By Chris Vagasky, Meteorologist and Research Program Manager, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Don’t blame the weatherman. A meteorologist explains where your local weather forecasts really come from, and how storm scientists are trying to fill the gap.
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By Brittany Adams, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education, University of Alabama
Elias Blinkoff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University
Karyn Allee, Associate Professor of Elementary Education, Mercer University
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Professor of Psychology, Temple University
Despite decades of legislation meant to boost children’s reading levels, literacy scores have remained relatively stagnant across the U.S. over the past 30 years.
Educators, policymakers and parents were genuinely excited in the late…
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By Olamide Asifat, Physician and Doctoral Researcher in Public Health, Georgia Southern University
Research shows that social isolation plays a major role in quality of life and risk of death in people with COPD.
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By Liao Yue, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington
Tracking glucose numbers in real time is an increasingly popular wellness trend, but monitoring a constant stream of data can lead to confusion and needless anxiety.
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By Katrine L. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois Chicago
The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.
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By Jonathan S. Weissman, Principal Lecturer of Cybersecurity, Rochester Institute of Technology
You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can’t reset your face when your biometric data is breached.
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By Gabriele Neher, Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
The first modern mention of the Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier (1614–1689) introduces an artist who defies expectation. Referring to her monumental Triumph of Bacchus (1655–59), Gustav Glück, the first art historian to serve as curator of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, wrote in 1903 that “even in an age of female emancipation, one would hardly wish to ascribe this picture, which shows a highly vigorous, almost coarse conception, to a woman’s hand”.
And thereby hangs the achievement of Wautier: she may have been able to paint “like a man”, but in most of her works, she does not…
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By Tiphaine Blanchard, enseignante en gériatrie et nutrition vétérinaire, École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse; Inrae
An original new study on pet ownership assesses how attached people are to their cats and dogs in order to understand the emotional connection and the associated health benefits at all ages.
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By Simon Kolstoe, Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
The chief executive of the UK Biobank, one of the world’s largest biomedical databases, recently wrote to over 500,000 participants telling them that some of their data had been made available for sale online through a Chinese website. This wasn’t a data breach or hack, but rather researchers who had legitimately accessed the data trying to sell it.
Although it was stated that participants…
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By François Roger, Directeur régional Asie du Sud-Est, vétérinaire et épidémiologiste, Cirad
Marie-Marie Olive, Chercheuse en épidémiologie, Cirad
In the wake of the WHO’s One Health summit, a new atlas explores the interdependency between environmental, health and food security issues, and strategies for supporting sustainability and the welfare of all life forms.
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