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Dam collapse at Brazilian mine exposes grave safety problems

  • Written by Julian D. Olden, Professor of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
After 48 hours of frantic effort, Brazilian rescue workers have called off their search for survivors at a collapsed dam in Minas Gerais state.AP Photo/Leo Correa

Brazilian rescue workers continue searching for more than 300 people missing after a dam burst at an iron ore mine over the weekend.

The dam, which ruptured on Jan. 25 close to the...

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Why women still earn a lot less than men

  • Written by Michele Gilman, Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
Women earn less than men in most occupations, including soccer. AP Photo/Jessica Hill

A decade ago, on Jan. 29, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama signed his first bill into law: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

It was the latest legislative effort to close the persistently stubborn gap between how much women and men earn. At...

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3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and listen to

  • Written by Anjana Susarla, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
Generating new entertainment data.MinDof/shutterstock.com

Anyone who’s watched “Bridget Jones’s Diary” knows one of her New Year’s resolutions is “Not go out every night but stay in and read books and listen to classical music.”

The reality, however, is substantially different. What people actually do in...

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Mexico is bleeding. Can its new president stop the violence?

  • Written by Angélica Durán-Martínez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the families of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 in Guerrero state. He has ordered a truth commission to investigate the unsolved disappearance.Reuters/Edgard Garrido

Nearly 34,000 people were murdered in Mexico last year, according to new government statistics — the...

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Together, more heat and more carbon dioxide may not alter quantity or nutritional quality of crops

  • Written by Carl Bernacchi, Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (SoyFACE) research facility at the University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignClaire Benjamin/RIPE Project, CC BY-ND

Researchers around the world are trying to figure out ways to feed a growing population, which is estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. But as humanity struggles to increase crop...

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How to have productive disagreements about politics and religion

  • Written by Larisa Heiphetz, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
Psychology research suggests a new tool for your ‘disagreement toolbox.’ Dragon Images/Shutterstock.com

In the current polarized climate, it’s easy to find yourself in the midst of a political disagreement that morphs into a religious argument. People’s religious affiliation predicts their stances on abortion, immigration and...

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Stressed out by shutdown chaos? 4 evidence-based tools to help you cope

  • Written by Laurel Mellin, Associate Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
Travelers at Miami International Airport on Jan. 18, 2019 wait in long lines, in part due to the government shutdown. Lynne Sladky/AP Photo

Despite the short-term relief from the government shutdown, there’s a growing feeling that what appears to be political chaos in Washington is rippling across the country.

People needn’t try to...

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How frigid polar vortex blasts are connected to global warming

  • Written by Jennifer Francis, Visiting Professor, Rutgers University
Bundled up against the cold in downtown Chicago, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

A record-breaking cold wave is sending literal shivers down the spines of millions of Americans. Temperatures across the upper Midwest are forecast to fall an astonishing 50 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) below normal this week – as low as 35...

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What are Muslim prayer rugs?

  • Written by Rose S. Aslan, Assistant Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
Muslims can pray anywhere in the world using the prayer carpet.AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

In a recent tweet, President Trump stated that ranchers have been finding prayer rugs scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last year, he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners” were mixed in with the caravan heading to the...

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Community schools score key victory in LA teachers strike

  • Written by Karen Hunter Quartz, Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles
Parents accompany their children to school on the first day back after a teachers' strike in Los Angeles.AP Photo/Richard Vogel

One of the most enduring images of the 2019 Los Angeles teachers strike will be of Roxana Dueñas.

Dueñas teaches history at Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles. It was her image that was used on a strike...

Read more: Community schools score key victory in LA teachers strike

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  2. How Gates Foundation's push for 'high-quality' curriculum will stifle teaching
  3. The shutdown took so long to end because it became a moral issue
  4. Separation of powers: An invitation to struggle
  5. Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro
  6. Sylvia Plath's new short story was never 'lost' – so why is the media saying it was 'just discovered'?
  7. A proposal to reduce vaccine exemptions while respecting rights of conscience
  8. Rural people with disabilities are still struggling to recover from the recession
  9. Can you life-hack your way to love?
  10. How will generations that didn't experience the Holocaust remember it?
  11. Vital economic data was likely lost during the shutdown – here's why it matters to all Americans
  12. How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system
  13. In Haiti, climate aid comes with strings attached
  14. Live cargo: How scientists pack butterflies, frogs and sea turtles for safe travels
  15. 3 ways to make your voice heard besides protesting
  16. Why the Davos elites are still relevant
  17. I studied buttons for 7 years and learned these 5 lessons about how and why people push them
  18. University scientists feel the pain of the government shutdown, too
  19. Are federal workers being forced into involuntary servitude?
  20. There's a wider scandal suggested by the Trump investigations
  21. You can't control what you can't find: Detecting invasive species while they're still scarce
  22. Not so long ago, cities were starved for trees
  23. Gene drive technology makes mouse offspring inherit specific traits from parents
  24. Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust
  25. What Trump and Pelosi can learn from a different kind of shutdown that crippled the nation
  26. Venezuela power struggle plunges nation into turmoil: 3 essential reads
  27. Data privacy rules in the EU may leave the US behind
  28. Why it's wrong to label students 'at-risk'
  29. How to show gratitude to TSA workers
  30. Personal diplomacy has long been a presidential tactic, but Trump adds a twist
  31. Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, 'the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere'
  32. Have you caught a catfish? Online dating can be deceptive
  33. Women are better than men at the free throw line
  34. We can't save everything from climate change – here's how to make choices
  35. The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress
  36. Why paper maps still matter in the digital age
  37. Are microbes causing your milk allergy?
  38. Shutdown's economic impact is a forceful reminder of why government matters
  39. Lessons from 'Spider-Man': How video games could change college science education
  40. Nazis and communists tried it too: Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades
  41. It's cold! A physiologist explains how to keep your body feeling warm
  42. Howard Thurman – the Baptist minister who had a deep influence on MLK
  43. A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean
  44. America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove
  45. Martin Luther King Jr., union man
  46. What a 16th-century mystic can teach us about making good decisions
  47. Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains
  48. How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement
  49. Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health
  50. What’s an index fund?