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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court says skill games are gambling. As lawmakers rush to tax them, a CMU scholar says the debate skips a more fundamental question.
Mold spores, 90-degree classrooms and aging pipes: An environmental health expert explains why Pennsylvania’s old schools are harder on kids than adults.
Decades of pollution at Pittsburgh brownfields left bacteria that evolved to survive it – and maybe help clean up contaminated soil.
Pittsburgh helped pioneer the polio vaccine. Now, as measles cases rise across Pennsylvania, an epidemiologist explains the disease and the vaccine that prevents it.
The nation’s first successful circulating library was established almost 300 years ago by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.
Many levees built in the mid-1900s do not offer enough protection for today’s storms, and small rural communities in particular struggle to afford needed upgrades.
TikTok’s lawsuit fits a pattern – from cigarettes to opioids – of courts stepping in where lawmakers won’t.
Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s – and what experts can do about it.
New Penn State research on nearly 200,000 Pennsylvania teens finds everyday bonds with family, school and community may help prevent youth suicide.
Energy is meant to improve people’s lives. Often cost prevents residents from making the most of that opportunity, so they cut back on energy use to be able to pay the bills.
Nearly 14,000 people in one Pittsburgh-area county could lose a benefit that’s long been considered one of the country’s most effective anti-poverty tools.
A Carnegie Mellon University marketing researcher explains why the love of a retro Pizza Hut has more to do with the relationships attached to it than pizza.
Pennsylvania logged 852 severe weather reports from March through June – more than double the 30-year average. A meteorologist explains what keeps the storms coming.
Wastewater from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas wells is salty and radioactive, and doesn’t suppress dust. Two researchers explain why it keeps ending up on rural roads.
Allegheny County can now order treatment for people with serious mental illness. But what’s driving results – the order itself or the services behind it?
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court says skill games are gambling. As lawmakers rush to tax them, a CMU scholar says the debate skips a more fundamental question.
Two romance bookstores opened in Lawrenceville in early 2026. A psychologist explains why readers want community beyond their screens.
A late-19th century campaign spearheaded by Foster’s brother sought to elevate him into the pantheon of American cultural heroes, even as his sympathies tended to lie with the pro-slavery South.
When coroners shield their records from public view, they’re not just violating the public trust. Often, they’re also breaking the law.
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Professor of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Kentucky
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Senior Lecturer, Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Biology, Allegheny College
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Regional Economist, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Kent State University
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Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Reader of Human Geography, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer of Arts, Culture & Media, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Environmental Law, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles
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C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
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Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Chatham University
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Assistant Professor of Nursing and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh