The Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam will bring more power to Ethiopia but is already creating tensions over water rights with its neighbors Sudan and Egypt.
Tiksa Negeri/Reuters
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, under construction on the Blue Nile, will bring electricity and wealth to East Africa, but could also have harmful environmental and political impacts.
Is there an ongoing ambivalence toward people living with disabilities?
James Emery
Today’s violence and prejudice against people with disabilities goes back to the practice of institutionalization, which started in Europe and the United States a century ago.
Donald Trump addresses members of the National Rifle Association.
REUTERS/John Sommers II
The candidate endorsed by the NRA this year wasn’t always so pro-gun. A sociologist and physician explains how Trump’s position on guns could play out if he were to win in November.
Hydrogen fueling stations like this could become more common if materials scientists and other researchers keep pushing for new breakthroughs.
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Ian Anson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
New research shows that ideological media employ a powerful method to bias partisans’ economic beliefs. In turn, partisans perform mental gymnastics worthy of Simone Biles to preserve those biases.
Jose Louis Morales sits and prays under his brother Edward Sotomayor Jr.’s cross for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
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Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, State University of New York
Are Americans at increasing risk of being killed in a terrorist attack? A sociologist explains how the way we remember the dead may make it feel that way.
The linchpin to Tesla’s proposed merger with SolarCity is the Gigafactory and whether it can lower costs and improve battery performance.
Tesla Motors
Critics don’t think Tesla can sell enough home batteries to justify its acquisition of SolarCity, but what they’re underestimating is the potential for innovation the Gigafactory brings.
Seized counterfeit hydrocodone tablets.
Drug Enforcement Administration/Handout via Reuters
Many research universities have adopted ‘family-friendly’ tenure rules to help women balance family and career. However, men, not women, seem to benefit from having the extra time.
Russia is flexing its cyberattack muscles.
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Nina M. Versaggi, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Cultural resource management archaeologists don’t choose where they dig. Instead they identify, evaluate and preserve cultural heritage sites in locations slated for development.
Thousands of Turks are seeking to move after a failed coup.
REUTERS/Murad Sezer
In Turkey, the purge following the failed coup has damaged the nation. Migration experts explain how, much like after the coups of the past, people are voting with their feet and choosing to leave.
A boy in Pakistan receives oral polio vaccine in July.
REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Polio for years has been close to becoming eradicated, with the entire continent of Africa going two years without a reported case – until early August. Here’s why eradication is hard but attainable.
Lower Manhattan’s new skyline.
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Those involved with the monumental task faced many challenges as they balanced the unquestionable priority of remembrance with the commercial task of recreating an economically vibrant downtown.
Camping under the Milky Way, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
Emily Ogden, National Park Service/Flickr
As the National Park Service turns 100 years old, two conservation scholars and former park rangers respond to critics who support privatizing national parks or putting them under state control.
Health studies in Pennsylvania show links between some health problems and local fracking activity.
Les Stone/Reuters
The former KKK grand wizard from Louisiana is hopeful Trump supporters will turn out for his bid for U.S. Senate. Political scientists who have studied his career consider his chances.
An injectable medication.
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The maker of the EpiPen has raised the price of two injectable treatments to about US$600, six times the price nine years ago. Why do drug companies do this? Because they can. The FDA ends up helping.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Laboratory of Entomology and Ecology of the Dengue Branch of the CDC in San Juan.
Alvin Baez/Reuters
While no one likes getting bitten by mosquitoes, you might be surprised (and even a little fascinated) at the complex adaptions mosquitoes have developed to locate their favorite food sources.
Seymour Papert lectures on LOGO, computers and education.
Shen-montpellier
The most effective weapons in the fight to stop LGBTQ bullying might just be quite simple – young people coming together to talk, laugh and share their lives.
President Obama greets a crowd in Milwaukee in March to promote his signature health care law.
Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS
Aetna’s cutback in the ACA marketplace has raised concerns about the health of the health care law. Here’s why stories of its demise may be greatly exaggerated.
A woman protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by Baton Rouge police.
REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
No federal database provides reliable info on deaths that occur in police custody. It’s the same situation in 48 states. But now California and Texas are offering new models of accountability.
Don’t laugh at the psychological study of humor.
Laughing image via www.shutterstock.com.
Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions? Or might it force us to think more critically about them?