Policymakers rely on models during uncertain times to figure out how their choices could affect the future. Over the pandemic, an ensemble of many COVID-19 models outperformed any one alone.
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After a 20th-century manufacturing boom, the region has been in a decadeslong decline. Rural factory towns can blame technology and globalization for their woes.
In a greener future, what becomes of current fossil fuel workers? Despite possessing skills applicable to green industries, their geographical locations will limit their opportunities.
The hostage swap between the U.S. and Iran may be an important step in a new nuclear deal between the West and Iran.
American journalist Evan Gershkovich is being detained in Russia. But recent US-Russia prisoner swaps indicate his release is possible.
Scholars examine how state laws that restrict lessons on race could affect students and educators.
A history scholar sees leeway and loopholes in a wave of new state laws that seek to control what teachers can say about racism in America’s past.
New research finds societies are much more likely to have supernatural beliefs that concern ‘natural’ phenomena, such as extreme weather events.
Early adopters have started using ChatGPT to assist with mundane tasks like writing sick certificates and patient letters.
Childbearing goals have remained remarkably consistent over the decades. What has changed is when people start their families and how many kids they end up having.
Research shows storms that might have caused minimal damage a few decades ago are becoming stronger and more destructive as the planet warms.
A new generation of vaccines and boosters against SARS-CoV-2 may take a page from the anti-influenza playbook, with shots periodically tailored to target the most commonly circulating virus strains.
The ‘fool the eye’ cakes hearken back to popular paintings from another period in American history when there was anxiety over fakes, fraudsters and misinformation.
The reasons have a lot to do with the nature of unions as representative of workers’ views, as well as the importance of protecting their right to bargain.
Vaccination campaigns like the ones that eventually eliminated polio and measles in the United States required decades of education and awareness in order to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. population.
More than 600,000 Brazilians have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. A new report says the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro are responsible for around half.
Three tobacco-flavored cartridges and a vaping device have been approved by the FDA for sale in the US. It comes after a decadelong debate over e-cigarettes.
Land acknowledgments state that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. They’re popular – but they may harm more than they heal, say three anthropologists.
A transnational movement for racial justice requires a sensitivity to the specific, local conditions in which race and racism touch the everyday lives of people.
A second plot was planned on 9/11, but there were too few terrorists to carry it off. Twenty years later, al-Qaida and its offshoot the Islamic State group still have trouble attracting recruits.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Postdoctoral fellow, Kellogg School of Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Director of Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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David G. Frey Assistant Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of History; Director of the Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Research Associate of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
