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How millions of people can watch the same video at the same time – a computer scientist explains the technology behind streaming

  • Written by Chetan Jaiswal, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Quinnipiac University
imageThe men's cricket World Cup final match between Australia and India on Nov. 19, 2023, had a peak of 59 million concurrent streaming viewers.AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool

Live and on-demand video constituted an estimated 66% of global internet traffic by volume in 2022, and the top 10 days for internet traffic in 2024 coincided with live streaming events su...

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A Michigan research professor explains how NIH funding works − and what it means to suddenly lose a grant

  • Written by Brady Thomas West, Research Professor of Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan
imageDemonstrators protest funding cuts outside of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on March 8, 2025.Michael Mathes/AFP via Getty Images

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has terminatedmore than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database compiled by the scientific community, and it is...

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A law seeks to protect children from sex offenders − 20 years later, the jury is still out

  • Written by Boaz Dvir, Associate Professor of Journalism, Penn State
imageMark Lunsford appears at a July 2005 rally in support of the Children's Safety Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Before his sentencing in March 2025, a convicted child rapist asked for a judgment that would have set him free in 2027. The Kansas resident received 25 years with no chance of parole.

The reason?...

Read more: A law seeks to protect children from sex offenders − 20 years later, the jury is still out

When presidents try to make peace: What Trump could learn from Teddy Roosevelt, Carter, Clinton and his own first term

  • Written by Andrew E. Busch, Professor and Associate Director, Institute of American Civics, University of Tennessee
imageU.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, center, introduces Russian and Japanese delegates during negotiations at the Portsmouth Peace Conference in Kittery, Maine, in August 1905. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Throughout his 2024 campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump made diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine-Russia war a major priority, suggesting...

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Children in military families face unique psychological challenges, and the barriers to getting help add to the strain

  • Written by Ian H. Stanley, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Clinical Psychologist, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageMilitary kids tend to drink more and have more depression than nonmilitary peers.kail9/E+ via Getty Images

“When one person joins the military, the whole family serves.”

The origin of this statement is unknown, but it captures the reality that military families confront in 2025. One member’s service shapes the lives of the entire...

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Despite Supreme Court setback, children’s lawsuits against climate change continue

  • Written by Alexandra Klass, James G. Degnan Professor of Law, University of Michigan
imageYoung Montanans, including Rikki Held, center, sued their state government and won a key ruling forcing the state government to consider greenhouse gas emissions when reviewing proposed development projects.William Campbell/Getty Images

An ancient legal principle has become a key strategy of American children seeking to reduce the effects of...

Read more: Despite Supreme Court setback, children’s lawsuits against climate change continue

Whether GDP swings up or down, there are limits to what it says about the economy and your place in it

  • Written by Sophie Mitra, Professor of Economics, Fordham University
imageThe price of eggs might mean more to some Americans than what's going on with GDP.Scott Olson/Getty Images

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the latest U.S. gross domestic product data on April 30. In the first three months of 2025, it said, GDP contracted by 0.3%. The GDP growth rate captures the pace at which the total value of goods and...

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Some ‘Star Wars’ stories have already become reality

  • Written by Daniel B. Oerther, Professor of Environmental Health Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
imageTatooine's moisture farming equipment stands in the desert of Tunisia, where parts of the 'Star Wars' movie series were filmed.Véronique Debord-Lazaro via Flickr, CC BY-SA

Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” as the opening to the first “Star...

Read more: Some ‘Star Wars’ stories have already become reality

Fleeting fireflies illuminate Colorado summer nights − and researchers are watching

  • Written by Orit Peleg, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
imageFireflies in Boulder, Colo., during the summer of 2023. Radim Schreiber/Firefly Experience, CC BY

The Colorado June air was thick with summer heat. Mosquitoes rose in clouds around us, testing our resolve while we gathered our cameras and sensors. We walked into the wetland, down the unmarked path until the cattails rose shoulder-high. The sounds...

