How technology could be a solution to caregiver shortage for seniors
Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Texas A&M University ; David Lindeman, University of California, Berkeley, and Marcia G. Ory, Texas A&M University
Young people may roll...
US health care: An industry too big to fail
Michael Williams, University of Virginia
As I spoke recently with colleagues at a conference in Florence, Italy about health care innovation, a fundamental truth resurfaced...
What’s really behind baseball’s home run surge?
Brian J. Love, University of Michigan and Michael L. Burns, University of Michigan
At the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Houston Astros pitcher Justin...
Yes, I’m searching for aliens – and no, I won’t be going to Area...
Jason Wright, Pennsylvania State University
Editor’s note: What started as an internet joke has generated a stern military warning after more than a million people...
Home birth may start babies off with health-promoting microbes
Joan Combellick, Yale University
For all of human history, babies have been born where their mothers lived – whether in a house, hut or cave....
How the Volkswagen Beetle sparked America’s art car movement
John A. Heitmann, University of Dayton
With a mariachi band playing along, the last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line of a Mexican factory...
Washington state’s big bet on ‘free college’
William Zumeta, University of Washington
Washington state doesn’t have a problem finding educated people to work in its booming high-tech economy – it’s just most...
Counterfeit alcohol, sometimes containing jet fuel or embalming fluid, is a growing concern for...
Monica H. Swahn, Georgia State University
The news about the tragic deaths of several American tourists in the Dominican Republic in May 2019 has created...
