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Chronic pain after trauma may depend on what stress gene variation you carry

  • Written by Sarah Linnstaedt, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
More than 100 million American suffer from chronic pain -- in which pain signals continue in the nervous system for weeks, months, or even years. pathdoc/Shutterstock.com

Unfortunately, almost every individual in the world will experience at least one traumatic event, such as a car crash, assault, exposure to war combat or a natural disaster during...

Read more: Chronic pain after trauma may depend on what stress gene variation you carry

Petróleo venezolano provoca el auge y caída del régimen de Ortega en Nicaragua

  • Written by Benjamin Waddell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College

La popularidad del presidente de Nicaragua Daniel Ortega ha disminuido drásticamente.

En enero del 2018, obtuvo el más alto nivel de aprobación entre los presidentes centroamericanos, con un 54 por ciento de apoyo. Hoy los nicaragüenses piden la renuncia inmediata de Ortega.

Ortega, el ex guerrillero sandinista que...

Read more: Petróleo venezolano provoca el auge y caída del régimen de Ortega en Nicaragua

El petróleo venezolano provoca el auge y caída del régimen de Ortega en Nicaragua

  • Written by Benjamin Waddell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College

La popularidad del presidente de Nicaragua Daniel Ortega ha disminuido drásticamente.

En enero del 2018, obtuvo el más alto nivel de aprobación entre los presidentes centroamericanos, con un 54 por ciento de apoyo. Hoy los nicaragüenses piden la renuncia inmediata de Ortega.

Ortega, el ex guerrillero sandinista que...

Read more: El petróleo venezolano provoca el auge y caída del régimen de Ortega en Nicaragua

Glioblastoma topples an American hero, but researchers will continue the fight

  • Written by Duane Mitchell, Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Florida
Sen. John McCain pictured on July 27, 2017. McCain returned to Washington after surgery for glioblastoma to cast a 'no' vote to a Republican-backed bill to repeal Obamacare.Cliff Owen/AP Photo

Sen. John McCain withstood beatings and torture as a prisoner of war, but he was confronted with an enemy in July 2017 that he was ultimately unable to...

Read more: Glioblastoma topples an American hero, but researchers will continue the fight

Why you can smell rain

  • Written by Tim Logan, Instructional Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
Your nose knows what's on the way.Lucy Chian/Unsplash, CC BY

When those first fat drops of summer rain fall to the hot, dry ground, have you ever noticed a distinctive odor? I have childhood memories of family members who were farmers describing how they could always “smell rain” right before a storm.

Of course rain itself has no scent....

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Why it's so hard to hold priests accountable for sex abuse

  • Written by Carolyn M. Warner, Associate Director of Graduate Studies & Professor, Arizona State University

A grand jury report recently found shocking levels of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. It uncovered, in six dioceses, the sexual abuse of over 1,000 children and named 301 perpetrator priests. It also found that religious officials had turned a blind eye to the abuse.

In response, Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, wrote a...

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Turkish currency isn't the real problem for Erdoğan, it's democracy

  • Written by Gary M. Grossman, Associate Director, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip ErdoganAP/Presidential Press Service pool photo

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is presiding over the damaging loss of value of the Turkish currency, the lira, against foreign currencies. It’s the most severe economic crisis the country has faced since he assumed power.

Erdoğan has been the...

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Qatar's $15 billion snub of Trump over Turkey puts another key US relationship in Middle East at risk

  • Written by Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University

The U.S. and Qatar have been key allies for decades, with close military and economic ties. Qatar is home to the United States’ biggest base in the region, and in turn the U.S. has pledged to protect the small, oil rich country that juts out into the Persian Gulf.

But the relationship is being tested like never before by the latest example...

Read more: Qatar's $15 billion snub of Trump over Turkey puts another key US relationship in Middle East at...

The few humanities majors who dominate in the business world

  • Written by Sami Mahroum, Senior Lecturer, INSEAD
Students often believe a STEM degree will serve them better in the job market.M-SUR/shutterstock

In the mid-1990s, technology-driven economic growth induced a strong demand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, skills.

This development came at the expense of humanities and liberal arts.

More people, especially women, enrolled...

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Far-sighted adaptation to rising seas is blocked by just fixing eroded beaches

  • Written by Andrew G. Keeler, Professor of Economics and Program Head, Public Policy and Coastal Sustainability, UNC Coastal Studies Institute, East Carolina University
Beach erosion in Nags Head, North Carolina, photographed May 15, 2005.Soil Science, CC BY

Coastal communities around the world are struggling to adapt to rising sea levels and increasingly severe coastal storms. In the United States, local governments are making investments to reduce those risks, such as protecting shorelines with seawalls,...

Read more: Far-sighted adaptation to rising seas is blocked by just fixing eroded beaches

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  1. India has a sexual assault problem that only women can fix
  2. La devaluación 'desesperada' de la moneda de Venezuela no evitará un colapso económico
  3. Could the future edge in college sports be mental wellness?
  4. If you shelter in place during a disaster, be ready for challenges after the storm
  5. A Trump Administration casualty: Democracy and civil rights in the Middle East
  6. What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death
  7. Hurricane season not only brings destruction and death but rising inequality too
  8. Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact
  9. Michael Cohen’s guilty plea? ‘Nothing to see here’
  10. Teens who feel down may benefit from picking others up
  11. Why the US has the campaign finance laws that Michael Cohen broke and what their history means for Trump
  12. There's a dark history to the campaign finance laws Michael Cohen broke — and that should worry Trump
  13. ¿Quiere ahorrar en sus viajes? Piense como un economista
  14. A year after Hurricane Harvey, some Texans are using outdated flood risk maps to rebuild
  15. Despite predictions of their demise, college textbooks aren't going away
  16. Child pornography may make a comeback after court ruling guts regulations protecting minors
  17. Trump's coal plan – neither clean nor affordable
  18. For some Catholics, it is demons that taunt priests with sexual desire
  19. Could college textbooks soon get cheaper?
  20. Would you eat 'meat' from a lab? Consumers aren't necessarily sold on 'cultured meat'
  21. Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon
  22. ¿Qué tan decisivo será el 'voto latino' anti-Trump en las elecciones intermedias de EEUU?
  23. An alternative to propping up coal power plants: Retrain workers for solar
  24. What makes some species more likely to go extinct?
  25. Is China worsening the developing world's environmental crisis?
  26. Venezuela's 'desperate' currency devaluation won't save its economy from collapse
  27. Mentors play critical role in quality of college experience, new poll suggests
  28. How many babies in the US are wanted? Why it's so hard to count unintended pregnancy
  29. Many native animals and birds thrive in burned forests, research shows
  30. The lies we tell on dating apps to find love
  31. Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia's changing climate
  32. When losing one's research partner is like losing a part of oneself
  33. Venezuelan oil fueled the rise and fall of Nicaragua's Ortega regime
  34. China’s garbage ban upends US recycling – is it time to reconsider incineration?
  35. New antidote could prevent brain damage after chemical weapons attack
  36. Ban 'killer robots' to protect fundamental moral and legal principles
  37. Civil lawsuits are the only way to hold bishops accountable for abuse cover-ups
  38. Swift's telescope reveals birth, deaths and collisions of stars through 1 million snapshots in UV
  39. Saving the brain with a new nerve agent antidote
  40. Turkey's currency collapse shows just how vulnerable its economy is to a crisis
  41. Why it matters that teens are reading less
  42. How the Trump Foundation illustrates the limits of charity regulations
  43. Advertising is obsolete – here's why it's time to end it
  44. Stop worrying about how much energy bitcoin uses
  45. Dangerous stereotypes stalk black college athletes
  46. You don't have to look far to find human trafficking victims
  47. Tons of plastic trash enter the Great Lakes every year – where does it go?
  48. Genetically modified mosquitoes may be best weapon for curbing disease transmission
  49. Three reasons the US is not ready for the next pandemic
  50. 4 reasons why anti-Trump Latino voters won't swing the midterms