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A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove Is winter miserable for wildlife? Martin Luther King Jr., union man Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests? 3 ways Trump could disrupt health care for the better Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health Data breaches are inevitable – here's how to protect yourself anyway How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement

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Arts
A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic...

America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove

Five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the...

Is winter miserable for wildlife?

While the weather outside may indeed get frightful this winter, a parka, knit hat,...

Martin Luther King Jr., union man

If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to...

Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?

Compared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue...

Economy
3 ways Trump could disrupt health care for the better

Since his winning presidential campaign, Donald Trump has been repeatedly billed as a disrupter. From trade and foreign policy to immigration, Trump has consistently tried to...

Brexit: An ‘escape room’ with no escape

Brexit is beginning to look a lot like an “escape room” with no exit. An escape room is an increasingly...

Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts

What happens to the gifts you get? I’m not talking about the ones that you really...

Leaders always 'manufacture' crises, in politics and business

“This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of...

Why privatizing the VA or other essential health services is a bad idea

The Trump administration wants to shift billions of dollars from government-run...

Education
America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove

Five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for racially integrated schools. Yet as King put it in a 1968 speech,...

Gen Z entrepreneurs view higher education as vital to their startups

Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace...

Post-millennial entrepreneurs view higher education as vital to their startups

Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their...

How big bonuses for winning coaches became a tradition in college football

As college football bowl and playoff games unfold before a TV audience...

What public universities must do to regain public support

Universities have lost public support in recent years. In order to get...

Environment
A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic...

Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains

Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and...

A new way to curb nitrogen pollution: Regulate fertilizer producers, not just farmers

Nitrogen pollution is produced by a number of interlinked compounds, from ammonia...

To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented public lands

The Trump administration’s decision to keep many U.S. national parks...

Mapping the world's 'blue carbon' hot spots in coastal mangrove forests

Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere...

Health
Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health

In this new year, millions of Americans will make resolutions about healthier eating. In 2019, could U.S. government leaders further resolve to improve healthier eating as well,...

Why victims of Catholic priests need to hear more than confessions

Pope Francis has criticized U.S. Catholic bishops for how they handled the pervasive sexual abuse of...

The shutdown will harm the health and safety of Americans, even after it's long over

With the U.S. federal government shutdown now the longest in history, it’s important...

How to train the body's own cells to combat antibiotic resistance

Drug-resistant superbugs have threatened human health for decades. The...

Acute flaccid myelitis: What is the polio-like illness paralyzing US children?

I experienced déjà vu when I took care of a child with acute flaccid...

Technology
Is winter miserable for wildlife?

While the weather outside may indeed get frightful this winter, a parka, knit hat, wool socks, insulated boots and maybe a roaring fire make things bearable for people who live...

Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?

Compared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue woolly mammoths from extinction,...

Data breaches are inevitable – here's how to protect yourself anyway

It’s tempting to give up on data security altogether, with all the billions of...

In 'airports of the future,' everything new is old again

As massive new airports open across Asia and the Middle East, U.S. airports...

Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?

In any office, home or other shared space, there’s almost always someone...