Over the course of two years, a sociologist studied a group of affluent, white kids to see how they made sense of sensitive racial issues like privilege, unequal opportunity and police violence.
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How do the narrow ribbons of sand that line the Atlantic and Gulf coasts withstand the force of hurricanes? The answer lies in their shape-shifting abilities.
Five years after the first chemical weapons attacks in Syria that killed more than 1,400 people, a team at MSU may have solved the problem of getting nerve agent antidotes inside the brain.
Teniendo en cuenta la edad en 'años de perro', ¿podría su mascota comprar alcohol legalmente? Los veterinarios prefieren hablar de etapas vitales que medir la edad en años naturales.
Based on his age in 'dog years,' could your animal pal legally buy alcohol? Or would he be cashing in on his senior discount? Veterinarians are more interested in life stage than a particular number.
An AC/DC-loving biologist tests the band's 1980 assertion that "rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution." Turns out it can be – and the negative effects of noise can ripple through an ecosystem.
Everybody does it, but why? Scientists aren't really sure if exhaustion, stress or some other social factor is at the root of yawning – and how it can be so contagious.
Anti-immigrant policies ignore that American ideals like liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness can be traced back to the indigenous pioneers who once moved freely across North America.
Some countries clearly prefer one candidate over the other. But the biggest loser may be the American political process, long held up as a model for the rest of the world to emulate.
The red hue of the moon during a total lunar eclipse gives astronomers at cue on how to find out more about the planets being discovered around other stars.
More than three thousand planets have been found orbiting other stars in our galaxy. The challenge now is to find out more about these planets.
A look at some of the more obscure methods astronomers use to detect planets around other stars, in the second of a two-part series on finding world's elsewhere in the universe.
Astronomers have discovered more than 3,000 planets around other stars, so far. In the first of a two-part series we look at how they find world's elsewhere in the universe.
Many of the new planets found in other star systems have some extraordinary orbital behavior. So what's going on?
News of the Hiroshima bombing spread quickly to the US public but, thanks to science fiction writers, atomic bombs were discussed more before the war began than during it.
The first atom bomb test seventy years ago today marks the start of a change in Americans' thinking about radiation. On balance, our nuclear anxieties endure today.
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Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
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Postdoc astrophysicist, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Clinical Professor of Behavior, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University
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Prehistoric Archeologist, Mississippi State University
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Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine; Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Mississippi State University
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Clinical Instructor of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University
