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  “After this ruling, the character of a presidential candidate is not just relevant; it is absolutely the paramount consideration. A president who enjoys such vast immunity from criminal accountability in the courts will largely be constrained only by their own moral conscience,” wrote Len Niehoff, professor from practice of law, about the Supreme Court’s recent decision that gives a president broad immunity from criminal prosecution for acts performed while in office.

  The Detroit News
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  Climate migration narratives that tell the stories of refugees displaced by ecological catastrophe don’t change people’s views of global warming or compel them to support stronger climate policy, says Kaitlin Raimi, associate professor of public policy: “The research is a little mixed, but it mostly suggests personal narratives are better for making audiences feel connected.”

  Bloomberg
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  A mask that uses an air curtain blowing down from the brim of a hard hat can prevent airborne viruses from reaching a worker’s eyes, nose and mouth, says Herek Clack, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, whose startup developed the headworn tech: “It’s virtually unheard of — our level of protection against airborne germs, especially when combined with the improved ergonomics it also provides.”

  U.S. News & World Report
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  Research by Aster Taylor, doctoral student in astronomy, suggests that up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets that might have been one of the sources of water to our blue planet. “We don’t know if these dark comets delivered water to Earth. … (But) the work we’ve done has shown that this is another pathway to get ice from somewhere in the rest of the solar system to the Earth’s environment.”

  Earth.com
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  “How quickly muscle can contract or how many ways muscle can generate power have new and unexpected answers when one takes a more integrated and holistic view of muscle as a complex and hierarchically organized material rather than just a bag of molecules. Muscle is more than the sum of its parts,” said Suraj Shankar, assistant professor of physics.

  Press News Agency