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You're not imagining it – 3 ways COVID-19 has been extra hard on American parents

  • Written by Steven Greene, Professor of Political Science, North Carolina State University
imageFor parents during the pandemic, juggling hasn't been an option: It's both work and family, all the time.damircudic/E+ via Getty Images

For over a year, Americans have been struggling with the challenges imposed on them by the global coronavirus pandemic. While all Americans have struggled, the pandemic has imposed three distinctive sets of burdens...

Read more: You're not imagining it – 3 ways COVID-19 has been extra hard on American parents

Fatal police violence may be linked to preterm births in neighborhoods nearby

  • Written by Dana Goin, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Francisco
imageA demonstration in New York City in June 2020 denounces systemic racism and the police killings of African Americans. Scott Heins via Getty Images

Building on generations of work by activists and organizers, there is currently a national reckoning with the impacts of police violence on Black communities underway in the United States. It’s...

Read more: Fatal police violence may be linked to preterm births in neighborhoods nearby

America goes back to school – 5 essential reads on parenting in the pandemic

  • Written by Jamaal Abdul-Alim, Education Editor, The Conversation
imageParents may find it challenging to get their children comfortable going back out into the world.Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Beyond safety and survival, a paramount question throughout the pandemic has been: When will things get “back to normal”? But as the nation gradually gets vaccinated against COVID-19 and...

Read more: America goes back to school – 5 essential reads on parenting in the pandemic

I’m a pediatrician who cares for transgender kids – here’s what you need to know about social support, puberty blockers and other medical options that improve lives of transgender youth

  • Written by Mandy Coles, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and co-director of the Child and Adolescent Trans/Gender Center for Health, Boston University
imageTransgender medicine uses a multidisciplinary approach to help trans youth live happier lives. Sudowoodo/iStock via Getty Images Plus

When Charlie, a 10-year-old boy, came in for his first visit, he didn’t look at me or my colleague. Angry and crying, he insisted to us that he was cisgender – that he was a boy and had been born male.

A...

Read more: I’m a pediatrician who cares for transgender kids – here’s what you need to know about social...

6 ways recent college graduates can enhance their online job search

  • Written by Jason Eckert, Executive Director of Career Services, University of Dayton
imageVery few job applications get a positive response.Maskot/Getty Images

When recent or soon-to-be college graduates begin to seek employment, many inevitably turn to job-search and networking platforms on the internet.

The platforms include some that are college-based – such as Handshake, SymplicityGradLeaders and 12twenty – as well as...

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80% of fatal e-scooter crashes involve cars – new study reveals where and why most collisions occur

  • Written by Christopher R. Cherry, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
imageElectric scooters have become a popular way to get around since their introduction to U.S. cities about three years ago. But fatalities are mounting. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

About 30 people in the United States have been killed riding electric scooters since 2018. Most – 80% – were hit by drivers of cars.

Publicly...

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As extreme fires transform Alaska's boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns

  • Written by Jill Johnstone, Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Saskatchewan
imageA helicopter drops water on a forest fire in Alaska.Michael Risinger/U.S. Army National Guard, CC BY

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been burning more frequently and severely in these...

Read more: As extreme fires transform Alaska's boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and...

Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?

  • Written by Chris Robinson, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida
imageCOVID-19 survivors face not only physical symptoms. A large study recently showed that their mental health is affected, too. FG Trade/Getty Images

One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly referred to as COVID-19 long-haulers, suffered from neurologic or psychiatric disability six months after infection, a recent landmark study of...

Read more: Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?

French row over mosque isn't simply about state financing – it runs deep into Islamophobia and French secularism

  • Written by Carol Ferrara, Assistant Professor, Emerson College
imageThe storm over the construction of the grand mosque in Strasbourg has been long brewing.Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images

Among the anti-Muslim slogans discovered sprayed across an Islamic community center in western France on the morning of April 11, 2021, was a reference to a mosque that hasn’t even finished being built yet.

“EELV...

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How Baptists hold differing views on the resurrection of Christ and why this matters

  • Written by Jason Oliver Evans, Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, University of Virginia
imageResurrection of Christ depicted in 14th-century fresco in Chora Church, Istanbul, Turkey.LP7/Collections E+ via Getty Images

Early on April 4 morning, the following message appeared on the Twitter account of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the...

