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Why do people get diarrhea?

  • Written by Hannibal Person, Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageNo matter its cause, diarrhea is uncomfortable.Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Moment via Getty Imagesimage

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Why do people get diarrhea? – A.A.A., age 10, Philadelphia

The digestive system breaks down...

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Technology is revolutionizing how intelligence is gathered and analyzed – and opening a window onto Russian military activity around Ukraine

  • Written by Craig Nazareth, Assistant Professor of Practice of Intelligence & Information Operations, University of Arizona
imageCommercial satellite companies provide views once reserved for governments, like this image of a Russian military training facility in Crimea.Satellite image (c) 2021 Maxar Technologies via Getty Images

The U.S. has been warning for weeks about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine, and threatening retaliation if it does. Just eight years...

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First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

  • Written by Miguel Sena-Esteves, Associate Professor of Neurology, UMass Chan Medical School
imageAbout 1 in 300 people in the general population carry the Tay-Sachs disease gene.Ray Kachatorian/Stone via Getty Images

Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development.

Tay-Sachs is a severe neurological disease caused by a deficiency in an enzyme called HexA. This enzyme breaks down a...

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What do students’ beliefs about God have to do with grades and going to college?

  • Written by Ilana Horwitz, Assistant Professor, Fields-Rayant Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life, Tulane University
imageHow do students' religious lives influence their academic ones?Image Source via Getty Images

In America, the demographic circumstances of a child’s birth substantially shape academic success. Sociologists have spent decades studying how factors beyond students’ control – including the race, wealth and ZIP code of their parents...

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Physics and psychology of cats – an (improbable) conversation

  • Written by Beth Daley, Editor and General Manager
imageAccording to researcher Marc-Antoine Fardin, under the right circumstances, cats’ bodies can behave like liquids.Nevena Uzurov/Moment via Getty Images

Have you wondered why cats are so nimble and seem to fit perfectly in cups, boxes and other small places? Or how cats communicate with humans?

Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable...

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How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

  • Written by Jason Miller, Professor of English, North Carolina State University
imageSylvia Plath wrote a series of 14 intensely personal letters to her psychologist that were only recently uncovered.Amy T. Zielinski/Getty Images

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the...

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How Russia hooked Europe on its oil and gas – and overcame US efforts to prevent energy dependence on Moscow

  • Written by Ryan Haddad, Research Affiliate at the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, University of Maryland
imageIs it a weapon or merely trade? AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky

The Biden administration hopes its threat of “severe economic consequences” deters Russia from invading Ukraine – an event Americans officials say could be imminent.

In response, the U.S. said it may ban the export of microchips and other technologies to critical sectors...

Read more: How Russia hooked Europe on its oil and gas – and overcame US efforts to prevent energy dependence...

What is the ‘social cost of carbon’? 2 energy experts explain after court ruling blocks Biden's changes

  • Written by Jim Krane, Fellow for Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy; Lecturer, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University
imageThe Capitol Power Plant, which uses fossil fuels.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

When an electric company runs a coal- or natural gas-fired power plant, the greenhouse gases it releases cause harm – but the company isn’t paying for the damage.

Instead, the costs show up in the billions of tax dollars spent each year to deal with the effects of...

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Whether up in smoke or down the toilet, missing presidential records are a serious concern

  • Written by Shannon Bow O'Brien, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts

We may never get to the bottom of whether Donald Trump flushed documents down a White House toilet. “Fake story,” says the former president. “100% accurate,” retorts a reporter.

But even without having to unclog plumbing in search of missing papers, national archivists have their work cut out trying to plug potential gaps in...

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In research studies and in real life, placebos have a powerful healing effect on the body and mind

  • Written by Elissa H. Patterson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Michigan
imageThe concept of placebos – which are sometimes called "sugar pills" – has been around since the 1800s.Wladimir Bulgar/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

Did you ever feel your own shoulders relax when you saw a friend receive a shoulder massage? For those of you who said “yes,” congratulations, your brain is using its...

Read more: In research studies and in real life, placebos have a powerful healing effect on the body and mind

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