The Hollywood flick recalls subprime’s role in the 2008 financial crisis, but, by helping more low-income households buy a home, the loans can help ease the affordability crisis and homelessness.
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The discovery of Homo naledi has been a social media sensation, recording an extraordinary number of views – more than 170,000 – for a scientific paper.
As a Jesuit, Pope Francis is part of a long tradition of religious men of science. Will his leadership influence the Catholic Church’s stance on contemporary scientific issues?
Students are going hungry on college campuses. The latest survey shows that four in 10 University of California students do not have access to nutritious food.
Despite claims about its age, puzzling combinations of features from Homo naledi gives it an uncanny resemblance to human beings.
What can a bunch of people grunting in a lab teach us about our capacity to create language systems? A lot about the gesture- or vocalization-based origins of language.
Did your child just drop the F-bomb? What can you do?
Not all Asian-Americans are high-achieving model minorities. What happens when the myth of Asian disadvantage hurts some of the most marginalized students in the US?
A recent study concluded that children who watched Sesame Street in the 1970s fared better in school. Why?
The proposal to change Wisconsin tenure rules comes up for a vote by the state’s full Senate and House later this month. What will be the consequences?
The remarkable rise in student debt makes for provocative headlines that aren’t always supported by the available research.
Four former university presidents speak up for the liberal arts.
There’s a lot of attention right now on diversity in children’s books – or, more accurately, the lack of it. It’s not a new problem. White people have been talking about this issue since Nancy Larrick…
It’s no secret that yoga can aid mental well-being. What is more, it can help soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to new research. Some of the most damaging consequences of…
Today, just three companies – Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta – account for about half of all commercial seed sales. More and more, agricultural patents are used to increase the control these and similar…
The rise of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has ushered in an era of intense drilling that has been called the great shale gas rush. Fracking allows oil and natural gas to be extracted from horizontal…
New, inexpensive materials have been successfully used to create solar-powered fuel. The sun’s rays can drive reactions to…
The analysis of microscopic zircon crystals from Western Australia’s Jack Hills region has strengthened the theory of a “cool…
The female sex hormone oestrogen can be produced and released from the brain as well as the ovaries, according to a study. The research, recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that the…
A US study has found children in families living with incomes under 200% of the poverty line have less grey matter – brain…
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Meteorologist and Research Program Manager, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Legal Director, State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development & Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Researcher, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Distinguished Teaching Faculty of Civil Society & Community Studies, Director of Global Health and Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Research Coordinator, Urban and Regional Food System Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Dean of the School of Human Ecology, Professor of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, University of Wisconsin-Madison