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The 2020 census and congressional apportionment have dominated the headlines in recent months. What could it all mean for the average American voter?
President Trump hinted that he would defy a Supreme Court ruling recently, though he later yielded to its authority. Andrew Jackson – Trump’s hero – likewise challenged the rule of law in the 1830s.
Restoring tropical rainforests is good for the climate, wild species and humans. But where to start? A new study pinpoints locations that will maximize benefits and minimize negative impacts.
Weeds are serious problems on sports fields, parks and other sites covered with turfgrass. A new strategy uses mechanical force to kill them instead of chemical herbicides.
Why do female college coaches seem to be held to a different standard than their male counterparts?
With the opioid crisis there is no doubt that physicians need safer, nonaddictive pain killers. Now new insights on how to create these are coming from an unlikely source: the naked mole rat.
Humans have natural cycles for when they are active and for when they sleep. Modern work and school schedules interfere with this, and more studies are showing why there’s a possible health risk.
Rising evidence shows that many psychology studies don’t stand up to added scrutiny. The problem has many scientists worried – but it could also encourage them to up their game.
For decades, New England students took field trips out into the Long Island Sound. Their data show how quickly the sound is warming, leading to fewer American lobster, rock crab and winter flounder.
This season marks the 150th anniversary of the first professional baseball team and the start of its eye-popping 81-game winning streak.
What is proof? In both law and science, it’s basically a consensus of experts – but they work at very different speeds. That means juries may reach verdicts on an issue before the science is settled.
God only started watching over us quite recently, according to a new study that analysed 414 societies from 30 world regions.
The book took eight years from conception to publication. In the earliest dummy, the monsters that millions have grown to love actually started out as horses.
Since 2008, Landsat data has been free for the world to use, spurring new applications and scientific research. But that door could soon slam shut.
Many people associate Henry David Thoreau with solitude in the outdoors. But Thoreau understood in the mid-1800s that there was no such thing as nature separate from humans.
Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table and essential for life on Earth. It may also be key to shifting away from fossil fuels toward clean sources of energy, but challenges remain.
Charter school operators have been capitalizing on lax laws that let them lease building space to themselves at above-market rates. A simple ban could end the practice, two education scholars argue.
Little effort has been made to improve the quality control of the seed supply chain as a whole in Uganda.
Cualquiera que haya tenido la gripe puede atestiguar que se siente fatal. Pero, ¿por qué? ¿Qué está sucediendo dentro del cuerpo que produce tanto dolor y malestar? Una inmunóloga lo explica.
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Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute; Professor of English, University of Connecticut
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Director, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Senior Research Scientist of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Science and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Associate Director of the ARMS Center for Gun Injury Prevention, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Education, University of Connecticut
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Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut
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Adjunct Professor of Genocide Studies and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
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Associate Research Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Earth Science, University of Connecticut
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University Teaching Fellow, Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Chief of Staff, Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Connecticut
