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Why are some Americans changing their names?

  • Written by Kirsten Fermaglich, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
For decades, native-born American Jews changed their names to improve their job prospects.Billion Photos/Shutterstock.com

In 2008, Newsweek published an article on then-presidential candidate Barack Obama titled “From Barry to Barack.”

The story explained how Obama’s Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., chose Barry as a nickname for...

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Sci-fi movies are the secret weapon that could help Silicon Valley grow up

  • Written by Andrew Maynard, Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
If you don't want to be facing down an angry dinosaur, pay attention to what happens on screen.Universal Pictures

If there’s one line that stands the test of time in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic “Jurassic Park,” it’s probably Jeff Goldblum’s exclamation, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether...

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Maine congressional election an important test of ranked-choice voting

  • Written by Steven Mulroy, Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
With no candidate taking a majority of the overall vote, election officials will be counting ballots again under Maine's new ranked-choice voting system.AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

In Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, an innovative vote-counting system is having its trial run in a federal election.

No candidate received a majority of the...

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Why covering the environment is one of the most dangerous beats in journalism

  • Written by Eric Freedman, Professor of Journalism and Chair, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University
Journalists who cover illegal operations like logging at this site in northern Sagaing division, Myanmar, can face threats and violence. AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe

From the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi by Saudi agents to President Trump’s clashes with the White House press corps, attacks on reporters are in the news. This...

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Fine particle air pollution is a public health emergency hiding in plain sight

  • Written by Douglas Brugge, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
A Kosovo policeman directs cars in Pristina after the government banned traffic in response to extremely high fine particle pollution levels, Jan. 31, 2018.AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu

Ambient air pollution is the largest environmental health problem in the United States and in the world more generally. Fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 millionths...

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3 ways the women's movement in US politics is misunderstood

  • Written by Deana Rohlinger, Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey after winning the election.AP Photo/Butch Dill

A record number of women are headed to statehouses and Capitol Hill in 2019. One hundred women were elected to the U.S. House, which means that at least 121 women will serve in the 116th Congress – up from the current 107.

Twelve women were elected to the U.S. Senate. This...

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Why politicians are the real winners in Amazon's HQ2 bidding war

  • Written by Nathan Jensen, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
For cities that lost like New Jersey, there may be more than one way to win.AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Now that Amazon has announced the winners of its competition to host its second headquarters, a question on many minds is whether it’ll be worth the incentives offered.

We have a different question: Why did so many cities play Amazon’s...

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Hay una solución sencilla a la falta de sueño de los jóvenes

  • Written by Adriana Galván, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Una buena noche de sueño se reduce a tener un lugar cómodo donde apoyar la cabeza.Marisa Harris/Unsplash, CC BY

Los neurocientíficos han lanzado el siguiente mensaje: un sueño sano es sinónimo de un cerebro sano.

Pero no es tan fácil identificar qué hacer para mejorar el sueño. Algunos padres...

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A county in Idaho offered Spanish-language ballots for the first time and here's what happened

  • Written by Gabe Osterhout, Research Associate, Idaho Policy Institute, Boise State University

On the morning of Election Day, the top trending search on Google was “donde votar,” which means “where to vote” in Spanish.

Voter access to the polls was a major issue during the 2018 midterm elections in the U.S. Charges of voter suppression were made in in Georgia and North Dakota. Critics of new voting rules claimed they...

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Craigslist can cut solid waste, one used sofa at a time

  • Written by Suvrat Dhanorkar, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Pennsylvania State University
Trash or treasure?trekandshoot/Shutterstock.com

The average American generates about 1,500 pounds of garbage annually, and then spends lots of tax dollars disposing of it.

Even as recycling has taken off across the country in recent decades, the volume of all this trash has kept growing – albeit at a slower pace.

Since I research how people...

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  2. Partial mycoheterotrophs: The green plants that feed on fungi
  3. Skipping a few thousand years: Rapid domestication of the groundcherry using gene editing
  4. The counties where the anti-vaccine movement thrives in the US
  5. Can artisanal weed compete with 'Big Marijuana'?
  6. Will China help Trump denuclearize North Korea?
  7. Trump's new Iranian oil sanctions may inflict pain at home without serving strategic objectives
  8. Move more, sit less – great advice, but how can we make time for exercise?
  9. Neuroscientists identify a surprising low-tech fix to the problem of sleep-deprived teens
  10. Why space debris cleanup might be a national security threat
  11. The world's plastic problem is bigger than the ocean
  12. Why the history of messianic Judaism is so fraught and complicated
  13. Volcanic eruptions once caused mass extinctions in the oceans – could climate change do the same?
  14. More American students are studying abroad, new data show
  15. Measuring racial profiling: Why it's hard to tell where police are treating minorities unfairly
  16. Commemorating the 'Great War,' America's forgotten conflict
  17. Cómo entender las cifras en las noticias: Tres trucos estadísticos
  18. 5 things to know about Fabiano Caruana and his quest to become world chess champion
  19. Americans got to vote on lots of energy measures in 2018 – and mostly rejected them
  20. What mass shootings do to those not shot: Social consequences of mass gun violence
  21. Myths and unknowns about chess and the contenders for the World Chess Championship
  22. The early-20th century German trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of his time
  23. Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?
  24. 3 things Jeff Sessions did as attorney general that history should remember
  25. How many women does it take to change a broken Congress?
  26. As Arctic ship traffic increases, narwhals and other unique animals are at risk
  27. Trump's tariffs don't apply to American flag imports from China – but they should
  28. Singles Day shows China's global retail power
  29. Americans elected mayors who care about climate change
  30. The 116th Congress has more women and people of color than ever – but there's still room to improve
  31. Veterans have fought in wars – and fought against them
  32. On the 100th anniversary of WWI's end, lessons on life in health care's trenches
  33. Elecciones EEUU: Población latina puede ser una fuerza electoral en 2020
  34. Blasphemy law is repealed in Ireland, enforced in Pakistan – and a problem in many Christian and Muslim countries
  35. What is public service loan forgiveness? And how do I qualify to get it?
  36. How a self-powered glucose-monitoring device could help people with diabetes
  37. How the ‘wave of women’ entering congress could turn the #MeToo movement into concrete action
  38. The other 2018 midterm wave: A historic 10-point jump in turnout among young people
  39. #MeToo could become a national reckoning – if the new House treats it like a financial crisis
  40. Driving autonomous cars off the beaten path
  41. The votes have been counted, the results are (mostly) in: What’s next for health care?
  42. Left behind: The midterm view from Iowa
  43. The US government has huge debts, and House Democrats could lead the way on solutions – an economist explains how
  44. Coloradans reject restrictions on drilling distances from homes and schools
  45. Latinos can be an electoral force in 2020
  46. La gripe sobrevive más de una hora en el aire y en las superficies
  47. Which country is best to live in? Our calculations say it's not Norway
  48. Experiments with optical tweezers race to test the laws of quantum mechanics
  49. Concussion prevention: Sorting through the science to see what's sound
  50. What's behind the dramatic rise in 3-generation households?