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To increase renewable energy use, the Biden administration wants the US to go from seven offshore wind turbines today to enough to power 10 million homes within a decade.
Male rats transfer different hereditary information to their offspring depending on their age.
So far, most vaccines in the US are mRNA vaccines. These represent a new technology and are likely to take over the vaccine world. But how do they work? What are their weaknesses? Five experts explain.
This benefit, together with other features of the latest relief package, may greatly reduce child poverty.
It’s awfully hard to wrap your mind around a sum that large. But converting it to a more bite-size representation can affect a voter’s willingness to support government spending.
Cable providers like Comcast carry Fox News and other channels that feed conspiracy theories and lies into Americans’ homes.
Monthly payments to families with children could lift millions of US children out of poverty.
Everyone’s saying it: ‘Democracy is fragile’ in the United States. But a political science scholar says that has always been the case.
Keeping windows open while driving at a moderate speed can increase airflow inside the cabin of the car, but which ones should you keep open?
A reconstruction of a dinosaur’s back passage reveals it may have been used for visual communication.
A violent coup to overthrow the government, perpetrated and fueled by white supremacist ideology spread by the white media happened … in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898.
Hasta ahora, las únicas vacunas COVID-19 autorizadas para su uso deben mantenerse congeladas. Pero hay muchos lugares en el mundo que no pueden mantener una cadena de suministro en frío.
A social scientist argues that in the absence of strong government action, people took it upon themselves to work out conduct to stem the spread of virus.
The shipment of goods to suppliers has become technologically sophisticated. Delays in getting out the COVID-19 vaccine to people show that the breakdowns come down to something more basic.
So far, the only COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use need to be kept frozen. But there are many places in the world that can’t support a cold supply chain.
New legislative proposals want to allow ‘sex testing’ of girl athletes through genital exams and genetic and hormone testing.
Ever since players tweaked the game to reflect the medieval social order, poets and writers have used chess as an allegory for love, duty, conflict and accomplishment.
An analysis of 100 of the most powerful organizations in the world shows women are still struggling to penetrate the deepest corridors of power.
When the scientific establishment gets involved in partisan politics, surveys suggest, there are unintended consequences – especially for conservatives.
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PhD Student, Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor, Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Computational Social Science, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Associate Director, Climate System Research Center and Associate Professor of Climatology, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Senior Researcher, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Global Digital Media, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Astronomy, UMass Amherst
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Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst
