It’s the case of the missing ‘a.’
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Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk, University of Oregon
Armstrong always insisted that he said, 'That’s one small step for a man.' Yet everyone omits the 'a' when they repeat the quote. A linguist tries to get to the bottom of what happened.
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Midlife is one of the least understood, appreciated and studied life stages.
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Frank J. Infurna, Arizona State University
What was once imagined as a time of exploration and reinvention has become marked by financial and emotional strain.
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Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University
Tick-borne diseases are becoming more common in the United States. A public health entomologist outlines some of the lesser-known threats ticks pose to human health.
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MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It's a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
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Matthew May, Boise State University
It's dismantling the Office of Personnel Management and relocating hundreds of USDA research jobs on short notice.
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