Read more: How Baptists hold differing views on the resurrection of Christ and why this matters

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  2. Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets
  3. Why Wall Street investors' trading California water futures is nothing to fear – and unlikely to work anyway
  4. Nearly 60 million Americans don't drink their tap water, research suggests – here's why that's a public health problem
  5. Infrastructure? Or jobs? Controversy over name of Biden proposal highlights long tradition in politics
  6. The rise of female UFC fighters obscures profound exploitation, inequality
  7. How to get COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries – and still keep patent benefits for drugmakers
  8. Colombia gives nearly 1 million Venezuelan migrants legal status and right to work
  9. COVID-19 public health messages have been all over the place – but researchers know how to do better
  10. Trump, defying custom, hasn't given the National Archives records of his speeches at political rallies
  11. Compassionate courage moves beyond 'cancel culture' to challenge systemic racism – but it's hard work
  12. 'Deprogramming' QAnon followers ignores free will and why they adopted the beliefs in the first place
  13. Is magic immoral? It played a role in the development of early Christianity
  14. Knoxville school shooting serves as stark reminder of a familiar – but preventable – threat
  15. Plants thrive in a complex world by communicating, sharing resources and transforming their environments
  16. US postpones Afghanistan troop withdrawal in hopes of sustaining peace process: 5 essential reads
  17. The EU wants a carbon tax on imports – but would it be the climate solution officials expect?
  18. Johnson Johnson vaccine suspension – a doctor explains what this means for you
  19. 143,518 US public library workers are keeping their communities informed, connected and engaged – but their jobs may be at risk
  20. How race-related stress could be driving educators of color away from the job
  21. One change that could help nursing homes recover from COVID-19 fears and become safer places for aging parents
  22. Why student athletes need a new playbook to stay safe in the COVID-19 era
  23. How 'complementarianism' – the belief that God assigned specific gender roles – became part of evangelical doctrine
  24. Long live the monarchy! British royals tend to survive a full three decades longer than their subjects
  25. How the Supreme Court found its faith and put 'religious liberty' on a winning streak
  26. We're creating 'humanized pigs' in our ultraclean lab to study human illnesses and treatments
  27. Polen puede aumentar el riesgo de contraer COVID-19, ya sea que tengas alergias o no, según estudio
  28. A nutrition report card for Americans: Dark clouds, silver linings
  29. Astrocyte cells in the fruit fly brain are an on-off switch that controls when neurons can change and grow
  30. Derek Chauvin trial: 3 questions America needs to ask about seeking racial justice in a court of law
  31. Northern Ireland, born of strife 100 years ago, again erupts in political violence
  32. How many states and provinces are in the world?
  33. MLB's decision to drop Atlanta highlights the economic power companies can wield over lawmakers – when they choose to
  34. What inspired digital nomads to flee America's big cities may spur legions of remote workers to do the same
  35. Write ill of the dead? Obits rarely cross that taboo as they look for the positive in people's lives
  36. Proof of new physics from the muon's magnetic moment? Maybe not, according to a new theoretical calculation
  37. Pandemic recovery will take more than soaring growth – to fuel a more equitable economy, countries need to measure the well-being of people, too
  38. At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising clues
  39. 3 ways music educators can help students with autism develop their emotions
  40. Planning the best route with multiple destinations is hard even for supercomputers – a new approach breaks a barrier that's stood for nearly half a century
  41. What is mRNA? The messenger molecule that's been in every living cell for billions of years is the key ingredient in some COVID-19 vaccines
  42. 'Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration' – recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist
  43. Americans adopted fewer pets from shelters in 2020 as the supply of rescue animals fell
  44. Lil Nas X's dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization
  45. Anxious about going out into the world? You're not alone, but there's help
  46. Water being pumped into Tampa Bay could cause a massive algae bloom, putting fragile manatee and fish habitats at risk
  47. Faith in numbers: Trump held steady among believers at the ballot – it was the nonreligious vote he lost in 2020
  48. India prepares for Kumbh Mela, world's largest religious gathering, amid COVID-19 fears
  49. How worried should you be about coronavirus variants? A virologist explains his concerns
  50. Why you should expect more Suez-like supply chain disruptions and shortages at your local grocery store