Culture
Performance-enhancing drugs in athletics: Research roundup
| June 9, 2015
2015 roundup of research on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics and academics as well as their potential health effects.
Author: leighton
Criminal Justice
Estimating firearms trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border
| May 20, 2015
2014 study published in Journal of Economic Geography using data on dealers with Federal Firearms Licenses to sell small arms (FFLs) to understand the flow of arms across America's southern border.
Reporting
Writing about a research study: Good examples of using scholarship in reporting
| May 12, 2015
2015 roundup of studies and related news articles that provide material for studying and improving techniques and approaches to writing about research.
Municipal
Bikeshare systems: Recent research on their growth, users’ demographics and their health and societal impacts
| May 6, 2015
2015 assessment of the state of research on bikeshare programs, with insight into user demographics, system growth, mode shift, and health and safety.
Climate Change
Comparing price and non-price approaches to urban water conservation
| April 29, 2015
2014 and 2009 studies from U.C. Riverside, Yale and the Harvard Kennedy School on the relative merits of policies to encourage efficient use of scarce water resources.
Ecology
What’s behind bee declines and colony collapse? Latest science on stress from parasites, pesticides, habitat loss
| April 24, 2015
2015 research review in Science examining a broad range of factors that negatively impact bee health, including declining biodiversity, the role of agrochemicals and climate change.
Criminal Justice
Boston Marathon bombing: Lessons learned through research
| April 19, 2015
One year after the Boston Marathon bombing, we round up a selection of research-based papers and reports that, cumulatively, help consolidate the “lessons learned."
Climate Change
Climate change and the growing risk of “megadroughts” in California and the southwestern United States
| April 14, 2015
2014 study from Cornell, the University of Arizona and the U.S. Geological Survey on the risk of multi-decade droughts in the context of ongoing climate change.
Climate Change
Electric vehicles, battery technology and renewable energy: Research roundup
| April 9, 2015
2015 roundup of research on recent technological advances that could enable wider adoption of electrical vehicles powered by sustainable energy sources.
Research
Statistical terms used in research studies: A primer for media
| April 7, 2015
From "sample" to "confounding variables," a compilation of useful statistical concepts with which journalism students and working journalists should be familiar.