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A psychologist explains why certain goals may be more effective than others in breaking screen habits.
A basketball coach at a small community college in the Midwest reveals the challenges he faces on a regular basis to save…
A tweet led a scholar to consider how misinformation is changing the ways we evaluate information and trust others.
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Luck and tenacity paid off for some 15,000 migrants who may now pursue their asylum cases in the U.S. But nearly 42,000…
A federal proposal could effectively reclassify the homes of millions of Americans as rural, not urban – without anything…
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Gender equality doesn't top any country's international agenda – yet. But ever more countries, including the US,…
Discriminatory zoning and housing policies have concentrated poverty in urban America along racial lines. As a result, healthy,…
The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. But just as some of the social changes…
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Despite a decrease in traffic during the pandemic, single-vehicle car crashes increased.
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The high cost and long lead times for building computer chip factories makes it difficult for the U.S. to reverse the steady…