Dr. Allan Tunkel, associate dean for medical education at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, joined WRVO's Take Care series to comment on the case of a young woman who died from meningitis and described worrisome signs to look out for.

Steven Sloman, cognitive scientist at Brown University, comments on why experts will always be needed to inform on issues ranging from the inner-workings of a fridge to complicated topics involving the economy or climate change. His comments are part of a feature that offers ways that politicians can regain peoples' trust.

The ocean waves that help drive climate cycles like El Niño may arise from the same math that governs topological insulators, according to a new study led by Brown physicist Brad Marston.

Dr. Janice Santos Cortes, a professor of urology at Brown, joined another physician at the Warren Alpert Medical School to raise public awareness of the imminent health risks Puerto Rico faces if recovery efforts aren’t heightened. Cortes has family members and medical colleagues in Puerto Rico that have conveyed a desperate situation.

A computer visualization expert at Brown University, Benjamin Knorlein, is helping scientists understand their fields in new ways with a range of technologies from virtual reality to 360-degree theaters.

A new study suggests that parked or slow moving vehicle can be every bit as deadly as one on the road. "Those can include things such as rollovers, front overs, back overs, and also children being left in the vehicle and exposed to the elements,” said Dr. Mark Zonfrillo, lead author of the study and Brown University injury researcher. He says even power windows can present dangers.

Eric M. Patashnik, professor of public policy and political Science, co-authored a new book titled "Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine” and joined the Washington Post to share the book's most significant findings. Patashnik said that contrary to popular belief, doctors begin to use treatments before their effectiveness is evaluated and that once ineffective treatment starts it can be difficult to stop.

In an op-ed that examines whether white supremacist views should be openly discussed in forums or debates on the grounds of free speech, Matthew Guterl, professor of Africana studies, explains that universities are right to promote the free and fair exchange of ideas, but to do so with the intent to foster new ideas and better understandings. Guterl suggests there is danger to giving space to "broken-down theories disproved long ago" with awful, bloody consequences, and he pointed to lessons that can be learned from W.E.B. Du Bois when he confronted one of the chief architects of white supremacy at the time.

Research data by Brown Associate Professor Amy Nunn may offer clues to the public health mystery of high HIV infection rates among heterosexual black women in Philadelphia.

With the help of researchers from Brown University, the health department tested water systems in Rhode Island that found unsafe levels of chemicals in the Oakland Association water system, which provides water for some Burrillville residents. About 175 people in Burrillville were advised not to boil their tap water because it concentrates two chemicals linked to cancer and other diseases.

A growing body of evidence lends support to the phrase, "Eyes are the window to the soul." This article cites a study led by Brown University researcher James Cavanagh that found pupils became more dilated when people had to make tradeoffs between two different, but difficult choices.