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Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering skills – podcast

  • Written by Daniel Merino, Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
imageBeavers dramatically change a landscape by building dams that create ponds of still water.Jerzy Strzelecki/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Whether you are looking at tropical forests in Brazil, grasslands in California or coral reefs in Australia, it is hard to find places where humanity hasn’t left a mark. The scale of the alteration, invasion...

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What's effective altruism? A philosopher explains

  • Written by Jacob Bauer, Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Dayton
imageTech billionaire Dustin Mosovitz is one of the world's wealthiest effective altruists.Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

Effective altruism is an intellectual and charitable movement that aspires to find the best ways to help others. People dedicated to it rely on evidence and rational arguments to identify what they can do to make the...

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Ukraine has a mixed record of treating its citizens fairly – that could make it harder for it to maintain peace, once the war ends

  • Written by David Cingranelli, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageUkraine has a mixed human rights record over the past several decades, new data shows.Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the dominant Western media narrative has been clear – Russia is the “global villain,” and Ukraine a model country victimized by an unjust war. But while the war...

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People blame and judge parents for children's heavier weights

  • Written by Jaimie Arona Krems, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University
imageWould you hold the mother responsible for her daughter's weight?Courtesy of Steve Neuberg, Arizona State University, and Jaimie Krems, Oklahoma State University

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Americans stigmatize parents of heavier children, specifically blaming them for their children’s weights,...

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How California's ambitious new climate plan could help speed energy transformation around the world

  • Written by Daniel Sperling, Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
imageElectrifying trucks and cars and shifting to renewable energy are crucial for California's zero-emissions future.Sergio Pitamitz / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California is embarking on an audacious new climate plan that aims to eliminate the state’s greenhouse gas footprint by 2045, and in the process, slash emissions far...

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Debates over sacred images in the Byzantine Empire show why it's hard to appease any side

  • Written by Paroma Chatterjee, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Michigan
imageThe depiction of Prophet Muhammad at Hamline University has opened up a debate about what sacred images can or cannot be shown in a classroom.Friscocali via Flickr, CC BY-NC

An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an image of Prophet Muhammad in an art history class, which some students and administrators...

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Prince Harry's kill count revelation could spark important discussions about war's effects on soldiers

  • Written by L. William Uhl, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy
imagePrince Harry's new book "Spare" is stirring discussion about whether he should have revealed the number of warfighters that he killed.Anwar Hussein / Getty Images

When Prince Harry revealed in his new book, “Spare,” that he killed 25 Taliban fighters as an Apache helicopter pilot, he compared their deaths to “chess pieces removed...

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US will give military tanks to Ukraine, signaling Western powers' long-term commitment to thwarting Russia

  • Written by Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imageM1 Abrams, a third-generation American main battle tanks, are seen in Poland in September 2022. Artur Widak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 25, 2023, that the U.S. would send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine – following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s repeated requests for more military tanks...

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COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcounts'

  • Written by Andrew Stokes, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
imageAn accurate count of COVID-19 deaths is critical both scientifically and politically. Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official COVID-19 death statistics in the U.S. accurately capture the fatalities associated with SARS-CoV-2, the virus...

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Even bivalent updated COVID-19 boosters struggle to prevent omicron subvariant transmission – an immunologist discusses why new approaches are necessary

  • Written by Matthew Woodruff, Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University
imageThe FDA is proposing an annual shot against COVID-19, signaling that a new approach is needed.wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus

By almost any measure, the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been a global success.

As of January 2023, more than 12 billion vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have been...

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