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Hurricane Michael could bring more inland flooding to southeast states

  • Written by Craig E. Colten, Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography, Louisiana State University
A street sign sticks up from floodwaters after Hurricane Florence in Nichols, South Carolina, September 21, 2018. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Coastal counties in North and South Carolina are still assessing damage from Hurricane Florence, which dropped up to three feet of rain in some areas in September. Now, along with southern Georgia, they face new...

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Youth living in settlements at US border suffer poverty and lack of health care

  • Written by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Professor of Social Work, Nursing and Global Public Health, New York University
Children play in the Indian Hills East Colonia near Alamo, Texas.AP Photo/Eric Gay

Recent media stories from the U.S.-Mexico border about immigration have largely missed the daily struggle of families and children in U.S. communities called “colonias.”

Colonias line both sides of the border, including the southern counties of Texas,...

Read more: Youth living in settlements at US border suffer poverty and lack of health care

La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio: 6 consejos para evitarlo

  • Written by Elizabeth Englander, Professor of Psychology, and the Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC), Bridgewater State University
Los teléfonos móviles conllevan ciertos riesgos para los estudiantes de educación primaria.Rido/www.shutterstock.com

Cada año más padres dejan a sus hijos llevar un teléfono inteligente al colegio.

Por ejemplo, en Estados Unidos el porcentaje de estudiantes de tercero de primaria que tienen teléfono...

Read more: La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio:...

La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio: seis consejos para evitarlo

  • Written by Elizabeth Englander, Professor of Psychology, and the Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC), Bridgewater State University
Los teléfonos móviles conllevan ciertos riesgos para los estudiantes de educación primaria.Rido/www.shutterstock.com

Cada año más padres dejan a sus hijos llevar un teléfono inteligente al colegio.

Por ejemplo, en Estados Unidos el porcentaje de estudiantes de tercero de primaria que tienen teléfono...

Read more: La relación entre el acoso escolar y el uso de teléfonos móviles en el colegio:...

It's naive to think college athletes have time for school

  • Written by Jasmine Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ursinus College
The demands of college sports often take precedence over education.Don Feria/AP

From my first day as a sociology professor at a university with a Division I football and men’s basketball team, education and athletics struck me as being inherently at odds.

Student-athletes filled my courses to take advantage of the fact that the classes met ear...

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Nobel award recognizes how economic forces can fight climate change

  • Written by Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
William Nordhaus argues markets can help curb climate change.AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change and advocating the use of a carbon tax to curb global warming.

It’s no small irony, then, that on the same day his research shared in the Nobel...

Read more: Nobel award recognizes how economic forces can fight climate change

An Indonesian city’s destruction reverberates across Sulawesi

  • Written by Jennifer Nourse, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Richmond
A bridge in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, was destroyed in the recent earthquake and tsunami.AP Photo/Aaron Favila

I’ve been visiting the city of Palu in Central Sulawesi, a province in Indonesia, for the past 38 years as part of my anthropological fieldwork.

So it was particularly harrowing for me to read about the 7.7 magnitude...

Read more: An Indonesian city’s destruction reverberates across Sulawesi

Why we can't reverse climate change with 'negative emissions' technologies

  • Written by Howard J. Herzog, Senior Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Without rapid and dramatic changes, the world will face a higher risk of extreme weather and other effects of climate change.AP Photo/Mike Groll

In a much-anticipated report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the world will need to take dramatic and drastic steps to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Featured...

Read more: Why we can't reverse climate change with 'negative emissions' technologies

Justice Kavanaugh is a threat to Roe v. Wade – but not the only one

  • Written by B. Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
President Donald Trump with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his swearing in. AP Photo/Susan Walsh

With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, some are wondering: Will Roe v. Wade, the landmark case recognizing a woman’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, continue to be the law of the land?

Kavanaugh...

