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As Venezuela's public health system collapses, mosquito-borne viruses re-emerge

  • Written by Gabriela Blohm, Postdoctoral research associate, University of Florida
Psorophora ferox female, a potential vector for Madariaga virus. Photo taken on Heritage Island, Anacostia River, in Washington, D.C., June 30, 2012.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

The ability to predict which virus will cause the next epidemic is a science, an art and a gamble. We have learned through our work in Venezuela that it’s always a good...

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What is the summer solstice? An astronomer explains

  • Written by Stephen Schneider, Professor of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Northern Hemisphere gets its biggest dose of daylight.Takmeng Wong and the CERES Science Team at NASA Langley Research Center, CC BY

The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88 percent of Earth’s people who live in the Northern Hemisphere. People around the...

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US communities can suffer long-term consequences after immigration raids

  • Written by Elizabeth Oglesby, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
Immigration sting at Corso's Flower and Garden Center in Castalia, Ohio, June 5, 2018.AP Photo/John Minchillo, File

U.S. immigration agents raided an Ohio gardening company on June 5, arresting 114 suspected undocumented workers.

This followed other large workplace raids, including a raid on a rural Tennessee meat-processing plant in April. The...

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Yemen: Understanding the conflict

  • Written by Kelly McFarland, Director of programs and research, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

The military conflict now escalating in Yemen threatens the lives of more than 250,000 people in the port city Hodeidah while 8 million more people across Yemen already risk starvation. The country is also facing the “worst cholera outbreak in modern history.”

I am a scholar who has studied Yemen and worked as an Arabian Peninsula...

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One likely winner of the World Cup? Putin

  • Written by Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev watch the action during the match between Russia and Saudi Arabia that opened the 2018 World Cup.Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Half a million soccer fans will head to Russia to watch their national teams compete in the FIFA World Cup. Billions more...

Read more: One likely winner of the World Cup? Putin

Why New York state is suing the Trumps: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Megan Tompkins-Stange, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Eric, Don Jr., Ivanka and Donald TrumpAP Photo/Evan Vucci

Editor’s note: New York state Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood is suing Donald Trump’s foundation and its board of directors over an alleged “pattern of persistent illegal conduct.” Megan Tompkins-Stange, a University of Michigan public policy professor, explains...

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How can a baby have 3 parents?

  • Written by Jennifer Barfield, Assistant Professor, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Colorado State University
By Fakhrul Najmi

It seems impossible, right? We have been taught from the time we were young that babies are made when a sperm and an egg come together, and the DNA from these two cells combine to make a unique individual with half the DNA from the mother and half from the father. So how can there be a third person involved in this process?

To...

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Puerto Ricans don't trust official information on Hurricane Maria

  • Written by Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology, Pennsylvania State University

On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, destroying the power grid as well as most of the communications structure. In some cases, it took more than five days for Puerto Ricans in the U.S. to hear about their loved ones. In the case of Debora Pérez, a woman who lost her stepfather due to the hurricane, it took more...

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Why domestic abuse and anti-gay violence qualify as persecution in asylum law

  • Written by Sabi Ardalan, Assistant Clinical Professor, Harvard Law School, Harvard University

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently upended decades of U.S. legal precedent by asserting that women fleeing domestic violence will not generally qualify for asylum. To do so, he challenged the principle that women victims of domestic violence are members of a “particular social group.”

This phrase – “particular social...

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How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories

  • Written by Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
The First Salmon ceremony being performed.U.S. Department of Agriculture , CC BY-ND

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, on June 11, that asked Washington state to remove culverts that block the migration of salmon. The ruling has significant implications for Northwest Coast tribes, whose main source of food and livelihood is salmon....

Read more: How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories

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  2. A Father's Day reminder from science: Your kids aren't really growing up quickly
  3. Mexico seeks to become 'country of refuge' as US cracks down on migrants
  4. El nuevo aeropuerto de la Ciudad de México es un desastre ambiental que podría ser un gran parque natural
  5. To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift
  6. Fathers forgotten when it comes to services to help them be good parents, new study finds
  7. Why black women's experiences of #MeToo are different
  8. Suicide nation: What's behind the need to numb and to seek a final escape?
  9. Lessons on political polarization from Lincoln's 'House Divided' speech, 160 years later
  10. Four campus free speech problems solved
  11. Digital mental health drug raises troubling questions
  12. New European rules may give US internet users true privacy choices for the first time
  13. Why there are so many unsheltered homeless people on the West Coast
  14. El colapso económico de Venezuela tiene una clara explicación
  15. Short-term changes in Antarctica's ice shelves are key to predicting their long-term fate
  16. On Germany's national soccer stage, why have East Germans gone missing?
  17. En Venezuela puede que no haya un final feliz
  18. Furia en Argentina despues del juicio que da indulto a un criminal de la Guerra Sucia
  19. The US nuclear arsenal: A quick overview
  20. Climate change will make rice less nutritious, putting millions of the world's poor at risk
  21. Anthony Bourdain's window into Africa
  22. How to choose a World Cup team when the US isn't contending
  23. Some want to get rid of college majors – here's how that could go wrong
  24. Do abused women need asylum? 4 essential reads
  25. Summit with Kim is boosting Trump's confidence – that might not be a good thing
  26. Is Venezuela's president afraid of a coup d'etat?
  27. Mind molding psychedelic drugs could treat depression, and other mental illnesses
  28. Could science diplomacy be the key to stabilizing international relations?
  29. Living with neighborhood violence may shape teens' brains
  30. Why religions of the world condemn suicide
  31. Can Facebook use AI to fight online abuse?
  32. Iran's mild response to unprecedented truckers' strike could be due to Trump's influence
  33. Stress is bad for your body, but how? Studying piglets may shed light
  34. School safety commission misses the mark by ignoring guns
  35. John McCain helped build a country that no longer reflects his values
  36. Tourism to the US is in a 'Trump slump' - truth or fiction?
  37. When does hungry become hangry?
  38. Bourdain, Spade suicides show how even those at the top can know the lows of depression
  39. Trump's presidency marks the first time in 24 years that the federal bench is becoming less diverse
  40. Detained immigrant children stay in shelters that are already full and aren't equipped for babies
  41. Why did the television reboot become all the rage?
  42. I visited the Rohingya camps in Myanmar and here is what I saw
  43. Mexico City's new airport is an environmental disaster but it could become a huge national park
  44. Increased deaths and illnesses from inhaling airborne dust: An understudied impact of climate change
  45. Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand religious behavior
  46. Memo to President Trump: Better ties between North and South Korea should come first – then get rid of nukes
  47. Rules-based trade made the world rich. Trump's policies may make it poorer
  48. Why predicting suicide is a difficult and complex challenge
  49. G7 summit: Trump could be using advanced game theory negotiating techniques – or he's hopelessly adrift
  50. Trump could be using advanced game theory negotiating techniques – or he's hopelessly adrift