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The road to electric vehicles with lower sticker prices than gas cars – battery costs explained

  • Written by Venkat Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
imageReplacing carbon-emitting gas-powered cars with EVs requires whittling away EVs' price premium, and that comes down to one thing: battery cost.Westend61 via Getty Images

Electric vehicle sales have grown exponentially in recent years, accompanied by dropping prices. However, adoption of EVs remains limited by their higher sticker price relative to...

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The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire

  • Written by Larry Griffing, Associate Professor of Biology, Texas A&M University
imageKnown as Mary Beale's 'Portrait of a Mathematician,' could the circa 1680 painting depict Hooke?Mary Beale, CC BY

Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the branching pattern of evolution oft...

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The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30: A cause for celebration during COVID-19?

  • Written by Joseph J. Fins, The E. William Davis Jr, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
imagePresident George H.W. Bush signing the American Disabilities Act into law on July 26, 1990. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA

When President George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law on July 26, 1990, we doubt he was thinking about protecting people with disabilities during a pandemic. How...

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Síndrome de Guillain-Barré, raro trastorno neurológico relacionado con COVID-19

  • Written by Sherry H-Y. Chou, Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh
imageCOVID-19 puede ser relacionado con problemas neurológicos en algunos pacientes que sufren una forma severa de la enfermedad. Ralwel / Getty Images

El paciente en el informe del caso (llamémosle Tom) tenía 54 años y gozaba de buena salud. Durante dos días en mayo, se sintió mal y estaba demasiado...

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Making coronavirus testing easy, accurate and fast is critical to ending the pandemic – the US response is falling far short

  • Written by Zoë McLaren, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageThere are functional tests for coronavirus, but not enough of them are being done. AP Photo/Paul Sancya

For many people in the U.S., getting tested for COVID-19 is a struggle. In Arizona, testing sites have seen lines of hundreds of cars stretching over a mile. In Texas and Florida, some people were waiting for five hours for free testing.

The...

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The office is dead! Long live the office in a post-pandemic world

  • Written by Beth Humberd, Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageLong live the office. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Editor’s note: The future of the office has become an open question after the coronavirus lockdown forced tens of millions of Americans to work from home. Will office workers flock back to their cubicles and water coolers when the pandemic ends? Or will employees want to hold on to their newfound...

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Statues topple and a Catholic church burns as California reckons with its Spanish colonial past

  • Written by Abel R. Gomez, PhD Candidate, Religion Department, Syracuse University
imageThe 18th-century Catholic missionary Junipero Serra at work in California. Lawrence OP/flickr/St. Casimir’s church in Baltimore, CC BY-SA

Statues of the Spanish missionary Junípero Serra were recently toppled in the U.S. cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento as part of a national movement for racial justice sparked by the...

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Why Hagia Sophia remains a potent symbol of spiritual and political authority

  • Written by Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
imageThe first Muslim prayers were held on Friday inside the Hagia Sophia in 86 years.AP Photo/Yasin Akgul

Since its origins in the sixth century A.D, the Hagia Sophia has served as a church, a mosque, and, since 1934, a museum. But on July 10, the Turkish government declared that from now on it would serve as a mosque and be open for all visitors when...

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The ADA isn't just about ramps -- over 30 years, it has profoundly changed the deaf community

  • Written by Gerard Buckley, President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageA sign language interpreter signs as Secretary of State John Kerry testifies in 2013. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Americans with Disabilities Act is 30 years old.

For young people who have grown up with the ADA, the results of this landmark legislation are part of everyday life – sometimes in ways they may not even realize.

I was there...

Read more: The ADA isn't just about ramps -- over 30 years, it has profoundly changed the deaf community

John Lewis traded the typical college experience for activism, arrests and jail cells

  • Written by Jelani M. Favors, Associate Professor of History, Clayton State University
imageJohn Lewis, right, marched with Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equality. Steve Schapiro / Contributor/GettyImages

As an 18-year-old student attending a training session for activists at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, John Lewis stuttered and struggled to read. A visiting professor mocked his stammered speech and...

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  17. How other countries reopened schools during the pandemic – and what the US can learn from them
  18. How popular culture hobbles protest movements
  19. Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected
  20. Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be
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  23. Russian cyberthreat extends to coronavirus vaccine research
  24. Social networks aim to erase hate but miss the target on guns
  25. Could employers and states mandate COVID-19 vaccinations? Here's what the courts have ruled
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  27. Colleges expect athletes to work but not to air any grievances – here's why that's wrong
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  35. COVID-19 has ravaged American newsrooms – here's why that matters
  36. How local governments can attract companies that will help keep their economies afloat during COVID-19
  37. Why Indian American spelling bee success is more than just an endearing story
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  39. John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belonged to a long tradition of religious leaders in the civil rights struggle
  40. Twitter hack exposes broader threat to democracy and society
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