The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. No other nuclear accident holds a candle to that level of public health impact.
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Scientists build on knowledge gained and published by others. How can we know which findings to trust?
Do environmental regulations help or hurt the economy? Ask the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates and you’ll get starkly different views.
Science and technology research has become so complicated and expensive that a gap has grown between the experiments scientists would like to do and what they have the means to do.
Remediation will never get radiation to zero in the area affected by the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Rather than safety, the conversation should focus on acceptable risk.
After 35 years, AIDS has changed the way the globe thinks about health, culture, and politics.
Despite the breakthroughs in HIV and AIDS research, without an effective vaccine, the world will not get to zero new infections and deaths.
Globally, the health community is moving to a point where there could be zero new HIV infections or deaths. But it has been a long road.
2016 will be a year of transitions in the Australia-US relationship. Against a backdrop of change are three important issues: the fight against Islamic State, China, and passage of the TPP.
Will Joe Hockey, a 19-year veteran of the Australian Parliament, be able to navigate an increasingly dysfunctional Washington as ambassador to the United States?
In the wake of the tragedy in Las Vegas, a criminologist reviews recent research to dispel common misconceptions about mass shootings.
Le marché a des côtés obscurs qui nous poussent à acheter des objets ou services mauvais pour nous. Mais n'est-ce pas au fond une des bases de l'économie de marché ? La réponse de deux prix Nobel.
While free markets have delivered benefits, they also prey on our weaknesses, tempting us to buy things that are bad for us, be it sweet candy or sour investments.
Palmarès des meilleurs restaurants du monde, classements en ligne des hôtels les plus appréciés… les consommateurs ont-ils toujours intérêt à utiliser ces éléments pour faire leurs choix. Pas sûr.
William Isdale speaks with Lawrence Gostin about the lessons we can learn from the global response to last year's Ebola outbreak and the future of global health.
There are plenty of alternatives to rule by the military strongman that is destroying Egypt. But most of the viable leaders are in exile or jail.
Despite progress in lifting people above poverty lines around the world, the picture is bleaker for people at the very bottom of the ladder. They have largely missed out on the gains of recent decades.
Even when a hotel or restaurant ranking accurately reflects quality, consumers may be better off not knowing.
The West has stood by and watched as democracy was stifled in Egypt. It will reap the whirlwind.
Economic research over the past 50 years shows efforts to regulate telecoms as utilities doesn’t work.
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Research Assistant at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
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Director, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor, History, Georgetown University
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Associate Director, Women's Center, Georgetown University
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Ph.D. Student in Psychology, Georgetown University
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Affiliate in the Center for Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Georgetown University
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Fellow, Georgetown University
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Assistant Professor of African Studies, Georgetown University
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Adjunct Lecturer of Philosophy, Georgetown University
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Research Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
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Senior Fellow, Government Affairs Institute, Georgetown University
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Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Business and Economics, Georgetown University
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Curator of the Apollo Collection, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and Affiliate Adjunct, Georgetown University
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
