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What's on the menu matters in health care for diverse patients

  • Written by Minakshi Raj, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageFamily members often take on the burden of preparing and delivering meals to their relatives.SoumenNath/E+ via Getty Images

Food is a powerful part of community and medicine. It has the potential to build connections, elicit nostalgia, spark joy, mark celebration and promote healing.

It also plays a role in determining whether the health care system...

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The water you're drinking may be thousands of years old – growing demand for deeper wells is tapping ancient reserves

  • Written by Marissa Grunes, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University
imageSome of North America’s groundwater is so old, it fell as rain before humans arrived here thousands of years ago.Maria Fuchs via Getty Images

Communities that rely on the Colorado River are facing a water crisis. Lake Mead, the river’s largest reservoir, has fallen to levels not seen since it was created by the construction of the...

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Ancient groundwater: Why the water you're drinking may be thousands of years old

  • Written by Marissa Grunes, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University
imageSome of North America’s groundwater is so old, it fell as rain before humans arrived here thousands of years ago.Maria Fuchs via Getty Images

Communities that rely on the Colorado River are facing a water crisis. Lake Mead, the river’s largest reservoir, has fallen to levels not seen since it was created by the construction of the...

Read more: Ancient groundwater: Why the water you're drinking may be thousands of years old

What is chaos? A complex systems scientist explains

  • Written by Mitchell Newberry, Assistant Professor of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
imageTiny changes, like a butterfly's wing flapping, can be amplified downstream in a chaotic system.Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images

Chaos evokes images of the dinosaurs running wild in Jurassic Park, or my friend’s toddler ravaging the living room.

In a chaotic world, you never know what to expect. Stuff is happening all the...

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My Ph.D. supervisor just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing a safer, cheaper and faster way to build molecules and make medicine

  • Written by David Nagib, Associate Professor of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
imageMany catalysts currently used to make many drugs are expensive and can produce toxic byproducts. Westend61 via Getty Images

The reason that ibuprofen treats headaches and ice cream tastes sweet is that their chemical components fit perfectly into certain receptors in your body. The better a drug or flavor molecule fits with its matching receptor,...

Read more: My Ph.D. supervisor just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing a safer, cheaper and...

First major Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court in over a decade could topple gun restrictions

  • Written by Eric Ruben, Assistant Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University
imageThis ruling could change the course of future firearm rights litigation.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The stakes in one of the most significant Second Amendment cases in U.S. history are high.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, expected by mid-2022, could declare a New York state restriction...

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Facebook's scandals and outage test users' frenemy relationship

  • Written by Elizabeth Stoycheff, Associate Professor of Communication, Wayne State University
imageHow do you feel about Facebook?Enes Evren/E+ via Getty Images

When Facebook was down for most of the day on Oct. 4, 2021, did you miss it, were you relieved or some of both? Social scientists have compiled an expansive body of research that shows how people have come to develop a love-hate relationship with the social media giant with nearly 3...

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Is social distancing unraveling the bonds that keep society together?

  • Written by Ilana Horwitz, Assistant Professor, Fields-Rayant Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life, Tulane University
imageHaving trusting relationships with people ahead of crises is key.Dobrila Vignjevic/Getty Images

With birthday celebrations being downsized, religious services moving back online and indoor playdates getting canceled, millions of Americans are having fewer social interactions because of persistently high case numbers and high rates of transmission.

I...

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Becoming a parent through surrogacy can have ethical challenges – but it is a positive experience for some

  • Written by Danielle Tumminio Hansen, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology & Spiritual Care, Emory University, Emory University
imageNurses holding babies born to Ukrainian surrogate mothers in capital city, Kyiv.Sergei Supinsky/ AFP via Getty Images

In her new book, actress Gabrielle Union became the latest celebrity to discuss her decision to become a parent via surrogacy. She joins the ranks of household names such as Neil Patrick Harris, Nicole Kidman, Kim Kardashian, all of...

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As American independence rang, a sweeping lockdown and mass inoculations fought off a smallpox outbreak

  • Written by Woody Holton, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
imageThe first reading of the Declaration of Independence in Boston, July 18, 1776.Tichnor Brothers Collection, Boston Public Library via Digital Commonwealth

Many Americans of the founding era denounced government tyranny, celebrated the Declaration of Independence – and favored lockdowns and mass inoculations to combat a viciously contagious...

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  1. 4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19
  2. Winners of 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics built mathematics of climate modeling, making predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting possible
  3. The 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine helps unravel mysteries about how the body senses temperature and pressure
  4. What's in the Pandora Papers? And why does South Dakota feature so heavily?
  5. The Pandora Papers: why does South Dakota feature so heavily?
  6. Why improvisation is the future in an AI-dominated world
  7. How Theranos' faulty blood tests got to market – and what that shows about gaps in FDA regulation
  8. Century-old racist US Supreme Court cases still rule over millions of Americans
  9. California's latest offshore oil spill could fuel pressure to end oil production statewide
  10. Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by more than half in official statistics
  11. The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history
  12. Why prescription drugs can work differently for different people
  13. Dangerous urban heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk
  14. In cities, dangerous heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk
  15. Puerto Rico has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build a clean energy grid – but FEMA plans to spend $9.4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure instead
  16. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context isn't a practice confined to those opposed to vaccines – it has been done for centuries
  17. How did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education?
  18. How education reforms can support teachers around the world instead of undermining them
  19. Five years after largest marine heatwave on record hit northern California coast, many warm–water species have stuck around
  20. Why some college sports are often out of reach for students from low-income families
  21. Tylenol could be risky for pregnant women – a new review of 25 years of research finds acetaminophen may contribute to ADHD and other developmental disorders in children
  22. Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US continues to affect the lives of disabled women
  23. David Chase might hate that 'The Many Saints of Newark' is premiering on HBO Max – but it's the wave of the future
  24. Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls more extreme and erratic
  25. To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real time
  26. Americans are in a mental health crisis – especially African Americans. Can churches help?
  27. A major new workplace safety initiative targets dangerous heat on the job, but what about chronic heat exposure?
  28. A major federal response to occupational extreme heat is here at last
  29. Britney Spears gets free of father's conservatorship – but many others remain shackled by the easily abused legal arrangement
  30. US Supreme Court gets set to address abortion, guns and religion
  31. Havana syndrome fits the pattern of psychosomatic illness – but that doesn't mean the symptoms aren't real
  32. As heat waves intensify, tens of thousands of US classrooms will be too hot for students to learn in
  33. 50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company
  34. Why charter schools are not as 'public' as they claim to be
  35. Who pays and who benefits from a massive expansion of solar power?
  36. What happened during the last government shutdown: 4 essential reads
  37. SNAP benefits are rising for millions of Americans, thanks to a long-overdue 'Thrifty Food Plan' update
  38. The music of proteins is made audible through a computer program that learns from Chopin
  39. Combining an HIV vaccine with immunotherapy may reduce the need for daily medication
  40. Facebook sabe que Instagram está dañando la mente de los adolescentes... y decide callar
  41. Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast
  42. Avoiding water bankruptcy in the drought-troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other
  43. An autonomous robot may have already killed people – here's how the weapons could be more destabilizing than nukes
  44. New NCAA endorsement rules could benefit women more than men
  45. Francis Scott Key: One of the anti-slavery movement's great villains
  46. Walt Disney's radical vision for a new kind of city
  47. Why Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg may be in hot water with the SEC
  48. The Supreme Court's immense power may pose a danger to its legitimacy
  49. R. Kelly was aided by a network of complicity – common in workplace abuse – that enabled crimes to go on for decades
  50. Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud