Having trouble picking the right health insurance plan? Let an algorithm decide
Ben Handel, University of California, Berkeley
One key goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to lower health care costs by giving consumers more...
To fight Zika, let’s genetically modify mosquitoes – the old-fashioned way
Jeffrey Powell, Yale University
The near panic caused by the rapid spread of the Zika virus has brought new urgency to the question of how...
Has the library outlived its usefulness in the age of Internet? You’d be surprised.
Donald A. Barclay, University of California, Merced
U.S. institutions of higher education and U.S. local governments are under extraordinary pressure to cut costs and eliminate...
From generations of infidelity and pain, Beyoncé makes ‘Lemonade’
Naeemah Clark, Elon University
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. But apparently a woman scorned is also the foundation of a creative tour...
Should we worry about arsenic in baby cereal and drinking water?
Stuart Shalat, Georgia State University
Even though most people don’t know much about chemicals in general or poisons in particular, virtually everyone knows that arsenic...
Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarian
Andrew Smith, Drexel University
In case you’ve forgotten the section on the food web from high school biology, here’s a quick refresher.
Plants make up the...
At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife
Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina
The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what...
Why we need a ‘moon shot’ to catalogue the Earth’s biodiversity
Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
It’s unlikely that presidential candidates will ever utter the word “biodiversity” while...
