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Saving the brain with a new nerve agent antidote

  • Written by Janice Chambers, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine; Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Mississippi State University
An old gas mask lies abandoned on the ground.By Khamidulin Sergey / shutterstock.com

Terror on a Tokyo subway, 1995; attacks on Syrian civilians, 2013 and 2017; assassinations in an airport in Kuala Lumpur, 2017; attempted assassination in London, 2018. Tremors, foaming at the mouth, seizures, respiratory shutdown, sometimes death. What do these...

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Turkey's currency collapse shows just how vulnerable its economy is to a crisis

  • Written by Can Erbil, Professor of the Practice of Economics, Boston College
Sometimes you have to look back to move forward. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

If you happen to be a tourist in Turkey right now, consider yourself lucky. Otherwise, things look grim.

The Turkish lira has lost as much as a third of its value relative to the U.S. dollar in less than a month and recently hit a record low. As a result, all imported...

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Why it matters that teens are reading less

  • Written by Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
SAT reading scores in 2016 were the lowest they've ever been.Aha-Soft/Shutterstock.com

Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today’s teens have come of age with smartphones in their pockets. Compared to teens a couple of decades ago, the way they interact with traditional media like books and movies...

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How the Trump Foundation illustrates the limits of charity regulations

  • Written by Ellen P. Aprill, Professor of Law; John E. Anderson Chair in Tax Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago clubAP Photo/Evan Vucci

Since 2008, nearly every donation Donald Trump’s foundation has made near his Mar-a-Lago mansion and club in Florida funded charities that hosted events there, according to recent investigative reporting.

This pattern, first reported by The Palm Beach Post, follows an accusation New York...

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Advertising is obsolete – here's why it's time to end it

  • Written by Ramsi Woodcock, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Kentucky

Since it first became clear that Russian agents spent thousands of dollars a month on political advertising on social media in the runup to the 2016 presidential election, Americans have been asking how the powerful advertising infrastructure run by Google and Facebook could have been thrown open to foreign agents.

But fewer have stopped to ask whet...

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Stop worrying about how much energy bitcoin uses

  • Written by Katrina Kelly-Pitou, Research Associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

The word “bitcoin” is as likely to garner feverish excitement as it is glaring criticism. The financial community sees speculative promise in the form of trade that currently has little to no regulation. Meanwhile, others argue that it’s a distraction that detracts from the overall longevity of U.S. financial institutions.

Bitcoin...

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Dangerous stereotypes stalk black college athletes

  • Written by Joseph Cooper, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut
Brains vs. brawn: Does big-time college sports value black student-athletes?Brynn Anderson/AP

If you go strictly by the official account, heatstroke was the cause of death for University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair. McNair died earlier this year following a grueling practice in which training staff failed to properly diagnose and...

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You don't have to look far to find human trafficking victims

  • Written by Laurie Charles, Clinical Assistant Professor, Registered Nurse, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, Texas A&M University
Children are especially vulnerable to sex traffickersShutterstock.com

Many people think that human trafficking means kidnapping and moving victims across state or national borders.

After working with human trafficking victims as a forensic nurse and now while teaching at Texas A&M University’s College of Nursing, I know that this often is...

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Tons of plastic trash enter the Great Lakes every year – where does it go?

  • Written by Matthew J. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
Debris pulled from a Lake Erie marina during a cleanup, June 9, 2012.NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, CC BY

Awareness is rising worldwide about the scourge of ocean plastic pollution, from Earth Day 2018 events to the cover of National Geographic magazine. But few people realize that similar concentrations of plastic pollution are accumulati...

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Genetically modified mosquitoes may be best weapon for curbing disease transmission

  • Written by Jason Rasgon, Professor of Entomology and Disease Epidemiology, Pennsylvania State University
More than 3.9 billion people live in regions where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is present. This species transmits Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever. mycteria/Shutterstock.com

Mosquitoes are some of the most deadly creatures on the planet. They carry viruses, bacteria and parasites, which they transmit through...

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  5. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of helium's discovery – why we need it more than ever
  6. Black and biracial Americans wouldn't need to code-switch if we lived in a post-racial society
  7. Facebook begins to shift from being a free and open platform into a responsible public utility
  8. Could different cultures teach us something about dementia?
  9. Lost and found in upstate New York: 'Lost Boys' nonprofits latch onto a new objective closer to home
  10. Approval of first ‘RNA interference’ drug – why the excitement?
  11. The plastic waste crisis is an opportunity for the US to get serious about recycling at home
  12. Dr. Droegemeier goes to Washington? What could happen when a respected scientist joins Trump's White House
  13. A bee economist explains honey bees' vital role in growing tasty almonds
  14. Una noche de patrulla en la frontera entre EEUU y México
  15. Trump craves good press from the 'fake news' media – just look at his White House newsletter
  16. Parole and probation have grown far beyond resources allocated to support them
  17. Zimbabwe's coup did not create democracy from dictatorship
  18. What is the Hajj?
  19. Is there such a thing as a stress-free school lunch? Here's how to pack one
  20. What are rare earths, crucial elements in modern technology? 4 questions answered
  21. Charlottesville belies racism's deep roots in the North
  22. Bio-based plastics can reduce waste, but only if we invest in both making and getting rid of them
  23. I went from prison to professor – here's why criminal records should not be used to keep people out of college
  24. Scientists are developing greener plastics – the bigger challenge is moving them from lab to market
  25. Cameras can catch cars that run red lights, but that doesn't make streets safer
  26. Overcoming vaccination myths: Could addressing the facts during prenatal visits help?
  27. Dutch Memorial Day: Erasing people after death
  28. Small business owners are getting a new incentive to sell to their employees
  29. Why Jewish giving to Israel is losing ground
  30. As a young reporter, I went undercover to expose the Ku Klux Klan
  31. Following Alfred Russel Wallace's footsteps to Borneo, where he penned his seminal evolution paper
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  35. Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem
  36. A Texas city discovered a mass grave of prison laborers. What should it do with the bodies?
  37. Keeping the electricity grid running – 4 essential reads
  38. What Harvard can learn from Texas: A solution to the controversy over affirmative action
  39. From slag to swag: The story of Earl Tupper's fantastic plastics
  40. Why Native Americans struggle to protect their sacred places
  41. How the media falls short in reporting epidemics
  42. Wildfires are inevitable – increasing home losses, fatalities and costs are not
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  47. Immigration activists fighting to abolish ICE have a bigger vision
  48. Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard?
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