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How bans on mask mandates affect students with disabilities – 4 questions answered

  • Written by Claire Raj, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
imageStudents with certain disabilities are at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19.FG Trade/E+ Collection via Getty Images

As if back-to-school season weren’t stressful enough already amid a U.S. surge in the delta variant, bitter wrangling over school mask mandates has added to the fear and confusion for many students and parents.

Nine...

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Biden's proposed tenfold increase in solar power would remake the US electricity system

  • Written by Joshua D. Rhodes, Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin
imageSolar panels on the roof of the Casa Dominguez low-income housing development in East Rancho Dominguez, Calif.Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. On Sept. 8, 2021, the White House released a report produced by the U.S....

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California recall: There's a method to what looks like madness

  • Written by Raphael J. Sonenshein, Executive Director, Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs, California State University, Los Angeles
imageCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (standing) talks with volunteers who are phone-banking against the recall on Aug. 13, 2021, in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The California governor recall election has been yet another opportunity to portray California as a strange place with very odd practices.

And the recall truly has bizarre quirks...

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SpaceX Inspiration4 mission will send 4 people with minimal training into orbit – and bring space tourism closer to reality

  • Written by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
imageFour people – none of them trained astronauts – are scheduled to launch into orbit aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule on Sept. 15, 2021.NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC

On Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists are set to lift off aboard a SpaceX rocket. Organized and funded by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the Inspiration4 mission tou...

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Student loan debt is crushing Americans – 4 essential reads

  • Written by Jamaal Abdul-Alim, Education Editor, The Conversation
imageCurrently, the total outstanding federal student loan debt is $1.7 trillion. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

US$1.7 trillion. That’s how much college students and graduates owed in federal student loan debt as of July 2021.

The rising amount of student loan debt can pose serious challenges for individual borrowers. For that...

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SpaceX Inspiration4 mission sent 4 people with minimal training into orbit – and brought space tourism closer to reality

  • Written by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
imageFour people – none of them trained astronauts – launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule on Sept. 15, 2021.NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Just after 8 p.m. EST on Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists lifted off aboard a SpaceX rocket. Organized and funded by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the Inspiration4 mission touts...

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Firebrands: How to protect your home from wildfires' windblown flaming 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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18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic – a retrospective in 7 charts

  • Written by Katelyn Jetelina, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
imageSeptember 11, 2021 marks the 18 month anniversary of the WHO declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemicsummerphotos/Stock via Getty Images Plus

A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, it’s an understatement to say that Americans are exhausted.

I’m an epidemiologist and...

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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...

Read more: Firebrands and protecting homes from wildfires: What everyone needs to know about flaming...

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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  13. Data science education lacks a much-needed focus on ethics
  14. How threats of hellfire helped keep 'immodest' women in their place – from the ancient world to 'My Unorthodox Life'
  15. Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund? What does the Taliban's choice of interim prime minister mean for Afghanistan?
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  19. Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies
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  21. Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot raises serious concerns – but probably not the ones you think
  22. Women face motherhood penalty in STEM careers long before they actually become mothers
  23. Netflix’s 'My Unorthodox Life' spurred ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to talk publicly about their lives
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  28. The next attack on the Affordable Care Act may cost you free preventive health care
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