The Conversation - Young Democrats aren't sold on Biden

Wealthier, urban Americans have access to more local news – while roughly half of US counties have only one outlet or less

Sarah Stonbely, Northwestern University

The number of nonprofit news outlets is holding steady as they go out of business just as fast as they are founded.

Are fears of saying ‘no’ overblown?

Julian Givi, West Virginia University; Colleen P. Kirk, New York Institute of Technology

Nearly 80% of people have accepted invitations to events they didn’t want to attend.

How apartheid, European racism and Pelé helped cultivate a culture of diversity in US soccer that endures into Messi-era MLS

John M Sloop, Vanderbilt University

Major League Soccer is the most diverse league in the US. Its predecessor, the NASL, led the way.

Marriage is not as effective an anti-poverty strategy as you’ve been led to believe

Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia; Eleanor Brown, Fordham University; June Carbone, University of Minnesota

Marriage on its own won’t do away with child poverty, and in fact it can create even more instability for low-income families.

Your heart changes in size and shape with exercise – this can lead to heart problems for some athletes and gym rats

William Cornwell, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While athletic heart is adapted for performance, it can be cause for concern.

I’ve been studying astronaut psychology since Apollo − a long voyage to Mars in a confined space could raise stress levels and make the journey more challenging

Nick Kanas, University of California, San Francisco

Can astronauts spend prolonged time in close quarters millions of miles from Earth without killing each other?

Potato plant radiation sensors could one day monitor radiation in areas surrounding power plants

Robert Sears, University of Tennessee; Neal Stewart, University of Tennessee

What if plants in the area surrounding a nuclear reactor could act as radiation detectors, with the help of a drone?

Making it personal: Considering an issue’s relevance to your own life could help reduce political polarization

Rebecca Dyer, Hamilton College; Keelah Williams, Hamilton College

Changing the ‘psychological distance’ someone feels toward an issue can shift their attitudes in ways that might help people on opposite sides of an issue see more eye to eye.

What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently discovered virus that just claimed its first fatality

Raúl Rivas González, Universidad de Salamanca

Alaskapox was discovered in 2015 and has generally only caused mild illness – until now.

Why Bolsonaro failed to overthrow democracy – and why a threat remains

Guilherme Casarões, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP)

Federal Police arrested some of Bolsonaro’s closest aides and carried out search warrants against former ministers and high-ranked military officers. The allegation: plotting a coup.

For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for

Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows

Pictures have been teaching doctors medicine for centuries − a medical illustrator explains how