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What is a super spreader? An infectious disease expert explains

  • Written by Elizabeth McGraw, Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University
Whether by biology or behavior, some people in the crowd will transmit coronavirus to more than the average number of others.AP Photo/Kin Cheung

As the emerging Wuhancoronavirus outbreak dominates the daily news, you might be wondering just how the pathogen is working its way around the world. This virus travels from place to place by infecting one...

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Harvey Weinstein's 'false memory' defense is not backed by science

  • Written by Anne P. DePrince, Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
Harvey Weinstein leaves for the day during his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault, in New York, Jan. 28, 2020. AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

Much like the defense of Bill Cosby, media mogul Harvey Weinstein’s defense team says they’ll bring up “false memories” during his trial on multiple charges of sexual assault. In...

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How do I know if I might have coronavirus? 5 questions answered

  • Written by Catharine Paules, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Pennsylvania State University
Students line up to sanitize their hands to avoid the contact of coronavirus in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jan. 28, 2020.AP Photo/Heng Sinith

Editor’s note: The new coronavirus, 2019 n-CoV, continues to spread in China, and cases are being diagnosed in many other countries, including the U.S. In some of those countries, including Germany and...

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Modern tomatoes are very different from their wild ancestors – and we found missing links in their evolution

  • Written by Hamid Razifard, Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tomatoes' ancestors looked very different. Foxys Forest Manufacture/Shutterstock

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

The Big Idea: The tomato’s path from wild plant to household staple is much more complex than researchers have long thought. For many years, scientists believed that humans domesticated the tomato in...

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Union gunboats didn't just attack rebel military sites – they went after civilian property, too

  • Written by Robert Gudmestad, Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862.U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 yards long, carried 75 tons of armor on their hulls and decks, sported up to 13 guns, and had crews numbering up to...

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4 myths the Trump team promoted about Andrew Johnson

  • Written by Paul Harvey, Professor of American History, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
The U.S. House of Representatives brought 11 articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson.Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images

The claims: Andrew Johnson then, like Donald Trump now, was unjustly impeached by a group of radicals in the House of Representatives.

Fortunately – so the claim continues – enough honest...

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Preventing genocide in Myanmar: Court order tries to protect Rohingya Muslims where politics has failed

  • Written by Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Tufts University
The Myanmar military's years-long campaign against the Rohingya Muslims left hundreds of villages a smoldering pile of debris. Warpait village, Rakhine State, Oct.14, 2016.Ye Aung Thu/AFP via Getty Images)

Myanmar has been ordered by the International Court of Justice to take “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingya, an ethnic...

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Brain organoids help neuroscientists understand brain development, but aren't perfect matches for real brains

  • Written by Madeline Andrews, Postdoctoral Scholar of Regeneration Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Just a few millimeters across, organoids are clumps of cells that resemble the brain. Madeline Andrews, Arnold Kriegstein's lab, UCSF, CC BY-ND

What was going on with our brain organoids?

Asneuroscientists, we use these three-dimensional clusters of cells grown in petri dishes to learn more about how the human brain works. Researchers culture...

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I track murder cases that use the 'gay panic defense,' a controversial practice banned in 9 states

  • Written by W. Carsten Andresen, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Edward's University
The ABA has called for states to curtail 'gay panic' and 'trans panic' defenses.icedmocha/Shutterstock.com

On January 21, New Jersey became the ninth state in the nation to ban the gay panic defense, a strategy that the governor said is “rooted in homophobia.” W. Carsten Andresen, a criminal justice scholar, has been building a database...

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Britain is about to leave the EU – what's next?

  • Written by Luke Reader, Teaching Fellow, History Department, Case Western Reserve University
As the U.K. leaves the European Union, what awaits Prime Minister Boris Johnson?Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images

Britain will shortly leave the European Union. So that’s it. Brexit is over, right?

Wrong. To channel former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill – as every leading Brexit supporter seems to want to do – “Th...

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  4. Beware the brokered convention that breaks up the party
  5. E-cig flavors may be more than alluring; they could cause damage themselves
  6. Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on engineering
  7. Why legislation is needed to make Holocaust education more prominent in public schools: 5 questions answered
  8. Worried about accidentally harassing a woman? Don't be
  9. When will there be a coronavirus vaccine? 5 questions answered
  10. A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much: A global web of patent laws protects Big Pharma
  11. Puerto Rico earthquakes imperil island's indigenous heritage
  12. Despite defeats, the Islamic State remains unbroken and defiant around the world
  13. Americans on the right and left change their minds after hearing where Trump stands
  14. Young California ranchers are finding new ways to raise livestock and improve the land
  15. Is workplace rudeness on the rise?
  16. Hate cancel culture? Blame algorithms
  17. After the trial's over, President Trump's impeachment battles could determine who holds real power in the US government
  18. Gay rights dispute is pulling apart the United Methodist Church, after decades of argument
  19. Obesity, second to smoking as the most preventable cause of US deaths, needs new approaches
  20. Don't be fooled – most independents are partisans too
  21. How Minneapolis made Prince
  22. Why it's unclear whether private programs for 'troubled teens' are working
  23. What is white-nose syndrome in bats?
  24. Study finds ethics can be taught – in finance, at least
  25. How CEOs, experts and philosophers see the world's biggest risks differently
  26. Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding – and climate change is making them stronger
  27. Does impeachment need a crime? Not according to framers of the Constitution
  28. If it's below 40 degrees in South Florida, the forecast calls for falling iguanas
  29. 5 obstacles that stop many students from taking an internship
  30. Why your zodiac sign is probably wrong
  31. In the terrorism fight, Trump has continued a key Obama policy
  32. Winning worker hearts and minds is key to companies achieving their green goals
  33. Are you in danger of catching the coronavirus? 5 questions answered
  34. The serious consequence of exercising too much, too fast
  35. 200 years of exploring Antarctica – the world's coldest, most forbidding and most peaceful continent
  36. When lesbians led the women's suffrage movement
  37. Precedent? Nah, the Senate gets to reinvent its rules in every impeachment
  38. Joaquin Phoenix's lips mocked - here's what everyone should know about cleft lip
  39. Joaquin Phoenix's lips mocked – here's what everyone should know about cleft lip
  40. Reclaman a Cuba por detención prolongada de un disidente – pero ¿es José Daniel Ferrer un prisionero político?
  41. African Americans take on more debt for grad school – but the payoff is also bigger
  42. US and Cuba spar over jailed dissident – but is José Daniel Ferrer really a political prisoner?
  43. A brief history of black names, from Perlie to Latasha
  44. Why California is banning chlorpyrifos, a widely-used pesticide: 5 questions answered
  45. Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly
  46. Silicon Valley's latest fad is dopamine fasting – and that may not be as crazy as it sounds
  47. Is it OK for teens to drink coffee?
  48. The dramatic dismissal of a landmark youth climate lawsuit might not close the book on that case
  49. Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China
  50. Can capitalism solve capitalism’s problems?