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Lighter pavement really does cool cities when it’s done right

  • Written by Hessam AzariJafari, Postdoctoral Associate in Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
imageA road crew paints a street in Los Angeles with coating designed to reduce heat.John McCoy/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images

When heat waves hit, people start looking for anything that might lower the temperature. One solution is right beneath our feet: pavement.

Think about how hot the soles of your shoes can get when...

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Academic tenure: What it is and why it matters

  • Written by George Justice, Professor of English, Arizona State University
imageIn the 2018-2019 academic school year, 45.1% of professors at U.S. colleges and universities overall had tenure.Tom Werner/DigitalVision

How would you like a job that was guaranteed and allowed you to do your work as you see fit and speak your mind with no repercussions? Most people would, and that’s the idea behind academic tenure. In the...

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Conservative hard-liner elected as Iran's next president – what that means for the West and the nuclear deal

  • Written by Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
imageEbrahim Raisi, seen here during a 2017 rally, is expected to win Iran's presidential election.AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi

Iran’s conservative rulers’ effort to orchestrate the outcome of the June 18 presidential election triggered a voter boycott – but the result may still bode well for ongoing negotiations over the lapsed 2015...

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Too few women get to invent – that's a problem for women's health

  • Written by Rem Koning, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
imageInequality has cost women the benefits of thousands of "lost" medical inventions.Ron Levine/Stone via Getty Images

MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a scientist and inventor, including growing a human ear on a mouse. She now spends her days unpacking the biological mechanisms underlying endometriosis, a...

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Young people are eager to have sex, but will post-pandemic hookups bring happiness or despair?

  • Written by Nicole K. McNichols, Associate Teaching Professor in Psychology, University of Washington
imageAnecdotal evidence suggests that young adults are more than eager for sex after long months of socially isolating. filadendren/Getty Images

As an associate teaching professor who teaches a very large human sexuality class at the University of Washington, I benefit from frequent access to young people’s inner thoughts and desires surrounding...

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A mix-and-match approach to COVID-19 vaccines could provide logistical and immunological benefits

  • Written by Maureen Ferran, Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageOne of this and one of that might be a good strategy to coronavirus vaccination.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

While it’s now pretty easy to get a COVID-19 shot in most places in the U.S., the vaccine rollout in other parts of the world has been slow or inconsistent due to shortages, uneven access and concerns about safety.

Researcher...

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Being a pop star once meant baring skin – now, for artists like Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato, it's all about emotional stripping

  • Written by Kristin J. Lieb, Associate Professor, Emerson College
imageDemi Lovato and other pop stars are increasingly opening up about their trauma.Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Photo

In Billie Eilish’s 2019 video for “Bury A Friend,” the then-17-year-old singer blurs the lines between being in a nightmare and being committed to a psychiatric hospital.

“I want to end me,” she repeats six times...

Read more: Being a pop star once meant baring skin – now, for artists like Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato,...

Millions are rejecting one of humanity's best weapons for saving lives: Vaccines

  • Written by S. Jay Olshansky, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago
imageVaccination has saved millions of lives throughout the course of history.Phynart Studio/E+ from Getty Images

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by employees at a Houston hospital who did not want to be vaccinated for COVID-19, claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe. In the June 12, 2021 ruling, U.S. district Judge Lynn Hughes...

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Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million Americans who don't have access to a credit union or community bank

  • Written by Terri Friedline, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
imageThe Postal Service has over 30,000 retail locations in the U.S, including off the Appalachian Trail in Caratunk, Me.AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

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About a quarter of census tracts with a post office don’t have a community bank or credit union branch, suggesting postal...

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What's a 100-year flood? A hydrologist explains

  • Written by Robert Mace, Executive Director of the Meadows Center for Water and Environment, Texas State University
imageA '100-year flood' doesn't mean you'll be flood-free for the next 99 years.Win McNamee/Getty Images

A 100-year flood, like a 100-year storm, is one so severe it has only a 1% chance of hitting in any given year.

Unfortunately, many people believe that if they experienced a 100-year flood this year, they will not see another one like it for 99 years.

I...

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