When did eating become so confusing? In the 1960s, studies began to show a link between heart disease and dietary fat, and fat was demonized. As it turns out, fat is nuanced and may not be so bad.
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Law enforcement officials aren’t trained in recognizing hate crimes, leaving national numbers on these attacks unreliable.
T.M. Landry College Prep, facing allegations of abuse, is known for getting students from poor backgrounds into Ivy League schools. An education scholar says the school’s focus was misplaced.
Meister Eckhart was a 14th-century Dominican friar, who gave sermons on the direct experience of God. His words are finding resonance among today’s spiritual seekers.
The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
¿Por qué los humanos estamos dispuestos a pasar por alto el riesgo que supone para la vida marciana la exploración y colonización del planeta rojo?
NASA’s InSight Mars lander touches down Nov. 26, part of a careful robotic approach to exploring the red planet. But human exploration of Mars will inevitably introduce Earth life. Are you OK with that?
There is more to sex than male and female. For some species there are hundreds and even thousands of sexes and mating types.
Los psicólogos cognitivos conocen la forma en la que trabaja nuestra mente. No sólo no nos damos cuenta de los errores y la información que sabemos falsa, sino que también la recordamos como cierta.
Shortages and high prices are making pharmaceuticals, often including generics, out of reach for millions of Americans.
Why is Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test so controversial with Native American groups? Two Indigenous geneticists explain the history and science behind the debate.
The toll of the opioid epidemic is often derived from toxicology reports. These rely on drug tests. A medical historian explains these tests and how they fall short of capturing why people are dying.
The Kavanaugh hearings have brought sexual assault to the forefront. A just-published study suggests that bystanders can help prevent it.
Nature doesn’t always make the things we need so three Nobel Prize winners figured out how to fast-track evolution in the lab to create medicines, biofuels and industrial chemicals for modern life.
The US and Mexico announced a bilateral trade deal that pointedly excludes Canada. A economic law expert explains what it means.
A developmental psychologist explains how she uses Harry Potter books to make child development more relatable to first-year college students, many of whom grew up on the wildly popular books.
Fifty years ago, an insurance agent named Paul Simpson was convinced of rampant bias on the evening news. So he embarked on a project to record each broadcast and store them at Vanderbilt University.
An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer Michael Lund explains how a new telescope under construction in Chile will become a vital tool for detecting objects that could devastate our planet.
As knowledge of pain and the highly addictive nature of opioids has grown, so has the knowledge grown about pain and its origins. A pain specialist explains the intricacies, and how treatment is changing as a result.
Chytrid fungus has caused a global “amphibian apocalypse,” killing frogs worldwide. Now some appear to be evolving resistance – but a closely related fungus threatens newts and salamanders.
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Associate Professor of History, Jewish Studies and European Studies, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University
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Critical Care Registered Nurse, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and Director of LAPOP, Vanderbilt University
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David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
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Research Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
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Ph.D. Student in Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
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Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Statistician and Research Lead, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of LAPOP Lab, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