Read more: Justice Kavanaugh is a threat to Roe v. Wade – but not the only one

Meet the trillions of viruses that make up your virome

  • Written by David Pride, Associate Director of Microbiology, University of California San Diego
Every surface of our body -- inside and out -- is covered in microorganisms: bacteria, viruses, fungi and many other microscopic life forms.vrx/Shutterstock.com

If you think you don’t have viruses, think again.

It may be hard to fathom, but the human body is occupied by large collections of microorganisms, commonly referred to as our...

Read more: Meet the trillions of viruses that make up your virome

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  2. The Catholic Church's grim history of ignoring priestly pedophilia – and silencing would-be whistleblowers
  3. Statistics and data science degrees: Overhyped or the real deal?
  4. 'Disillusioned' Brazilians choose Bolsonaro, Haddad after a tense and violent campaign
  5. Could villains clone themselves to take over the world?
  6. Amazon and other 'superstar' companies could give all American workers a raise
  7. Why more women don't win science Nobels
  8. Warriors against sexual violence win Nobel Peace Prize: 4 essential reads
  9. Columbus believed he would find 'blemmyes' and 'sciapods' – not people – in the New World
  10. How the loss of Native American languages affects our understanding of the natural world
  11. Beto O'Rourke won't beat Ted Cruz in Texas – here's why
  12. Could an artificial intelligence be considered a person under the law?
  13. For mothers who lose their babies, donating breast milk is a healing ritual
  14. 'Bystander effect' and sexual assault: What the research says
  15. Massacres, disappearances and 1968: Mexicans remember the victims of a 'perfect dictatorship'
  16. 'Coming of Age in Mississippi' still speaks to nation's racial discord, 50 years later
  17. 5 habilidades matemáticas que los niños en edad preescolar deben aprender: enséñeselas de forma divertida
  18. Why trade deficits aren't so bad
  19. Does a man's social class have anything to do with the likelihood he'll commit sexual assault?
  20. Controversial young adult novel offers insight into Kavanaugh hearings, sexual assault
  21. Think journalism's a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age
  22. Nobel goes to chemists who learned to 'hack' evolution in the lab
  23. Success of immunotherapy stimulates future pigment cell and melanoma research
  24. A proposed tax break for the masses designed to spur giving
  25. Interruptions at Supreme Court confirmation hearings have been rising since the 1980s
  26. New materials are powering the battery revolution
  27. Sexism, racism drive black women to run for office in both Brazil and US
  28. Sexism, racism drive more black women to run for office in both Brazil and US
  29. Después de un desastre: enviar ayuda a donde más se necesita
  30. Fishing forecasts can predict marine creature movements
  31. 50 years old, '2001: A Space Odyssey' still offers insight about the future
  32. 4 things journalists can do to rebuild trust with the public
  33. Ted Turner has Lewy body dementia, but what is that?
  34. How should we judge people for their past moral failings?
  35. Charities take digital money now – and the risks that go with it
  36. 2018 Nobel Prize for physics goes to tools made from light beams – a particle physicist explains
  37. Refugiados de Venezuela huyen a ciudades latinoamericanas, no a campos de refugiados
  38. Refugiados venezolanos inundan las ciudades latinoamericanas
  39. 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: a turning point in the war on cancer
  40. Kavanaugh sexual assault hearing evokes early Soviet mock trials
  41. Heat is a serious threat to dairy cows – we're finding innovative ways to keep them cool
  42. Why we're training the next generation of lawyers in big data
  43. Safe, efficient self-driving cars could block walkable, livable communities
  44. The Catholic Church resists change – but Vatican II shows it's possible
  45. Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies
  46. Kids with cellphones more likely to be bullies – or get bullied. Here are 6 tips for parents
  47. Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped shape the modern era of women's rights – before she went on the Supreme Court
  48. Most men do not perpetrate sexual violence against women
  49. How is 'new NAFTA' different? A trade expert explains
  50. The Left’s Gift to Nixon