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We are guinea pigs in a worldwide experiment on microplastics

  • Written by John Meeker, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan
Microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea.By Dirk Wahn/shutterstock.com

One of the main problems with plastics is that although we may only need them fleetingly – seconds in the case of microbeads in personal care products, or minutes as in plastic grocery bags – they stick around for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, much of this plastic...

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¿Las noticias te estresan? Estas 4 técnicas de entrenamiento mental te ayudarán a calmar el cerebro

  • Written by Laurel Mellin, Associate Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
El estrés existe para ayudarnos a escapar de una situación de peligro físico, no reaccionar mal al periódico cada mañana. Shutterstock

Desde la histeria provocada por la nominación de un candidato conservador a la Corte Suprema a las políticas anti-inmigrante de Donald Trump y el crecimiento de las...

Read more: ¿Las noticias te estresan? Estas 4 técnicas de entrenamiento mental te ayudarán a calmar el cerebro

¿Las noticias te estresan? Estas cuatro técnicas de entrenamiento mental te ayudarán a calmar el cerebro

  • Written by Laurel Mellin, Associate Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
El estrés existe para ayudarnos a escapar de una situación de peligro físico, no reaccionar mal al periódico cada mañana. Shutterstock

Desde la histeria provocada por la nominación de un candidato conservador a la Corte Suprema a las políticas anti-inmigrante de Donald Trump y el crecimiento de las...

Read more: ¿Las noticias te estresan? Estas cuatro técnicas de entrenamiento mental te ayudarán a calmar el...

Designed to deceive: How gambling distorts reality and hooks your brain

  • Written by Mike Robinson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University
The longer they keep you plugged in to a game, the better it is for the house.AP Photo/Seth Wenig

To call gambling a “game of chance” evokes fun, random luck and a sense of collective engagement. These playful connotations may be part of why almost 80 percent of American adults gamble at some point in their lifetime. When I ask my...

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Immigration activists fighting to abolish ICE have a bigger vision

  • Written by A. Naomi Paik, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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There’s a phrase being thrown around a lot these days: “Abolish ICE.” It’s a hashtag, it’s used in political speeches and demonstrations, and it appears all over Facebook.

What does it mean and where did it come from?

ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency that enforces immigration laws...

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Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard?

  • Written by Nermin Allam, Assistant Professor of Politics, Rutgers University Newark
A woman in Saudi Arabia drives to work for the first time in Riyadh.AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty

Earlier this summer, Saudi Arabia lifted the decades-long ban on women’s driving. The move is part of a series of reforms that the country has been implementing. In April the kingdom loosened male guardianship laws – under which women need the...

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The promise of personalized medicine is not for everyone 

  • Written by Daniel R. Weinberger, Director of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development and Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and The Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
African-Americans are underrepresented in large-scale genetic and neuroscience studies.Wadi Lissa/Unsplash

Could your medical treatment one day be tailored to your DNA? That’s the promise of “personalized medicine,” an individualized approach that has caught the imagination of doctors and researchers over the past few years. This...

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Obesity and diabetes: 2 reasons why we should be worried about the plastics that surround us

  • Written by Bruce Blumberg, Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology , University of California, Irvine
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is used in a variety of applications from plumbing to health care to electronics.By SIRIKANLAYA KHLIBNGERN/shutterstock.com

Today, nearly 40 percent of U.S. adults and 21 percent of youth are obese. This trend is on the upswing and the worldwide population is becoming more obese – which is increasing the risk of other...

Read more: Obesity and diabetes: 2 reasons why we should be worried about the plastics that surround us

A socialist's primary win doesn't herald a workers revolution in the US

  • Written by Daniel Pout, Instructor School of Politics & Global Studies, Arizona State University
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a California fundraiser in AugustAP/Jae C. Hong

Anyone anticipating a golden dawn of Marxist-Leninist communism soon in the United States might have to wait a while longer – perhaps forever.

The surprise victory of socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over longtime Democratic New York Congressman John Crowley in a...

Read more: A socialist's primary win doesn't herald a workers revolution in the US

The start of high school doesn't have to be stressful

  • Written by David Yeager, Associate professor, University of Texas at Austin
Up to two-thirds of students experience 'ninth grade shock,' which can affect everything from grades to mental health.ABO Photography/www.shutterstock.com

This month, more than 4 million students across the nation will begin high school.

Many will do well.

But many will not.

Consider that nearly two-thirds of students will experience the “ninth...

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  4. Jury finds Monsanto liable in the first Roundup cancer trial – here's what could happen next
  5. ¿Por qué nuestro cerebro siempre encuentra problemas?
  6. How 'story maps' redraw the world using people's real-life experiences
  7. Profit, not free speech, governs media companies' decisions on controversy
  8. Apple's $1 trillion value doesn't mean it's the 'biggest' company
  9. Why Trump shouldn't leverage the government's emergency oil supply to bolster the GOP
  10. What is causing Florida's algae crisis? 5 questions answered
  11. Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there is a link?
  12. From breast implants to ice cube trays: How silicone took over our kitchens
  13. Flip a switch and shut down seizures? New research suggests how to turn off out-of-control signaling in the brain
  14. Argentina rejects legal abortion — and not all Catholics are celebrating
  15. Heat and Light: Trailer
  16. 5 autores latinos que merecen ser leídos
  17. For universities, making the case for diversity is part of making amends for racist past
  18. How the federal government came to control your car's fuel economy
  19. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries
  20. The world of plastics, in numbers
  21. How pharmacists can help solve medication errors
  22. How new fathers use social media to make sense of their roles
  23. Who are the Sikhs and what are their beliefs?
  24. Can Trump's White House legally ban reporters?
  25. What is insider trading, the crime Rep. Chris Collins was charged with?
  26. Republicans may be panicking over Ohio's special election results
  27. La raza del asesino influye en la cobertura mediática de los tiroteos masivos en EEUU
  28. Audiences love the anger: Alex Jones, or someone like him, will be back
  29. What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
  30. Capital gains and why they matter – a tax expert explains
  31. All the battles being waged against fossil fuel infrastructure are following a single strategy
  32. Who are Pakistan's Ahmadis and why haven't they voted in 30 years
  33. Programmers need ethics when designing the technologies that influence people's lives
  34. Your voting habits may depend on when you registered to vote
  35. A night enforcing immigration laws on the US-Mexico border
  36. 5 razones por las cuales la pesadilla de Venezuela podría empeorar, con o sin los drones asesinos
  37. Ida B. Wells: How grassroots support and social media made a monumental difference in honoring her legacy
  38. The US needs to get over its obsession with GDP
  39. Smith College incident is latest case of racial 'profiling by proxy'
  40. Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than nature replaces it
  41. As Russians hack the US grid, a look at what's needed to protect it
  42. Americans, stop obsessing over GDP
  43. Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments
  44. Save money when traveling abroad by thinking like an economist
  45. Funding basic research plays the long game for future payoffs
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  47. What philosophers have to say about eating meat
  48. Frente a movilización masiva para el aborto legal en Argentina, la Iglesia católica modera su tono
  49. Facing a groundswell of support for legal abortion, Argentina's Catholic Church moderates its tone
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