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Individual stories of perceived vaccine harms can undermine trust in vaccine safety, even if people don’t believe the vaccine was to blame.
Science explains how people are changing our natural systems, but we need to recognize the importance – and power – of emotions and the spiritual world in charting a course to the future.
We are approaching the time when robots in our daily lives will be making decisions about how to act. What guidelines should we give them?
Brazil is experiencing economic, political, social and moral crises that challenge its stability.
Smart home technologies have some major security weaknesses that better design and programming could solve.
If a person is alone in the forest when a tree falls, but she doesn’t notice it because she is texting, does it still count as solitude?
Are regular bettors and the house helped or hurt when deep-pocketed, high-volume computer-assisted bettors are wagering? Mathematicians used game theory to model this new wrinkle in parimutuel betting.
A ‘cure’ for cancer is elusive, but scientists are working on ways to detect – and even prevent – cancer cells from spreading through the body.
The boom in oil and gas development has brought new revenues to many communities in the U.S., but rural areas in particular have struggled to handle the rapid downturn in prices.
Faraway sinks, empty hand sanitizer dispensers, employees who just don’t want to change are all reasons health care workers don’t wash up as often as they should.
When it comes to many of the big decisions faced by governments and the private sector, behavioral science has more to offer than simple nudges.
Spanking does not lead to better behavior by children. Instead, it could lead to some adverse, long-term consequences.
Because Netflix continually upends established business models, evaluating the company can difficult.
Thanks to improvements in the speed and cost of DNA analysis, traditional methods of tracking diseases are increasingly being paired with genomic technology.
Bad guys or law enforcement could hack into our networked gadgets to spy on everything we do – and it’s not clear how a laptop’s video camera or an Amazon Echo fits within wiretapping laws.
Writing errors often appear in text messages, emails and other types of informal electronic communication. These errors matter when a short email is the only basis for judgment.
We now have access to an Internet containing a vast store of information much bigger than any individual brain can carry - and that’s not always a good thing.
In many parts of Nigeria, children are branded as witches and suffer abuse and even abandonment. Religion and poverty are thought to play a role.
U.C. Berkeley and the Broad Institute are fighting to control the patents on the revolutionary gene-editing technology. But there’s a lot more at stake than just who gets the credit and licensing fees.
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Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan
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Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Environment & Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Business Law, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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MBA/MS candidate, University of Michigan
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Research Professor, Michigan Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan
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Assistant Research Scientist in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Professor Emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Doutorando no Departamento de Ciências Ambientais e da Terra (Earth and Environmental Sciences), University of Michigan
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Research Fellow in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan
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