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What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences

  • Written by Victor Counted, Associate Professor of Psychology, Regent University
imageFlourishing is about your whole life being good, including the people and places around you.Westend61 via Getty Images

What does it mean to live a good life? For centuries, philosophers, scientists and people of different cultures have tried to answer this question. Each tradition has a different take, but all agree: The good life is more than just...

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  4. Is a faith-based charter school a threat to religious freedom, or a necessity to uphold it? The weighty decision lies with the Supreme Court
  5. Guns in America: A liberal gun-owning sociologist offers 5 observations to understand America’s culture of firearms
  6. Terrorists weigh risks to their reputation when deciding which crises to exploit − new research
  7. The woman who turned the Met Gala into the biggest party of the year
  8. Pandas and politics − from World War II to the Cold War, zoos have always been ideological
  9. The legal limits of Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities like Philadelphia
  10. Trump seeks to reshape how schools discipline students
  11. In the $250B influencer industry, being a hater can be the only way to rein in bad behavior
  12. From the Chinese Exclusion Act to pro-Palestinian activists: The evolution of politically motivated deportations
  13. AI is giving a boost to efforts to monitor health via radar
  14. Forensics tool ‘reanimates’ the ‘brains’ of AIs that fail in order to understand what went wrong
  15. What is a downburst? These winds can be as destructive as tornadoes − we recreate them to test building designs
  16. How rising wages for construction workers are shifting the foundations of the housing market
  17. Bees, fish and plants show how climate change’s accelerating pace is disrupting nature in 2 key ways
  18. How a reading group helped young German students defy the Nazis and find their faith
  19. ‘Agreeing to disagree’ is hurting your relationships – here’s what to do instead
  20. Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal
  21. RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers
  22. Whooping cough is making a comeback, but the vaccine provides powerful protection
  23. No whistleblower is an island – why networks of allies are key to exposing corruption
  24. From cats and dogs to penguins and llamas, treating animals with acupuncture has become mainstream in veterinary medicine
  25. The ‘sacramental shame’ many LGBTQ+ conservative Christians wrestle with – and how they find healing
  26. Almost Zion: Remembering a short-lived Jewish state in New York
  27. Spider-Man’s lessons for us all on the responsibility to use our power, great or small, to do good
  28. Disinformation and other forms of ‘sharp power’ now sit alongside the ‘hard power’ of tanks and ‘soft power’ of ideas in policy handbook
  29. Florida panthers and black bears need a literal path for survival – here’s how the Florida Wildlife Corridor provides it in one of the fastest-growing US states
  30. How Trump promotes a radical, unscientific theory about sex and gender in the name of opposing ‘gender ideology extremism’
  31. Trump’s first 100 days show him dictating the terms of press coverage − following Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán’s playbook for media control
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  33. Trump administration’s attempt to nix the labor rights of thousands of federal workers on ‘national security’ grounds furthers the GOP’s long-held anti-union agenda
  34. Bureaucrats get a bad rap, but they deserve more credit − a sociologist of work explains why
  35. Italy’s Meloni is positioning herself as bridge between EU and Trump – but will it work?
  36. Pope Francis filled the College of Cardinals with a diverse group of men – and they’ll be picking his successor
  37. Granular systems, such as sandpiles or rockslides, are all around you − new research will help scientists describe how they work
  38. Cancer research in the US is world class because of its broad base of funding − with the government pulling out, its future is uncertain
  39. Detroit’s lack of affordable housing pushes families to the edge - and children sometime pay the price
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  41. Tensions over Kashmir and a warming planet have placed the Indus Waters Treaty on life support
  42. In talking with Tehran, Trump is reversing course on Iran – could a new nuclear deal be next?
  43. Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see
  44. Florida, once considered a swing state, is firmly Republican – a social anthropologist explains what caused this shift
  45. ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life
  46. Trump’s ‘Garden of American Heroes’ is a monument to celebrity and achievement – paid for with humanities funding that benefits everyday Americans
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