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Breast cancer survival rates have improved dramatically over the past several decades, and close to 3 million women in the U.S. are survivors of the disease. And while higher survival rates are of course great news, many of these women live with sometimes painful effects of the harsh treatment they endured. Physical therapy is helping to change that, writes Mary Insana Fisher of the University of Dayton, to help return women “to full
activity after cancer treatments.”
The outlook for climate change is getting grimmer as the effects of global warming are beginning to take a toll. Many climate experts fear that raising awareness about the consequences of climate change erodes support for addressing the causes. Three political scientists who tested that assumption explain why they believe it’s unfounded.
For the millions of Americans who call themselves members of the Trump “resistance,” scholar Paul Steege has one question: What is a real resistance? Steege, who studies 20th-century Germany, cautions that during World War II, resistance and collaboration were two sides of the same coin. “Even ardent anti-Nazis could act in ways that abetted the exercise of Nazi power,” he writes.
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Lynne Anderson
Health + Medicine Editor
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Surviving breast cancer has been the biggest treatment goal until recent years, when attention began to turn to surviving well, as these three women appear to be.
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Mary Insana Fisher, University of Dayton
While more women than ever are surviving breast cancer, they often do so with bad side effects. Studies are showing that physical therapy early in the post-treatment phase can help.
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Climate change denial, underwater.
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Brian Greenhill, University at Albany, State University of New York; Aseem Prakash, University of Washington; Nives Dolsak, University of Washington
The results of an online survey that measured public responses to a policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions contradict a common environmental concern.
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Paul Steege, Villanova University
The 'resistance' to the Trump administration has many forms, from grassroots organizing to making music. But a historian of 20th-century Germany asks whether opposing Trump is a real resistance.
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Environment + Energy
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Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University
Hurricanes frequently move inland in the southeast US, causing widespread river flooding, but emergency plans focus on protecting people in coastal communities.
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Anna Linhoss, Mississippi State University
How do the narrow ribbons of sand that line the Atlantic and Gulf coasts withstand the force of hurricanes? The answer lies in their shape-shifting abilities.
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Peter Schumer, Middlebury College
Linguistic clues show how people around the world first developed mathematical thought.
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James Henson, University of Texas at Austin
Pollsters at the University of Texas in Austin explain why the numbers just don't add up for the Democrat.
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Gabriel Neal, Texas A&M University
Ouch! Who hasn't felt the effects of a paper cut and then cursed the gods or themselves for the injury? But have you ever wondered why they hurt so much? A professor of family medicine explains why.
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