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Americans focus on responding to earthquake damage, not preventing it, because they're unaware of their risk

  • Written by Matt Motta, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
Heavily built-up areas can experience more disastrous damage in an earthquake.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

On July 4 and 5, two major earthquakes, followed by several thousand smaller ones, struck Southern California. Their size and the damage they caused captured attention around the country.

What tends to get much less notice from the public is...

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Did we mishear Neil Armstrong's famous first words on the Moon?

  • Written by Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon
It's the case of the missing 'a.'Nick Lehr/The Conversation via NASA, CC BY-SA

On July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface of the Moon.

As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written into history books for generations to come: “That’s...

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As flood risks increase across the US, it's time to recognize the limits of levees

  • Written by Amahia Mallea, Associate Professor of History, Drake University
Water rushes through a breached levee on the Arkansas River in Dardanelle, Ark., May 31, 2019.Yell County Sheriff's Department via AP

New Orleans averted disaster this month when tropical storm Barry delivered less rain in the Crescent City than forecasters originally feared. But Barry’s slog through Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and...

Read more: As flood risks increase across the US, it's time to recognize the limits of levees

War's physical toll can last for generations, as it has for the children of the Vietnam War

  • Written by Michael Palmer, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Western Australia
People living in Vietnam today may still feel the effects of the war.Kylie Nicholson/shutterstock.com

History often focuses on the immediate death toll of war. But hostilities can have longer-term consequences on a population’s health.

In our new study published on June 5, weinvestigatedhow U.S. Air Force bombing in Vietnam during 1965 to 1975...

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When migrants go home, they bring back money, skills and ideas that can change a country

  • Written by Benjamin Waddell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College
Between 1990 to 2015, nearly half of all migrants worldwide went back to their country of birth, whether by choice or by force.Shutterstock

Escaping violence, war, poverty and environmental disaster, more people than ever are migrating worldwide. Some 258 million people – 3.4% of the global population – live outside their country of...

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Young Americans deserve a 21st-century Moonshot to Mars

  • Written by Vahe Peroomian, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Mars should be the next destination for humankind.Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com

“Hidden Figures” and “First Man” were arguably the most inspirational space-themed movies of the last several years. Both, though, had to reach back to the glory days of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. The faces of my children after watching these...

Read more: Young Americans deserve a 21st-century Moonshot to Mars

What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? Here's why it's still important

  • Written by Ian Johnstone, Dean ad interim and Professor of International Law, Tufts University
Behrouz Kamalvandi, left, spokesman for Iran's atomic energy agency, listens to a man wearing a surgical mask, an official with the Ahmadi Roshan nuclear site in Natanz, Iran, during a news conference on May 20, 2019. IRIB News Agency via AP

Iran recently exceeded the limits on uranium enrichment set out in its nuclear deal with the U.S. and five...

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Mapping the Moon for Apollo

  • Written by Timothy Swindle, Professor of Planetary Sciences and Geosciences, University of Arizona
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, humans stepped onto another celestial body and into history.NASA

At an International Astronomical Union meeting in 1955, noted astronomer Gerard Kuiper asked for suggestions and collaborators on a project to make a map of the Moon. At the time, the best lunar atlases had hand-drawn images, and Kuiper wanted to use...

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University of California's showdown with the biggest academic publisher aims to change scholarly publishing for good

  • Written by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
For now, it's going to be trickier for the University of California community to access some academic journals.Michelle/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

This month, academic publisher Elsevier shuttered the University of California’s online access to current journal articles. It’s the latest move in the high stakes standoff between Elsevier, the worl...

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How do lithium-ion batteries work?

  • Written by Robert Masse, Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Lithium-ion batteries power lots of different kinds of devices.Transport Canada

The smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only really possible because of another technology: lithium-ion batteries.

First sold commercially in 1991 by Sony for its camcorders, these...

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