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Toward a circular economy: Tackling the plastics recycling problem

  • Written by Margaret Sobkowicz, Associate Professor of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
An escalator with a pile of plastic bottles at the factory for processing and recycling. Alba_alioth/Shutterstock.com

Why has the world continued to increase consumption of plastic materials when at the same time, environmental and human health concerns over their use have grown?

One answer is they are immensely useful to humankind, and despite...

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Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts

  • Written by Deborah Y. Cohn, Associate Professor of Marketing, New York Institute of Technology
Gee, you shouldn't have.Happy Stock Photo/Shutterstock.com

What happens to the gifts you get? I’m not talking about the ones that you really adore. I mean the rest of them – the ones you can’t or don’t want to use, or even hate.

The problem doesn’t end when you’ve awkwardly thanked someone and thrown away the...

Read more: Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts

Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?

  • Written by Carol Menassa, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Someone's too hot and someone's too cold.Collage by The Conversation, combining images by Monika Wisniewska and Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

In any office, home or other shared space, there’s almost always someone who’s too cold, someone who’s too hot – and someone who doesn’t know what the fuss around...

Read more: Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?

Guatemala in crisis after president bans corruption investigation into his government

  • Written by Rachel E. Bowen, Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
Guatemalans overwhelmingly support the United Nations-backed corruption investigation known as CICIG. President Jimmy Morales is trying to ban prosecutors from the country.AP Photo/Moises Castillo

For months, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has been trying to stop a United Nations-backed anti-corruption investigation into his government.

Morales,...

Read more: Guatemala in crisis after president bans corruption investigation into his government

The shutdown will harm the health and safety of Americans, even after it's long over

  • Written by Morten Wendelbo, Research Fellow, American University

With the U.S. federal government shutdown now the longest in history, it’s important to understand what a shutdown means for the health and safety of Americans.

The good news is that in the short run, the consequences are relatively few. But, as a researcher who studies natural disaster planning, I believe that Americans should be worried...

Read more: The shutdown will harm the health and safety of Americans, even after it's long over

How to train the body's own cells to combat antibiotic resistance

  • Written by Zahidul Alam, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Antibiotic-resistant germs can thrive in the presence of these drugs.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Drug-resistant superbugs have threatened human health for decades. The situation is getting worse because of the shortage of new antibiotics. But what if we changed the way we aim to treat them, and trained our cells to kill these invaders instead of...

Read more: How to train the body's own cells to combat antibiotic resistance

To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented public lands

  • Written by Stephen Nash, Visiting Senior Research Scholar, University of Richmond
Rising temperatures and more frequent wildfires in Alaskan national parks could affect caribou's habitat and winter food sources.Zak Richter/NPS

The Trump administration’s decision to keep many U.S. national parks open during the current federal government shutdown, with few or no staff, spotlights how popular and how vulnerable these unique...

Read more: To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented public lands

Why privatizing the VA or other essential health services is a bad idea

  • Written by Sebastian Jilke, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Newark

The Trump administration wants to shift billions of dollars from government-run veterans’ hospitals to private health care providers. That’s true even though earlier this year the administration vehemently denied it would privatize any part of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The privatization of essential government services is...

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3 reasons to pay attention to the LA teacher strike

  • Written by Erin McHenry-Sorber, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, West Virginia University
Los Angeles teachers are striking after contract negotiations failed in the nation's second-largest school district.Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP

The first mass teacher labor action of 2019 is unfolding in California as the United Teachers Los Angeles walked out for the first time in 30 years.

This strike, which began on Jan. 14, isn’t just important to...

Read more: 3 reasons to pay attention to the LA teacher strike

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  3. Change your phone settings so Apple, Google can't track your movements
  4. The 2019 government shutdown is just the latest reason why poor people can't bank on the safety net
  5. How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses
  6. Chicago, New York discounted most public input in expanding bike systems
  7. Who are the federal workers affected by the shutdown? 5 questions answered
  8. Acute flaccid myelitis: What is the polio-like illness paralyzing US children?
  9. If Trump declares a national emergency, could Congress or the courts reverse it?
  10. Science gets shut down right along with the federal government
  11. How Viktor Orban degraded Hungary's weak democracy
  12. 3 ways to be smart on social media
  13. The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices
  14. Calling it a 'war on science' has consequences
  15. Federal workers begin to feel pain of shutdown as 800,000 lose their paychecks
  16. Virginia's uranium mining battle flips traditional views of federal and state power
  17. Mapping the world's 'blue carbon' hot spots in coastal mangrove forests
  18. The politics of fear: How fear goes tribal, allowing us to be manipulated
  19. More solutions needed for campus hunger
  20. The forgotten legacy of gay photographer George Platt Lynes
  21. How a government shutdown affects the economy
  22. Hearing hate speech primes your brain for hateful actions
  23. Renewed space rivalry between nations ignores a tradition of cooperation
  24. Remembering American saint Elizabeth Seton's legacy and how it continues to inspire work with immigrants
  25. With the right guiding principles, carbon taxes can work
  26. With foreign bureaus slashed, freelancers are filling the void – at their own risk
  27. Who's more compassionate, Republicans or Democrats?
  28. The downside of doing good with a market mindset
  29. Tumor-free flounder are just 1 dividend from the cleanup of Boston Harbor
  30. The science of the deal: A negotiation expert explains how Trump and the Democrats could both end the shutdown with a win
  31. Trump calls border a 'crisis of the soul': 3 scholars react to his Oval Office address
  32. Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations' way
  33. Stopping partisan gerrymandering is more complicated than you think
  34. Families are choosing between their health and staying together
  35. Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel
  36. Why Trump will likely lose the government shutdown
  37. How to increase your chances of sticking with your resolutions
  38. Is there a crisis at the US-Mexico border? 6 essential reads
  39. Venezuelans reject Maduro presidency — but most would oppose foreign military operation to oust him
  40. Why elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students
  41. Let them eat more fat? Researcher argues that a balance of types of fat is the key
  42. What Catholics can learn from protests of the past
  43. Venezuelans want President Maduro out, but most would oppose foreign military intervention to remove him
  44. When it comes to brain tumors, a patient's sex matters
  45. What's behind our appetite for self-destruction?
  46. How childbearing varies across US women in 3 charts
  47. Los Manuscritos del mar Muerto son un vínculo inestimable con el pasado de la Biblia
  48. Fact check: How many people are enslaved in the world today?
  49. White right? How demographics is changing US politics
  50. 3D scans of bat skulls help natural history museums open up dark corners of their collections