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Companies accused of crimes get more digital privacy rights than people...

Staff Writer - January 1, 2021

Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University - Newark and Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University Corporations increasingly receive the same rights as people. Now, it seems,...

Education

Congress lifts long-standing ban on Pell grants to people in prison

Staff Writer - December 24, 2020

Andrea Cantora, University of Baltimore When Congress decided in 1994 to ban federal student aid for people behind bars, it was part of a wider...

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US nonprofits raised $2.5 billion on Giving Tuesday in 2020

Staff Writer - December 19, 2020

Abhishek Bhati, Bowling Green State University CC BY-SASome 35 million Americans gave a total of US$2.5 billon on Giving Tuesday to causes of all kinds,...

Business

5 ways MacKenzie Scott’s $5.8 billion commitment to social and economic...

Staff Writer - December 17, 2020

Elizabeth J. Dale, Seattle University The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced on Dec. 15 that she had given almost US$4.2 billion to hundreds of...

Education

How remote learning is making educational inequities worse

Staff Writer - December 12, 2020

Hernán Galperin, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Stephen Aguilar, University of Southern California The Research Brief is a short take about interesting...

Health

The pitfalls of hospitals seeking donations from their rich patients

Staff Writer - November 27, 2020

Sara Konrath, IUPUI and Reshma Jagsi, University of Michigan The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Most Americans find a...

Education

Kids as young as 3 years old think YouTube is better...

Staff Writer - November 25, 2020

Brenna Hassinger-Das, Pace University and Rebecca Dore, The Ohio State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Young...

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Curved origami offers a creative route to making robots and other...

Staff Writer - November 22, 2020

Hanqing Jiang, Arizona State University and Zirui Zhai, Arizona State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Building robotic...