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Defending space for free discussion, empathy and tolerance on campus is a challenge during Israel-Hamas war

  • Written by: David Mednicoff, Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
imageStudents at UMass Amherst march across campus following a walkout and rally protesting the university's "ties with war profiteers," while also calling for "a ceasefire and end of the blockade on Gaza." Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

College and university campuses across the U.S. have seen polarization and unrest since the Israel-...

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Biden's executive order puts civil rights in the middle of the AI regulation discussion

  • Written by: Margaret Hu, Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, Director, Digital Democracy Lab, William & Mary
imageVice President Kamala Harris held a meeting with civil rights leaders and consumer protection experts about the societal impact of AI on July 12, 2023.Mandel NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

On Oct. 4, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: A Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in...

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Vampire viruses prey on other viruses to replicate themselves − and may hold the key to new antiviral therapies

  • Written by: Ivan Erill, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageThe satellite virus MiniFlayer (purple) infects cells by attaching itself to the neck of its helper virus, MindFlayer (gray). Tagide deCarvalho, CC BY-SA

Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold can catch one itself? It may comfort you to know that, yes, viruses can actually get sick. Even better, as karmic justice would...

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We analyzed over 3.5 million written teacher comments about students and found racial bias

  • Written by: Angus Kittelman, Assistant Professor of Special Education, University of Missouri-Columbia
imageTeachers had more negative comments about Black boys than they did about other groups.aldomurillo/E+ via Getty Images

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

Written teacher comments about students can show implicit racial or ethnic and gender biases in school discipline, according to our recent study.

To identify these...

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The world's boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward

  • Written by: Ronny Rotbarth, Ph.D. Candidate of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Ecology, Wageningen University
imageA brown bear in a Siberian boreal forest.Logan Berner, CC BY-ND

Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada,...

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Understanding that chronic back pain originates from within the brain could lead to quicker recovery, a new study finds

  • Written by: Yoni Ashar, Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageApproximately 16 million U.S. adults have chronic back pain.Olena Ruban/Moment via Getty Images

Most people with chronic back pain naturally think their pain is caused by injuries or other problems in the body such as arthritis or bulging disks. But our research team has found that thinking about the root cause of pain as a process that’s...

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What is intersectionality? A scholar of organizational behavior explains

  • Written by: Christina Hymer, Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Tennessee
imageCivil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw speaks in New York City on Feb. 7, 2015. Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images

In modern conversations on race and politics, a popular buzzword has emerged to describe the impact of belonging to multiple social categories.

Known as intersectionality, the social theory has a complex history and refers...

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NASA's robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of – setting the stage for miners to follow someday

  • Written by: Valerie Payré, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa
imageMining an asteroid probably won't look exactly like mining does on Earth, but some principles will stay the same. posteriori/iStock via Getty Images

The cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand from the electronics industry for these metals is...

Read more: NASA's robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of – setting...

Modern medicine has its scientific roots in the Middle Ages − how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today

  • Written by: Meg Leja, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageThis 15th-century medical manuscript shows different colors of urine alongside the ailments they signify.Cambridge University Library, CC BY-NC

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. “The Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York...

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Biden administration executive order tackles AI risks, but lack of privacy laws limits reach

  • Written by: Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
imageThe Biden administration rolled out an executive order on AI that contains a mix of rules, guidelines and priorities.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The comprehensive, even sweeping, set of guidelines for artificial intelligence that the White House unveiled in an executive order on Oct. 30, 2023, show that the U.S. government is attempting to...

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  2. Texas tried to fix its teacher shortage by lowering requirements − the result was more new teachers, but at lower salaries
  3. Secure attachment to both parents − not just mothers − boosts children’s healthy development
  4. How Houthi attacks affect both the Israel-Hamas conflict and Yemen's own civil war – and could put pressure on US, Saudi Arabia
  5. Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes
  6. Friendship research is getting an update – and that's key for dealing with the loneliness epidemic
  7. Endometriosis afflicts millions of women, but few people feel comfortable talking about it
  8. Despite his government's failure to anticipate Hamas' deadly attack, don't count Netanyahu out politically
  9. What exactly caused the explosion at a hospital in Gaza? Without an independent, credible investigation, it will be hard for everyone to agree
  10. Rupert Murdoch's empire was built on a shrewd understanding of how media and power work
  11. Cancer has many faces − 5 counterintuitive ways scientists are approaching cancer research to improve treatment and prevention
  12. A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball − today, no Black majority owners remain
  13. American individualism lives on after death, as consumers choose new ways to put their remains to rest
  14. Language induces an identity crisis for the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants
  15. 3 reasons the House GOP is not any more dysfunctional than the Democrats − even after the prolonged speaker chaos
  16. Young, female voters were the key to defeating populists in Poland's election – providing a blueprint to reverse democracy's decline
  17. Are journalists serving Virginia's voters well? Election could offer insights on media on national level
  18. Trump’s violent rhetoric echoes the fascist commitment to a destructive and bloody rebirth of society
  19. From India and Taiwan to Tibet, the living assist the dead in their passage
  20. Workplace discrimination saps everyone's motivation − even if it works in your favor
  21. How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween's theme song
  22. Jewish response to Hamas war criticism comes from deep sense of trauma, active grief and fear
  23. Collaborative water management can be a building block for peace between Israelis and Palestinians
  24. Palestinian Christians and Muslims have lived together in the region for centuries − and several were killed recently while sheltering in the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius
  25. Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a 'Mexican Halloween'
  26. In the Israel-Hamas war, children are the ultimate pawns – and ultimate victims
  27. This course uses big data to examine how American newspapers covered lynchings
  28. United Auto Workers union hails strike-ending deals with automakers that would raise top assembly-plant hourly pay to more than $40 as 'record contracts'
  29. Violent and disturbing war images from the Mideast can stir deep emotions − a PTSD expert explains how to protect yourself and your kids from overexposure
  30. Louisiana's 'In God We Trust' law tests limits of religion in public schools
  31. White patients are more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in US emergency departments
  32. How to deal with visual misinformation circulating in the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts
  33. Asteroids in the solar system could contain undiscovered, superheavy elements
  34. Why Elon Musk is obsessed with casting X as the most 'authentic' social media platform
  35. A Halloween party in Boston turned ugly when a gang hurled antisemitic slurs and attacked Jewish teenagers
  36. AIs could soon run businesses – it’s an opportunity to ensure these 'artificial persons' follow the law
  37. 'I see no happy ending' − a former national security leader on the Gaza hostage situation
  38. Back in the 1960s, the push for parental rights over school standards was not led by white conservatives but by Black and Latino parents
  39. UN warns that Gaza desperately needs more aid − an emergency relief expert explains why it is especially tough working in Gaza
  40. I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors
  41. To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature
  42. Public schools and faith-based chaplains: Texas’ new combination is testing the First Amendment
  43. Turkey faces competing pressures from Russia and the West to end its 'middleman strategy' and pick a side on the war in Ukraine
  44. FDA advisory panel's conclusion that oral phenylephrine is ineffective means consumers need to think twice when buying cold and flu meds
  45. How often do you lie? Deception researchers investigate how the recipient and the medium affect telling the truth
  46. New House Speaker Mike Johnson leads a GOP majority weakened by decades of declining party authority
  47. When communities face drinking-water crises, bottled water is a 'temporary' solution that often lasts years − and worsens inequality
  48. Polls have value, even when they are wrong
  49. Antisemitism has moved from the right to the left in the US − and falls back on long-standing stereotypes
  50. What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections