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Firebrands and protecting homes from wildfires: What everyone needs to know about flaming windblown debris

  • Written by David Blunck, Associate Professor School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University
imageA photographer stands in a rain of flaming embers during a fire in California in 2019.Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

As firefighters tried to protect homes near Lake Tahoe from one of California’s largest fires on record, they battled, windblown embers that kept sparking new small fires, some well away from the fire line.

Those embers, also...

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Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections, not vaccines, are the main driver of new coronavirus variants

  • Written by Vaughn Cooper, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh

The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life. But how mutations, random chance and natural selection produce variants is a complicated process, and there has been a lot of confusion about how and why new variants emerge.

Until recently, the most famous example of rapid evolution was the...

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For engineers, asking for help at work is influenced by gender

  • Written by Cristina Poleacovschi, Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
imageFemale engineers were more likely to ask for help from their female than male colleagues.alvarez/E+ via Getty Images

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

The big idea

In a study published in the Journal of Management in Engineering, we analyzed whether knowledge accessibility – defined as the time and effort that...

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Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

  • Written by Hanif Sufizada, Education and Outreach Program Coordinator, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageAfghanistan relies on informal money changers more than banks. AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini

Now that the Taliban have reportedly taken full control of Afghanistan and begun forming a government, a looming challenge awaits: How will they keep their country and economy afloat financially?

For the past 20 years, the U.S. government and other countries hav...

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How social media – aided by bots – amplifies Islamophobia online

  • Written by Saif Shahin, Assistant Professor in School of Communication and Faculty Affiliate with Antiracist Research and Policy Center, American University
imageIslamophobia has changed in the 20 years since Sept. 11. Now, much of it plays out on social media.Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

In August 2021, a Facebook ad campaign criticizing Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the United States’ first Muslim congresswomen, came under intense scrutiny. Critics charged that the ads linked the...

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Buying groceries isn't a problem just for the poor – middle-class millennials like me with student debt have trouble too

  • Written by Cassandra M. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Foods, Texas State University
imageWhen people can't afford what they want to eat, they have to make a lot of calculations at the supermarket.oonal/E+ via Getty Images

When I teach undergraduate and graduate students about food insecurity, I sometimes mention that my perspective is based not only on professional expertise but also on my personal experience.

Food insecurity might...

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How to design a public play space where kids practice reading and STEM skills

  • Written by Brenna Hassinger-Das, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Pace University
imageA spinning wall puzzle helps kids develop spatial skills and understand how different objects relate to one another.Sahar Coston-Hardy Photography, CC BY-NC-ND

A park bench can be so much more than just a place to sit and wait. Perhaps it has a puzzle built into it, or weights that allow children to make measurements.

As researcherswho study the...

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On 50th anniversary of Attica uprising, 4 essential reads on prisoners' rights today

  • Written by Matt Williams, Breaking News Editor
imageSome of the demands by prisoners in 1971's Attica rebellion still resonate today.

On Sept. 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 incarcerated men at Attica Correctional Facility in New York state took control of the facility, prompting a multiday standoff with authorities that ended in a massacre.

The incident resulted in the deaths of 43 people, many of them...

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¿Por qué se fortaleció la tormenta Ida en el Noreste tan rápido después de haberse debilitado?

  • Written by Russ Schumacher, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
imageEl vecindario de Manayunk en Philadelphia fue inundado por los restos del huracán Ida.AP Images/Matt Rourke

Las lluvias históricas ocasionadas por el huracán Ida desbordaron ciudades en el Noreste del país la semana pasada, golpeando algunas con más de 7,62 centímetros de lluvia por hora. El agua...

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Government and charitable actions likely kept millions of Americans out of food insecurity during the pandemic

  • Written by Craig Gundersen, Professor of Economics, Baylor University
imageFamilies found themselves in need of food assistance during the pandemic.Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto

Despite the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vulnerable in the United States, the percentage of Americans in food-insecure households held steady in 2020 at 10.5%, figures released on Sept. 8, 2021, show.

Although unchanged from 2019, the...

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  3. What schools teach about 9/11 and the war on terror
  4. The science of product placements – and why some work better than others
  5. Data science education lacks a much-needed focus on ethics
  6. How threats of hellfire helped keep 'immodest' women in their place – from the ancient world to 'My Unorthodox Life'
  7. Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund? What does the Taliban's choice of interim prime minister mean for Afghanistan?
  8. Wildfire burn scars can intensify and even create thunderstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding – here's how it works
  9. How someone becomes a torturer
  10. Wildfire burn scars can intensify and even trigger thunderstorms, leading to catastrophic flooding – here's how
  11. Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies
  12. Why are planets round?
  13. Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot raises serious concerns – but probably not the ones you think
  14. Women face motherhood penalty in STEM careers long before they actually become mothers
  15. Netflix’s 'My Unorthodox Life' spurred ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to talk publicly about their lives
  16. When does life begin? There’s more than one religious view
  17. Medicine is an imperfect science – but you can still trust its process
  18. What young kids say worked -- and didn't work -- for them during virtual learning
  19. The women who appear in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' are finally getting their due, 700 years later
  20. The next attack on the Affordable Care Act may cost you free preventive health care
  21. Pandemic hardship is about to get a lot worse for millions of out-of-work Americans
  22. Can burying power lines protect storm-wracked electric grids? Not always
  23. At the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ancient Greece and Rome can tell us a lot about the links between collective trauma and going to war
  24. How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11
  25. Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world – and also to colonialism
  26. Slavery was the ultimate labor distortion – empowering workers today would be a form of reparations
  27. Al-Qaida, Islamic State group struggle for recruits
  28. Will having so many disasters happening at the same time affect donations? We asked an expert
  29. 5 reasons video games should be more widely used in school
  30. Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression, as well as deeper psychological wounds
  31. A subway flood expert explains what needs to be done to stop underground station deluges
  32. Hurricane Ida: 2 reasons for its record-shattering rainfall in NYC and the Northeast long after the winds weakened
  33. 'Get out now' – inside the White House on 9/11, according to the staffers who were there
  34. How Arctic warming can trigger extreme cold waves like the Texas freeze – a new study makes the connection
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  40. As Texas ban on abortion goes into effect, a religion scholar explains that pre-modern Christian attitudes on marriage and reproductive rights were quite different
  41. Education debates are rife with references to war – but have they gone too far?
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  44. How the Purdue opioid settlement could help the public understand the roots of the drug crisis
  45. 20 years of 'forever' wars have left a toll on US veterans returning to the question: 'Did you kill?'
  46. Feds are increasing use of facial recognition systems – despite calls for a moratorium
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