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Microplastic pollution is a growing problem − one lab is looking at tiny insects as inspiration for how these pollutants might move through water.
The bottoms of boats and docks can accumulate lots of dirt, but semiaquatic animals like otters avoid having ‘fouled’ fur. Their secret could one day help keep underwater infrastructure clean.
Hemp flowers and certain cannabis products contain fungal toxins, including Aspergillus and Fusarium, that can exceed acceptable regulatory levels.
A scholar of Daoist rituals explains how the indigenous tradition of China understands the human body as being part of the larger cosmos.
For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender identities.
New research shows that scrolling through Instagram can effect our processing and language capabilities. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Positive psychology focuses on science-based ideas about how to increase your happiness and live a satisfying life. Studies are following how school-based interventions affect students.
Budget cuts have resulted in increased hunger in camps in Uganda, Burundi and Kenya that house refugees from across the region.
Scientists analyzing isotope ratios have found that many of the elements that make up life could be left over from Earth’s formation.
Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and respond to the concerns of those who worship them.
A scholar of Native American and Indigenous rhetorics writes about the harm done to Native American nations through colonization and what can be done to reduce it.
How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
Scholars writing for The Conversation take a deeper look at some of the issues expected to be on the agenda when the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies meet.
A research accident in the Binder lab at the University of Tennessee led to an unprecedented discovery about how plants respond to a hormone called ethylene.
The COVID-19 pandemic affected college towns profoundly and highlighted the complex relationship between universities and their host communities.
First used in the 1970s, the social theory known as intersectionality triggered widespread debate on racial identifications and the interplay among categories.
Many Christian and Muslim families in Gaza today were displaced following the creation of new Arab and Jewish states. Today, Palestinian Christians occupy a complicated place in this region.
Medieval monastics were often discouraged from owning companion animals, which were viewed as a distraction, a religion scholar explains.
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center (UTHC), University of Tennessee
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Professor of supply chain management, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
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Lecturer in Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee
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Graduate Research Assistant in Plant Science, University of Tennessee
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PhD Student in Geography, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management; Co-Founder of CODE, University of Tennessee
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Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
