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Most people support abortion staying legal, but that may not matter in making law

  • Written by Tarah Williams, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Allegheny College

The Supreme Court is set to soon rule on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, nearly one month after a leaked draft majority opinion showed the court might uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Ruling to uphold this ban could undo women’s constitutional right to abortion, guaranteed by Roe v. Wade...

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The lasting consequences of school shootings on the students who survive them

  • Written by Maya Rossin-Slater, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University
imageA girl grieves for a friend killed in the Uvalde shooting.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

As the U.S. reels from another school shooting, much of the public discussion has centered on the lives lost: 19 children and two adults. Indeed, the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is the second deadliest such incident on record, after...

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50 years of UN environmental diplomacy: What's worked and the trends ahead

  • Written by Mihaela Papa, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Sustainable Development and Global Governance, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imageNegotiations over the years have aimed to protect forests, biodiversity and the climate.Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images

In 1972, acid rain was destroying trees. Birds were dying from DDT poisoning, and countries were contending with oil spills, contamination from nuclear weapons testing and the environmental harm of the Vietnam War. Air...

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The Asian Canadian gay activist whose theories on sexuality were decades ahead of their time

  • Written by Laurie Marhoefer, Jon Bridgman Endowed Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
imageLi Shiu Tong, right, was the boyfriend and intellectual heir of German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.Imagno/Getty Images

Historians are rediscovering one of the most important LGBTQ activists of the early 20th Century – an Asian Canadian named Li Shiu Tong. You probably don’t know the name, but he was at the center of the first wave of...

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The Wall of Wind can blow away buildings at Category 5 hurricane strength to help engineers design safer homes – but even that isn't powerful enough

  • Written by Richard Olson, Director of the Extreme Events Institute, Florida International University
imageThe Wall of Wind can create Category 5 hurricane winds for testing life-size structures.Margi Rentis/Florida International University

In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the blink of an eye.

Yet they...

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What are HeLa cells? A cancer biologist explains

  • Written by Ivan Martinez, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, West Virginia University
imageCancer-causing viruses like HPV can cause cells to divide indefinitely and, in the case of Henrietta Lacks, become immortal.Tom Deerinck/NIH via Flickr, CC BY-NC

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical...

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Shavuot: A Jewish holiday of renewing commitment to God

  • Written by Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imageAn Ultra Orthodox Jewish man in Israel harvests wheat ahead of the holiday of Shavuot.AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. This gift, and the observance of Torah’s...

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Deaths and injuries in road crashes are a 'silent epidemic on wheels'

  • Written by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imagePedestrians pass the aftermath of a crash in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 11, 2021.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated mind-numbing statistics over the past two years: half a billion cases, 6 million deaths, 1 million in the U.S. alone. But another, less-publicized global scourge preceded it and is...

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One family's photo album includes images of a vacation, a wedding anniversary and the lynching of a Black man in Texas

  • Written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
imageIn this photo from Aug. 20, 1922, Gene Kemp and Mary 'Teddie' Kemp, at left, are seen with two friends.Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

As a historian and director of the Lynching in Texas project, which has documented more than 600 racial terror lynchings, I receive regular emails from journalists, scholars and activists who want to discuss the history of...

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If plastic comes from oil and gas, which come originally from plants, why isn’t it biodegradable?

  • Written by Yael Vodovotz, Professor of Food Science & Technology, The Ohio State University
imagePlastic trash accumulates in trees and shrubs along the Los Angeles River.Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Imagesimage

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