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Are fears of saying ‘no’ overblown?

by Julian Givi, West Virginia University and Colleen P. Kirk, New York Institute of Technology Everyone has been there. You get invited to something that...

FDA’s plan to ban hair relaxer chemical called too little, too late

by Ronnie Cohen, KFF Health News In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde as a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively...

Telehealth makes timely abortions possible for many, research shows

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telehealth into the mainstream. Adobe Stock Photo by Leah Koenig, University of California, San Francisco and Ushma Upadhyay, University of California,...

Sitting all day is terrible for your health – now, a new study finds a relatively easy way to counteract it

by Keith Diaz, Columbia University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting,...

Education linked to better employment prospects upon release from prison

Education increases the yearly wages of employed ex-offenders by $564. The Washington Post via Getty Images by Ben Stickle, Middle Tennessee State University and Steven Sprick...

Recycling – a small act consumers can take to make a big difference

(NewsUSA) - November 15 is America Recycles Day – a day to celebrate recycling and encourage people to be mindful of what they consume...

We blurred the gender of soccer players and had people rate their performances − with surprising results

Would people still call a women’s soccer match boring if they didn’t know the players’ genders? isitsharp/E+ via Getty Images by Carlos Gómez González, University of...

We analyzed over 3.5 million written teacher comments about students and found racial bias

Teachers had more negative comments about Black boys than they did about other groups. aldomurillo/E+ via Getty Images by Angus Kittelman, University of Missouri-Columbia; David Markowitz,...

I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors

by Brian Y. An, Georgia Institute of Technology In the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been...

New class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help reduce single-use plastic waste

by Katherine Harry, Colorado State University and Emma Rettner, Colorado State University Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every...

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