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US support for waiving COVID-19 vaccine patent rights puts pressure on drugmakers – but what would a waiver actually look like?

  • Written by Dalindyebo Shabalala, Associate Professor, University of Dayton
imageA COVID-19 surge has pushed hospitals in India beyond their capacity. A stadium in New Delhi was being used as a makeshift ward on May 2, 2021.Getty Images

The U.S. and Europe are debating waiving patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines, a move that could allow more companies to produce the vaccine around the world. But it’s not as simple as it...

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Women-dominated child and home care work is critical infrastructure that has long been devalued

  • Written by Mignon Duffy, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageMany mothers struggled without child care during the pandemic.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

A fiery debate has erupted over the definition of “infrastructure.”

Does it mean roads, broadband and other physical structures included in the traditional meaning of infrastructure? Or should it have a broader definition that includes other important...

Read more: Women-dominated child and home care work is critical infrastructure that has long been devalued

How much sleep do you really need?

  • Written by Dana McMakin, Associate Professor of Psychology, Florida International University
imageThe need for shut-eye is universal.Justin Lewis/Stone 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 do I need to sleep for a long time at night? – Sly M., 6, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Just like eating, drinking or...

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States pick judges very differently from US Supreme Court appointments

  • Written by Joshua Holzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
imagePolitical pressure is focusing on the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court.Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images

The future of the U.S. Supreme Court is politically fraught.

The court’s partisan balance has long been a hot-button issue, and both Democrats and Republicans can correctly claim that the other party bears at least some blame for the politiciza...

Read more: States pick judges very differently from US Supreme Court appointments

Haitians protest their president in English as well as Creole, indicting US for its role in country's political crisis

  • Written by Tamanisha John, Ph.D. Candidate of International Relations, Florida International University
imageProtest signs on the ground before a march on March 28, 2021, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to denounce President Jovenel Moïse's efforts to stay in office past his term.Valerie Baeriswyl/AFP via Getty Images

Haitian protesters on the nation’s streets have a laundry list of reasons they believe President Jovenel Moïse should resign.

They...

Read more: Haitians protest their president in English as well as Creole, indicting US for its role in...

DNA 'Lite-Brite' is a promising way to archive data for decades or longer

  • Written by Will Hughes, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Boise State University
imageA simple two-dimensional grid can convey a lot of information – whether making pictures with Lite-Brite or storing data in DNA.Justin Day/Flickr, CC BY-SA

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

The big idea

We and our colleagues have developed a way to store data using pegs and pegboards made out of DNA and...

Read more: DNA 'Lite-Brite' is a promising way to archive data for decades or longer

Why business school efforts to recruit more diverse faculties are failing

  • Written by Sonya A. Grier, Professor of Marketing, American University Kogod School of Business
imageBlack and Hispanic business school professors are few in number.nortonrsx/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Despite the increasing diversity among America’s college students, business school professors remain overwhelmingly white.

In U.S. business schools, Black and Hispanic individuals make up 23.2% of students, yet only 6.7% of the faculty.

As a re...

Read more: Why business school efforts to recruit more diverse faculties are failing

From Rodney King to George Floyd, how video evidence can be differently interpreted in courts

  • Written by Sandra Ristovska, Assistant Professor in Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageVideo evidence at trial played a crucial part in the conviction of a police officer for the 2020 murder of George Floyd.AP Photo/Ben Gray

News media coverage of Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd highlighted the role of video as a “star witness.” Jurors in this trial saw footage from cellphones, police body...

Read more: From Rodney King to George Floyd, how video evidence can be differently interpreted in courts

Water wells are at risk of going dry in the US and worldwide

  • Written by Debra Perrone, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
imageAn orchard near Kettleman City in California's San Joaquin Valley on April 2, 2021.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

As the drought outlook for the Western U.S. becomes increasingly bleak, attention is turning once again to groundwater – literally, water stored in the ground. It is Earth’s most widespread and reliable source of...

Read more: Water wells are at risk of going dry in the US and worldwide

A metropolis arose in medieval Cambodia – new research shows how many people lived in the Angkor Empire over time

  • Written by Sarah Klassen, Postdoctoral Researcher of Archaeological Sciences, Leiden University
imageA visualization of daily life around Angkor Wat in the late 12th century. Tom Chandler, Mike Yeates, Chandara Ung and Brent McKee, Monash University, 2021, CC BY-NC-ND

How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period,...

Read more: A metropolis arose in medieval Cambodia – new research shows how many people lived in the Angkor...

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  4. Space tourism is here – 20 years after the first stellar tourist, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to send civilians to space
  5. Popping toys, the latest fidget craze, might reduce stress for adults and children alike
  6. Warming is clearly visible in new US 'climate normal' datasets
  7. Faces of those America is leaving behind in Afghanistan
  8. Police academies dedicate 3.21% of training hours to ethics and other public service topics – new research
  9. Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it's more widespread than people realize
  10. Nocturnal dinosaurs: Night vision and superb hearing in a small theropod suggest it was a moonlight predator
  11. Reducing methane is crucial for protecting climate and health, and it can pay for itself – so why aren't more companies doing it?
  12. What the US can learn from Africa about slavery reparations
  13. Anti-transgender bills are latest version of conservatives' longtime strategy to rally their base
  14. Kids with a desk and a quiet place to study do better in school, data shows
  15. Why people with disabilities are at greater risk of going hungry – especially during a pandemic
  16. Why Facebook created its own ‘supreme court’ for judging content – 6 questions answered
  17. What causes miscarriages? An expert explains why women shouldn't blame themselves
  18. Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of thousands of years ago in Stone Age Africa
  19. Taste alone won't persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers
  20. Where coronavirus variants emerge, surges follow – new research suggests how genomic surveillance can be an early warning system
  21. MDMA may help treat PTSD – but beware of claims that Ecstasy is a magic bullet
  22. How 'socialism' stopped being a dirty word for some voters – and started winning elections across America
  23. Georgia voter suppression efforts may not change election results much
  24. Bishops' move to press Biden not to take Communion reflects power struggle in split Catholic Church
  25. Are graphene-coated face masks a COVID-19 miracle – or another health risk?
  26. Indians are forced to change rituals for their dead as COVID-19 rages through cities and villages
  27. Two classes of trans kids are emerging – those who have access to puberty blockers, and those who don't
  28. How cleaning up coolants can cool the climate – why HFCs are getting phased out from refrigerators and air conditioners
  29. Biden's infrastructure plan targets lead pipes that threaten public health across the US
  30. Here's why students don't revise what they write – and why they should
  31. How qualified immunity protects police officers accused of wrongdoing
  32. What are the blood clots associated with the Johnson Johnson COVID-19 vaccine? 4 questions answered
  33. Why Trump is more likely to win in the GOP than to take his followers to a new third party
  34. Installing solar panels over California's canals could yield water, land, air and climate payoffs
  35. Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video
  36. Breakfast After the Bell programs reduce school absenteeism
  37. Massive flare seen on the closest star to the solar system: What it means for chances of alien neighbors
  38. What happened to Confederate money after the Civil War?
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