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Will US energy policy push fossil fuels or renewable energy? Six essential reads

  • Written by Martin LaMonica, Deputy Editor, Environment & Energy Editor, The Conversation

Editor’s note: The following is a collection of recent articles on U.S. energy and climate policy.

The United States is blessed with many energy resources: huge fossil fuels reserves and substantial renewable energy potential, from offshore wind to geothermal power. It’s also a signatory to the Paris Agreement on climate change and has...

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Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are harming diplomacy more than the Clinton campaign

  • Written by Paul Webster Hare, Senior Lecturer at the Frederick S Pardee School in Global Studies, Boston University, Boston University

The U.S. election has given WikiLeaks an opportunity to revive its image as a world leader in “transparency” leaks.

For several years, its leader, Julian Assange, seemed a forlorn and frustrated figure confined to a small office of the Ecuadorian embassy near the Harrods department store in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood....

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Deep underground, smartphones can save miners' lives

  • Written by Sudeep Pasricha, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science , Colorado State University

American mining production increased earlier this decade, as industry sought to reduce its reliance on other countries for key minerals such as coal for energy and rare-earth metals for use in consumer electronics. But mining is dangerous – working underground carries risks of explosions, fires, flooding and dangerous concentrations of...

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Turning diamonds' defects into long-term 3-D data storage

  • Written by Siddharth Dhomkar, Postdoctoral Associate in Physics, City College of New York
imageDiamonds are a data storers' best friend?Diamond image via www.shutterstock.com

With the amount of data storage required for our daily lives growing and growing, and currently available technology being almost saturated, we’re in desparate need of a new method of data storage. The standard magnetic hard disk drive (HDD) – like...

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Three reasons the US doesn't have universal health coverage

  • Written by Timothy Callaghan, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Amidst the partisan rancor and the unusual tilt toward questions on civility during the second and third presidential debates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump drew the attention of health experts when they articulated their path forward for health policy in America.

Responding to questions about the lack of affordability in the Affordable Care...

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Here's how the next president could work with Congress to fix Obamacare

  • Written by J.B. Silvers, Professor of Health Finance, Case Western Reserve University

As we all know by now, The Donald wants to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act while Hillary wants to fix it. But what does that mean, and how would they do it?

The first question is what exactly do they want to repeal or fix. The ACA seems to have evolved into a great political Rorschach test somewhat devoid of real content but relying on...

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Preserving fright, one haunted house at a time

  • Written by Joel Zika, Lecturer In Visual Communication Design, Deakin University
imageA virtual reality scene – one for each eye – of a haunted ride.Joel Zika, CC BY-NC

I vividly remember my first haunted house ride – it was at the local fairgrounds, just a temporary carnival truck, more façade than ride. I must have been about seven or eight, and I insisted on bringing along a flashlight. I was quite a...

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What's at risk if scientists don't think strategically before talking politics

  • Written by John Besley, Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Michigan State University
imageScientists have a lot to contribute – and a lot to lose. Mic image via www.shutterstock.com.

Earlier this fall, the nonpartisan nonprofit ScienceDebate.org released Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s responses to a set of questions about science policy. Shortly after, a group of 375 scientists wrote an open letter focused...

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Here's why our next president should block AT T's Time Warner tie-up

  • Written by Richard Lachmann, Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York

AT&T’s plan to buy Time Warner for US$85.4 billion is only the latest of a string of mega corporate mergers that have been announced in recent years.

That deal would combine the second-largest U.S. cellphone carrier with one of the biggest content producers in the world, with cable networks including HBO, TBS and CNN, as well as Warner...

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