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Toxic lead can stay in the body for years after exposure

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imageLead can linger in bones.X-ray via www.shutterstock.com.

The ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan has highlighted just how harmful lead contamination is. What you may not realize, however, is that lead exposure is a problem throughout the U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that over four million households with children...

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The science behind why so many women want to befriend gay men

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageThere seems to be a level of implicit trust between gay men and straight women.'Chatting' via www.shutterstock.com

For years, friendships between straight women and gay men have been a subject of pop culture fascination. Books, television shows and feature length films have all highlighted this unique relationship, noted for its closeness and depth....

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Intersectionality: how gender interacts with other social identities to shape bias

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imageEveryone ticks multiple demographic boxes.Form image via www.shutterstock.com.

Actress Patricia Arquette’s comments at the 2015 Oscars award night drew criticism for implicitly framing gender equality as an issue for straight white women. She insisted that, “It’s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women...

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Good news on rain forests: they bounce back strong, storing more carbon than thought

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imageYoung secondary forest in Costa Rica, with old-growth trees visible in the background.Susan G. Letcher, CC BY-SA

When you cut and burn a tropical forest, you’re left with a barren plain of cracked red mud, incapable of supporting life – the opposite of the teeming, hyperdiverse array of life that was destroyed. Once the trees are gone,...

Read more: Good news on rain forests: they bounce back strong, storing more carbon than thought

Three ways synthetic biology could annihilate Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

In just a few short weeks, Zika has shot from being an obscure infection to a headline-hitting public health disaster. The virus is spreading rapidly across the Americas (and potentially beyond), is suspected of being associated with birth defects that affect brain development and currently has no specific vaccine or treatment.

Understandably,...

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O.J. Simpson's return: what we've learned in the 20 years since the trial of the century

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million Americans tuned in to hear the jury’s verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial. Now, just over 20 years later, there’s renewed interest in a case that has been dubbed the “trial of the century.”

During January’s Sundance Film Festival, ESPN premiered a 7.5-hour documentary titled...

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Why are so many Americans struggling to save for retirement?

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imageMost Americans will be pinching pennies after they retire. Retirement pennies via www.shutterstock.com

This week marked the beginning of the presidential primary season, and economic fears such as jobs and wages have taken center stage on the campaign trail.

Yet one of voters' biggest economic problems has thus far received short shrift from the...

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