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How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media and protect your peace of mind

  • Written by Annie Margaret, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
imageSocial media often serves up disturbing images but you can minimize your exposure.Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images

When graphic videos go viral, like the recent fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, it can feel impossible to protect yourself from seeing things you did not consent to see. But there are steps you can take.

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Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

  • Written by Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
imagePunishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775. Interim Archives/Getty Images

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we areas Americans.&r...

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Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars – an astrobiologist explains what these traces of life are, and how researchers figure out their source

  • Written by Amy J. Williams, Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Florida
imageNASA’s Perseverance rover explores Mars' Jezero Crater.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, CC BY-NC

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars’ Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from of a unique, striped rock called Chevaya Falls. The rover’s instruments then analyzed...

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Parasitic worms bury themselves in the brains of moose and elk – a new test can help diagnose these animals to prevent disease spread

  • Written by Richard Gerhold, Professor of Parasitology, University of Tennessee
imageThe difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File

A moose in Minnesota stumbles onto the road. She circles, confused and dazed, unable to orient herself or recognize the danger of an oncoming semitruck. What kills her is the impact of 13 tons of steel, but what causes...

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‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse

  • Written by Thomas Morgan, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from the inside-out.

Darwin didn’t judge the wasps. Instead, he was troubled by what they revealed about evolution. They showed natural selection to...

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Beauty sleep isn’t a myth – a sleep medicine expert explains how rest keeps your skin healthy and youthful

  • Written by Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
imageGetting enough sleep is one of the most accessible and powerful ways to maintain healthy skin.TatyanaGl/iStock via Getty Images

Have you ever woken up after a night of poor sleep, glanced in the mirror and thought, “I look tired?”

You’re not imagining it.

I am a neurologist who specializes in sleep medicine. And though...

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Proposed cuts to NIH funding would have ripple effects on research that could hamper the US for decades

  • Written by Mohammad S. Jalali, Associate Professor, Systems Science and Policy, Harvard University
imageThe NIH is a node in an interconnected system producing health and medical advances. Anchalee Phanmaha/Moment via Getty Images

In May 2025, the White House proposed reducing the budget of the National Institutes of Health by roughly 40% – from about US$48 billion to $27 billion. Such a move would return NIH funding to levels last seen in 2007....

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Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift

  • Written by Ryan Burge, Professor of Practice, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
imageStudents leave after attending a Catholic Mass at Benedictine College on Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan.AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

For decades, one of the most consistent findings in religion research has been that women tend to be more religious than men. This holds true across dozens of countries and on nearly every measure of religiosity, from how...

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Fewer international students are coming to the US, costing universities and communities that benefit from these visitors

  • Written by Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University
imageThe international student population is expected to experience a dive in the fall of 2025. iStock/Getty Images Plus

American college campuses from Tucson to Tallahassee are buzzing with the familiar routine of students getting settled in classes and dorms.

One new trend, though, is emerging.

An estimated 30% to 40% fewer international students are...

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Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab

  • Written by John Joseph Chin, Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
imageSoon to be exchanging blinds with bars?Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images

Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of failed coup plotters to be held to account for their attempted power grab.

Brazil’s Supreme Court found Bolsonaro guilty of being part of an armed...

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  1. ‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence
  2. Detroit is the most challenging place in the country for people with asthma − here’s how to help kids in the Motor City breathe easier
  3. Who was Charlie Kirk? The activist who turned campus politics into national influence
  4. Federal subpoenas for transgender care records raise medical privacy concerns and put providers in a legal bind – a health law expert explains what’s at stake
  5. A federal program helps older people get jobs, but the Trump administration wants to get rid of it
  6. A new world order isn’t coming, it’s already here − and this is what it looks like
  7. A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
  8. How Giorgio Armani mastered the art of outfitting Hollywood stars to sell clothes to the masses
  9. How ‘South Park’ could help Democrats win back the young voters the party lost to Trump
  10. Drugged driving – including under the influence of cannabis and prescription drugs – is quietly becoming one of the most dangerous road hazards
  11. Poland responds to Russian drones incursion by invoking Article 4 of the NATO treaty − what happens next?
  12. Israeli strike in Doha crosses a new line from which relations with Gulf may not recover
  13. The discovery of a gravitational wave 10 years ago shook astrophysics – these ripples in spacetime continue to reveal dark objects in the cosmos
  14. Where does your glass come from?
  15. Sacred texts and ‘little bells’: The building blocks of Arvo Pärt’s musical masterpieces
  16. 40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn’t want to see
  17. Doctors are joining unions in a bid to improve working conditions and raise wages in a stressful health care system
  18. Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy
  19. Bail reforms across the US have shown that releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety
  20. How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard
  21. Israel’s attack in Doha underscores a stark reality for Gulf states looking for stability and growth: They remain hostage to events
  22. New report ranks Philadelphia and Allentown among toughest cities in America for people with asthma
  23. What causes muscle cramps during exercise? Athletes and coaches may want to look at the playing surface
  24. We tracked every overseas trip by world leaders since the end of the Cold War – here’s what we found
  25. The surprising recovery of once-rare birds
  26. Techno-utopians like Musk are treading old ground: The futurism of early 20th-century Europe
  27. Trump reversed policies supporting electric vehicles − it will affect the road to clean electricity, too
  28. Brazil’s Bolsonaro may soon join ranks of failed coup plotters held to account − hampering the chance of any political comeback
  29. How Trump’s dismissal of a Fed governor could redefine presidential power – if courts agree that he alone can interpret vague laws
  30. Trump’s radical argument that he alone can interpret vague laws fails its first court test in dismissal of Fed governor
  31. Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest Boricua community
  32. When you’re caught between ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ here’s why ‘maybe’ isn’t the way to go
  33. 50 years ago, NASA sent 2 spacecraft to search for life on Mars – the Viking missions’ findings are still discussed today
  34. How is paint made?
  35. Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won’t solve America’s wildfire problem
  36. Complying with Trump administration’s attack on DEI could get employers into legal trouble
  37. George Washington’s worries are coming true
  38. Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight crime blurs the legal distinction between the police and the military
  39. Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws – new research
  40. An Arkansas group’s effort to build a white ethnostate forms part of a wider US movement inspired by white supremacy
  41. Federal judges are frustrated by defiance from the Trump administration and fuzziness from the Supreme Court
  42. Helping teens navigate online racism − study shows which parenting strategy works best
  43. 3 states push to put the Ten Commandments back in school – banking on new guidance at the Supreme Court
  44. Colorado has one of the nation’s highest suicide rates − an ER doctor explains how to bring it down
  45. When it comes to wars − from the Middle East to Ukraine − what we call them matters
  46. Jury trials, a critical part of democracy, are disappearing
  47. Astrology’s appeal in uncertain times
  48. Kennedy hearing deepens crisis over dismantling of CDC leadership - health scholar explains why the agency’s ability to protect public health is compromised
  49. US obliteration of Caribbean boat was a clear violation of international ‘right to life’ laws – no matter who was on board
  50. Civil servant exodus: How employees wrestle with whether to stay, speak up or go