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Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies

  • Written by Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
imageInterstate 980 cuts off West Oakland, Calif., at top, from other Oakland neighborhoods.Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

The US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill now moving through Congress will bring money to cities for much-needed investments in roads, bridges, public transit networks, water infrastructure, electric...

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Why are planets round?

  • Written by James Webb, Professor and Director, Stocker AstroScience Center for Physics; Stocker AstroScience Center, Florida International University
imageThe Earth is round.Alistair Berg/DigitalVision 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 are planets round? – Daniel B., La Crosse, Wisconsin

The ancient Greeks proved over 2,000 years ago that the Earth was...

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Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot raises serious concerns – but probably not the ones you think

  • Written by Andrew Maynard, Associate Dean, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University

Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store for you, but presumably it would handle any number of tasks involving manual labor.

Predictably, social media filled with references to a string of dystopian sci-fi movies about robots where...

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Women face motherhood penalty in STEM careers long before they actually become mothers

  • Written by Sarah Thebaud, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
imageWomen in Ph.D STEM programs say they were told they had to choose between family and career. janiecbros/E+ via Getty Images

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

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Unfounded assumptions about how motherhood affects worker productivity can harm women’s careers in science, technology, engineering and math...

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Netflix’s 'My Unorthodox Life' spurred ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to talk publicly about their lives

  • Written by Jessica Roda, Assistant Professor Jewish Civilization (Anthropologist/Ethnomusicologist), Georgetown University
imageUltra-Orthodox Jewish women have started telling their own stories via social media, challenging television's sometimes one-sided depictions of their lives.rfranca/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

Over the past four years, Netflix has released several shows related to people leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. These shows include...

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When does life begin? There’s more than one religious view

  • Written by Rachel Mikva, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Chicago Theological Seminary
imagePeople protest in Texas after the governor signed a bill to outlaw abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. Sergio Flores/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The most restrictive abortion law in the country went into effect on Sept. 1, 2021, after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to deny an emergency appeal. In Texas, abortions are now illegal...

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Medicine is an imperfect science – but you can still trust its process

  • Written by Venktesh Ramnath, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego
imageIntensive care physicians are yet again facing ICU bed and staff shortages as severe COVID-19 cases rise.gorodenkoff/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. You can find all of the stories here.

As an intensive care...

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What young kids say worked -- and didn't work -- for them during virtual learning

  • Written by Mari Altshuler, Ph.D. Candidate, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University
imageSome children liked being able to move from room to room, while others felt more confined to their desks at home. Mayur Kakade/Moment Collection via Getty Images

On Aug. 30, 2021, my kid joined millions of children in walking through school doors as he began first grade.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, school buildings are almost universally open....

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The women who appear in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' are finally getting their due, 700 years later

  • Written by Laura Ingallinella, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies and English, Wellesley College
imageIn a 14th-century illustration, Dante reaches out to Sapia, whose eyes have been sewn shut.Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, CC BY-NC

When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries.

The...

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The next attack on the Affordable Care Act may cost you free preventive health care

  • Written by Paul Shafer, Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University
imageA provision of the Affordable Care Act makes it easier for patients to receive preventive care.Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Digital Vision via Getty Images

Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in place following its third major legal challenge in June 2021. This decision left widely supported...

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  3. 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
  4. How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11
  5. Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world – and also to colonialism
  6. Slavery was the ultimate labor distortion – empowering workers today would be a form of reparations
  7. Al-Qaida, Islamic State group struggle for recruits
  8. Will having so many disasters happening at the same time affect donations? We asked an expert
  9. 5 reasons video games should be more widely used in school
  10. Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression, as well as deeper psychological wounds
  11. A subway flood expert explains what needs to be done to stop underground station deluges
  12. Hurricane Ida: 2 reasons for its record-shattering rainfall in NYC and the Northeast long after the winds weakened
  13. 'Get out now' – inside the White House on 9/11, according to the staffers who were there
  14. How Arctic warming can trigger extreme cold waves like the Texas freeze – a new study makes the connection
  15. Bitcoin will soon be 'legal tender' in El Salvador – here's what that means
  16. Bitcoin is now 'legal tender' in El Salvador – here's what that means
  17. Researchers trained mice to control seemingly random bursts of dopamine in their brains, challenging theories of reward and learning
  18. 'Work with hope' – a poet and classics scholar on facing the flood of bad news
  19. An entire generation of Americans has no idea how easy air travel used to be
  20. 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
  21. Education debates are rife with references to war – but have they gone too far?
  22. At my hospital, over 95% of COVID-19 patients share one thing in common: They’re unvaccinated
  23. When human life begins is a question of politics – not biology
  24. How the Purdue opioid settlement could help the public understand the roots of the drug crisis
  25. 20 years of 'forever' wars have left a toll on US veterans returning to the question: 'Did you kill?'
  26. Feds are increasing use of facial recognition systems – despite calls for a moratorium
  27. Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants to puncture tough skin
  28. What's on the agenda when Ukraine president meets Biden?
  29. What are the Jewish High Holy Days? A look at Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and a month of celebrating renewal and moral responsibility
  30. State efforts to ban mask mandates in schools mirror resistance to integration
  31. Calculating the costs of the Afghanistan War in lives, dollars and years
  32. Hurricane Ida turned into a monster thanks to a giant warm patch in the Gulf of Mexico – here’s what happened
  33. Even with the eviction moratorium, landlords continued to find ways to kick renters out
  34. Afghanistan has vast mineral wealth but faces steep challenges to tap it
  35. Microeconomics explains why people can never have enough of what they want and how that influences policies
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  38. Bilingual people with language loss due to stroke can pose a treatment challenge – computational modeling may help clinicians treat them
  39. Lessons about 9/11 often provoke harassment of Muslim students
  40. New gene therapies may soon treat dozens of rare diseases, but million-dollar price tags will put them out of reach for many
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  44. Why some Muslim women feel empowered wearing hijab, a headscarf
  45. Islam's deep traditions of art and science have had a global influence
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