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A favorite political debate asks if third-party candidates attract new voters or drain support from major party candidates. A team of researchers from Georgia State University crunched the numbers going back to 1868 and found a surprising relationship between attractive third-party candidates and voter turnout.
Later this year, the FDA’s ban on triclosan and other antimicrobial chemicals in soaps goes into effect. But, as Northwestern’s Erica Hartmann points out, these chemicals appear in a range of household items and even building materials. How are regular consumers to know just which products contain these antimicrobial chemicals?
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and supporters, Oct. 6, 2016.
AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron
Daniel P. Franklin, Georgia State University; Abigail C. Bowen, Georgia State University; Judd Thornton, Georgia State University
Third-party candidates often claim they bring out new voters. Is it true?
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Health + Medicine
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Erica Hartmann, Northwestern University
Products not under the FDA's jurisdiction don't have to list whether they contain any of the antimicrobial chemicals banned in soap by the agency.
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Environment + Energy
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Michael A. Rawlins, University of Massachusetts Amherst
For the third consecutive year, it's the hottest ever. A climate scientist explains how these predictions are made and why they're completely different from forecasting the weather.
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Economy + Business
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Marcelle Arak, University of Colorado Denver; Sheila Tschinkel, Emory University
Trump has vowed to use new bidding procedures to curb the soaring cost of new drugs. There's a better solution, however, that doesn't risk also curbing the development of lifesaving treatments.
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Education
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Kalpana Jain, The Conversation; Emily Costello, The Conversation; Danielle Douez, The Conversation
Trump's billionaire nominee for secretary of education has stirred up debate about the effectiveness of school choice. What does the research say? And, who is Betsy DeVos?
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Arts + Culture
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Michael Flaherty, Eckerd College
Time is fixed, but people experience hours, months and days in very different ways. One researcher has spent decades exploring this universal phenomenon.
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Rest of the World
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United Kingdom
Patricia Hogwood, University of Westminster
Going in with all guns blazing is not really how Europe does business – but that's never stopped Britain. United Kingdom
Ioannis Glinavos, University of Westminster
The one audience that was prepared for a hard Brexit, it seems, was the City of London. Australia
Peter Whiteford, Australian National University
According to the latest Oxfam report, the richest eight people in the world are as wealthy as the bottom 50% of the world's population. But let's scrutinise these numbers a bit more.
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