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People who falsely believe they are able to identify false news are more likely to fall victim to it, according to a study published in Proceedings…

Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental…

COVID-19 has been associated with increases in opioid overdose deaths, which may be in part because the pandemic limited access to buprenorphine, a…

Increasing diversity remains a key priority at universities, especially in the wake of mass demonstrations in support of racial equality in 2020…

While the World Bank and other multilateral development banks are increasingly investing in renewable technologies and phasing out coal power…

Social distancing not only helped slow the spread of COVID-19 — it also may have prevented the transmission of an outbreak of a rare polio-like…

Life expectancy in the United States dropped in 2020 due to COVID-19, but, for American adults without a college degree, an increase in mortality…

Climate change is generally portrayed as an environmental and societal threat with entirely negative consequences. However, some sectors of the…

In coming decades as coastal communities around the world are expected to encounter sea-level rise, the general expectation has been that people’s…

The recent killings of Black Americans have reignited calls for policing reform, including proposals to diversify police departments, which have…