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Privacy concerns don't stop people from putting their DNA on the internet to help solve crimes

  • Written by Sarah Esther Lageson, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Home DNA testing has made it easy and affordable for millions of people to learn about their ancestry. Now, police are using this genetic information to identify suspects in unsolved crimes.Shutterstock

Americans are embracing the use of DNA databases to solve crimes.

Over the past year DNA submitted to ancestry websites have helped police in the...

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Does hitting the snooze button really help you feel better?

  • Written by Steven Bender, Clinical Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Texas A&M University
How many times do you hit snooze before getting out of bed?DGLimages

To sleep or to snooze? You probably know the answer, but you don’t prefer it.

Most of us probably use the snooze function on our alarm clocks at some point in our lives. Just a few more minutes under the covers, a time to gather our thoughts, right?

While such snoozing might...

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What would happen to Congress if Washington, DC became the 51st state?

  • Written by Dudley Poston, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
D.C. would likely elect Democratic representatives and senators.Fang Deng/shutterstock.com

For years, the official motto of the District of Columbia has been “Taxation without representation.”

The residents of Washington, D.C. do not have representation in the U.S. House or in the Senate. People who live in the district, on average, pay...

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What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

  • Written by Shobana Shankar, Associate Professor, History/Africana Studies, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Two women sell roadside refreshments in rural Kano in 2011.Shobana Shankar, CC BY-SA

To consider that Nigeria, infamous for anti-vaxx campaigns leading to polio outbreaks, has any lessons for Americans may be shocking.

But as measles cases in the U.S. climb to an all-time high after the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, U.S. public health...

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The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the solar system

  • Written by William Herbst, Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University
Geminid meteors shower downward on a December night in a remote part of Virginia. Genevieve de Messieres/Shutterstock.com

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L’Aigle in Normandy, France – it rained rocks.

Over 3,000 of them fell out of the sky. Fortunately no one was injured. The French Academy of Sciences investigated...

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No, Americans shouldn't fear traveling abroad

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Senior lecturer, Boston University
Just another American abroad.AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

As summer travel season begins, friends and relatives have asked me if it’s safe to travel outside the U.S.

I understand their fears. The news is filled with scary stories, like a tourist bus being bombed near Egypt’s pyramids, people being knifed at a bus stop in Japan and continuing...

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Women have been the heart of the Christian right for decades

  • Written by Emily Suzanne Johnson, Assistant Professor of History, Ball State University
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signing a bill that virtually outlaws abortion in the state.Hal Yeager/Alabama Governor's Office via AP

Alabama’s new abortion restrictions were signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey. But more has been said recently about the fact that the bill was passed by 25 white men in the state Senate. Media reports have pointed to how...

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The debate over what ails philanthropy heats up

  • Written by David Campbell, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Michael Bloomberg, Robert F. Smith and MacKenzie Bezos are among the big givers making headlines.AP Photo/Elise Amendola; Reuters/Lucy Nicholson; AP Photo/Dennis Van Tine

The Binghamton University students taking a philanthropy class I’ve been teaching for years have made more than US$150,000 in grants to local charities since 2009. Because...

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My students see giving money away as a good thing but they're getting leery of billionaire donors

  • Written by David Campbell, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Michael Bloomberg, Robert F. Smith and MacKenzie Bezos are among the big givers making headlines.AP Photo/Elise Amendola; Reuters/Lucy Nicholson; AP Photo/Dennis Van Tine

The Binghamton University students taking a philanthropy class I’ve been teaching for years have made more than US$150,000 in grants to local charities since 2009. Because...

Read more: My students see giving money away as a good thing but they're getting leery of billionaire donors

As more developing countries reject plastic waste exports, wealthy nations seek solutions at home

  • Written by Kate O'Neill, Associate Professor, Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley
Plastic waste from Australia in Port Klang, Malaysia. Malaysia says it will send back some 3,300 tons of nonrecyclable plastic waste to countries including the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. AP Photo/Vincent Thian

Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are following suit. On May...

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  48. Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes -- mothers' roles shouldn't be erased
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