, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageStaff of the House of Representatives review Illinois' Electoral College vote report in January 2017.Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, changing just 269 votes in Florida from George W. Bush to Al Gore would have changed the outcome of the entire national election. Similarly narrow results have happened...

Read more: The Electoral College is surprisingly vulnerable to popular vote changes

Personality can predict who's a rule-follower and who flouts COVID-19 social distancing guidelines

  • Written by James M. Honeycutt, Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University; Lecturer in Executive Education, University of Texas at Dallas
imageWho will wait on the checkout line footprints and who will rage against them?Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

As states struggle to get the COVID-19 balance right – between eased restrictions and rising infection rates – it falls to individuals to abide by mask-wearing rules and to maintain six feet of distance between...

Read more: Personality can predict who's a rule-follower and who flouts COVID-19 social distancing guidelines

The Fed's independence helped it save the US economy in 2008 – the CDC needs the same authority today

  • Written by Mitchel Y. Abolafia, Professor Of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageTrump with two of his top health advisers in May. AP Photo/Alex Brandon

The image of scientists standing beside governors, mayors or the president has become common during the pandemic. Even the most cynical politician knows this public health emergency cannot be properly addressed without relying on the scientific knowledge possessed by these...

Read more: The Fed's independence helped it save the US economy in 2008 – the CDC needs the same authority...

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  1. With kids spending more waking hours on screens than ever, here's what parents need to worry about
  2. Kids' school schedules have never matched parents' work obligations and the pandemic is making things worse
  3. How effective does a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine need to be to stop the pandemic? A new study has answers
  4. Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets
  5. Through protest and resistance, Lumbees seek to reconcile past with present
  6. A restart of nuclear testing offers little scientific value to the US and would benefit other countries
  7. 4 things students should know about their health insurance and COVID-19 before heading to college this fall
  8. Duckweed is an incredible, radiation-fighting astronaut food – and by changing how it is grown, we made it better
  9. Why does white always go first in chess?
  10. An argument for gene drive technology to genetically control insects like mosquitoes and locusts
  11. An argument for gene drive technology to genetically control populations of insects like mosquitoes and locusts
  12. Why Buddhist monks collect alms and visit households even in times of social distancing
  13. As coronavirus cases spike in the South, Northeast seems to have the pandemic under control - here's what changed
  14. COVID-19 has resurrected single-use plastics – are they back to stay?
  15. Is bar soap as gross as millennials say? Not really, and we're all covered with microbes anyway
  16. Biases in algorithms hurt those looking for information on health
  17. What US medical supply chain can learn from the fashion industry
  18. Airlines got travelers comfortable about flying again once before – but 9/11 and a virus are a lot different
  19. Mask resistance during a pandemic isn't new – in 1918 many Americans were 'slackers'
  20. 5 ways higher education can be seen as hostile to women of color
  21. Your coping and resilience strategies might need to shift as the COVID-19 crisis continues
  22. Young musicians can perform on virtual stages when schools are closed
  23. How to stay honest when filing taxes in a pandemic year
  24. The UAE's Mars mission seeks to bring Hope to more places than the red planet
  25. When the world changes under a political scientist's feet
  26. Smartphone witnessing becomes synonymous with Black patriotism after George Floyd's death
  27. How deadly is COVID-19? A biostatistician explores the question
  28. Coronavirus's painful side effect is deep budget cuts for state and local government services
  29. Supreme Court upholds American Indian treaty promises, orders Oklahoma to follow federal law
  30. How one woman pulled off the first consumer boycott – and helped inspire the British to abolish slavery
  31. How talking about the coronavirus as an enemy combatant can backfire
  32. In changing urban neighborhoods, new food offerings can set the table for gentrification
  33. Millennials drive for 8% fewer trips than older generations
  34. Suicide of Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazi exposes the 'freedom and violence' of LGBTQ Muslims in exile
  35. Black deaths matter: The centuries-old struggle to memorialize slaves and victims of racism
  36. The WHO often has been under fire, but no nation has ever moved to sever ties with it
  37. Trump gets no special protections because he's president and must release financial records, Supreme Court rules
  38. Este sencillo modelo muestra la importancia de las mascarillas y el distanciamiento social
  39. Federal executions to resume, posing a new test for lethal injection
  40. Judge orders Brazil to protect Indigenous people from ravages of COVID-19
  41. Money buys even more happiness than it used to
  42. Vigilantism, again in the news, is an American tradition
  43. With prizes, food, housing and cash, Putin rigged Russia's most recent vote
  44. Cell-like decoys could mop up viruses in humans – including the one that causes COVID-19
  45. When states pass social liberalization laws, they create regional advantages for innovation
  46. Aerosols are a bigger coronavirus threat than WHO guidelines suggest – here's what you need to know
  47. Simply scrapping the SAT won't make colleges more diverse
  48. When Trump pushed hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of prescriptions followed despite little evidence that it worked
  49. The Supreme Court just expanded the 'ministerial exception' shielding religious employers from anti-bias laws
  50. COVID-19 exposes why the Postal Service needs to get back into the banking business