The science of how a universal basic income could end poverty in the U.S.

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January 06, 2023

Inequality The U.S. Could Help Solve Its Poverty Problem with a Universal Basic Income A universal basic income wouldn't lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into brighter futures By Michael W. Howard

Genetics Aging Is Linked to More Activity in Short Genes Than in Long Genes A detailed examination of gene activity in various organisms, including humans, reveals a new hallmark of the aging process By Diana Kwon

Sports Damar Hamlin's Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football The "terrifyingly ordinary" nature of football's violence disproportionately affects Black men By Tracie Canada

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Climate Change Will Global Emissions Plateau in 2023? Four Trends to Watch A slow economy, clean energy spending, electric vehicles and heat pumps could offset coal combustion to level carbon emissions By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Conservation A New Map Tracks the World's Largest Glaciers A visualization compares the forms of Earth's largest flows of ice By Theo Nicitopoulos,Amanda Montañez

Economics Why It's So Hard to Recycle Plastic Here's how companies and other organizations are trying to make plastics more sustainable By Sarah DeWeerdt

Engineering Mighty Morphin' Turtle Robot Goes Amphibious by Shifting Leg Shape A turtle-inspired robot can morph its legs to move from land to water and back By Sophie Bushwick

Pharmaceuticals A Valuable COVID Drug Doesn't Work against New Variants Current monoclonal antibodies fail against COVID virus variants, so drugmakers want to use a fast-track test for new ones By Charles Schmidt

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 31, Issue 3s

FROM THE ARCHIVE What Inequality Does to the Brain Poverty may affect the size, shape and functioning of a young child's brain. Would a cash stipend to parents help prevent harm? By Kimberly G. Noble | March 2017

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Can we convince our elected officials that poverty is not a moral failing, but a social condition that can be addressed by establishing an income floor below which no one falls?" Michael W. Howard, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Maine.

WHAT WE'RE READING The Curious Case of Nebraska Man A fossil tooth, a splashy debate, and a strange chapter in America's long history of science denialism   By Madeline Bodin | Atavist | Dec, 2022

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