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FDA’s abrupt flip-flop on Moderna’s mRNA flu shot highlights growing risks to drug-makers of investing in vaccines

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Villanova University
imageFederal health officials have raised safety concerns about mRNA vaccines, although they have provided no credible data on health risks.NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Food and Drug Administration’s decision, made public on Feb. 10, 2026, to not review an application to approve Moderna’s proposed mRNA-based flu vaccine set off a firestorm...

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Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving

  • Written by Nathalie Vriend, Associate Professor of Thermo Fluid Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder

A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada as an intense storm brought heavy snow to the region on Feb. 17, 2026. Six of the skiers were rescued, but eight others didn’t survive and another was missing. The region was under an avalanche warning rated high...

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How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives

  • Written by Bert Johnson, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
imageBernie Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington, greets Jesse Jackson backstage at a 1988 Vermont rally where he endorsed Jackson's presidential bid.AP Photo/Toby Talbot

Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and organizer, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, helped pave...

Read more: How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives

How deregulation made electricity more expensive, not cheaper

  • Written by Noah Dormady, Associate Professor of Public Policy, The Ohio State University
imagePlugging in costs more these days.Devonyu/iStock / Getty Images Plus

American families are feeling the pinch of rising electricity prices. In the past five years alone, the generation portion of the standard service residential electric bill in Columbus, Ohio, has increased by 110%. This is one data point in a national trend.

Energy affordability is...

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When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years

  • Written by Nicole L. Novak, Research Assistant Professor of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
imageMinneapolis residents mobilized to protest against ICE and to support immigrant members of their community.Fibonacci Blue/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

The Trump administration announced on Feb. 12, 2026, that it is ending Operation Metro Surge, its deployment of more than 3,000 federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis, St. Paul...

Read more: When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years

Florida’s immigrant entrepreneurs are creating jobs and prosperity in their communities

  • Written by Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Cultural Digital Collections Manager, University of Florida
imageFounded in 1988, Mary's Cafe & Coin Laundry in Miami, Fla., has been owned by three generations of one family that immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba.Photo courtesy of the owners of Mary’s Cafe in Miami, Fla., CC BY-NC-ND

Immigration to the U.S. is often framed as a problem to be managed, controlled or punished. Immigrants are often derided...

Read more: Florida’s immigrant entrepreneurs are creating jobs and prosperity in their communities

Your gut microbes can be anti-aging – scientists are uncovering how to keep your microbiome youthful

  • Written by Bill Sullivan, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
imageA diet high in fiber can diversify your gut microbiome – and potentially improve your health and longevity.Mint Images/Mint Images RF via Getty Images

People have long given up on the search for the Fountain of Youth, a mythical spring that could reverse aging. But for some scientists, the hunt has not ended – it’s just moved to a...

Read more: Your gut microbes can be anti-aging – scientists are uncovering how to keep your microbiome youthful

TrumpRx, Trump Kennedy Center, Trump National Parks passes − government free speech allows the president to name things after himself

  • Written by Jason Zenor, Associate Professor of Mass Communication, State University of New York Oswego
imageDonald Trump's name has been added to the Kennedy Center, but the institution's name change is not yet official.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

In November 2025 the Trump administration announced a special park pass commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary that featured images of two presidents: George Washington and Donald Trump.

Featuring the...

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From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers

  • Written by John M. Kinder, Professor of History and American Studies, Oklahoma State University
imageProtesters clash with law enforcement after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis.Arthur Maiorella/Anadolu via Getty Images

The negative public reaction to Operation Metro Surge – the violent immigration dragnet in Minnesota – was “MAGA’s Gettysburg,” wrote New York Times columnist...

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I asked students whether they’d want to be teachers? They quickly responded, ‘Why would I?’

  • Written by Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Education, Health and Behavior Studies, University of North Dakota
imageTeachers are often expected to juggle many competing responsibilities, fueling a sense of burnout. www.andrerucker.com/Getty Images

I spoke in January 2026 with 150 high school students about career options. After explaining my own career as a professor of education, health and behavior, I asked the students a simple question: Would you want to be...

Read more: I asked students whether they’d want to be teachers? They quickly responded, ‘Why would I?’

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  1. Iran-US nuclear talks may fail due to both nations’ red lines – but that doesn’t make them futile
  2. Revisiting the story of Clementine Barnabet, a Black woman blamed for serial murders in the Jim Crow South
  3. In World War II’s dog-eat-dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order
  4. Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why
  5. New dietary guidelines prioritize ‘real food’ – but low-income pregnant women can’t easily obtain it
  6. 3 generations of Black Philadelphia students report persistent anti-Black attitudes in schools
  7. Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub
  8. White men file workplace discrimination claims but are less likely to face inequity than other groups
  9. Atrocities take place in democratic nations as well as autocratic ones – our database has logged them all
  10. How do people know their interests? The shortest player in the NBA shows how self-belief matters more than biology
  11. How a largely forgotten Supreme Court case can help prevent an executive branch takeover of federal elections
  12. Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?
  13. The intensity and perfectionism that drive Olympic athletes also put them at high risk for eating disorders
  14. 3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories
  15. Are women board members risk averse or agents of innovation? It’s complicated, new research shows
  16. OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
  17. Colorectal cancer is increasing among young people, as James Van Der Beek’s death reminds us – cancer experts explain ways to decrease your risk
  18. Counter-drone technologies are evolving – but there’s no surefire way to defend against drone attacks
  19. Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise
  20. Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses
  21. FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application - for reasons with no basis in the law
  22. Nearly every state in the US has dyslexia laws – but our research shows limited change for struggling readers
  23. How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
  24. Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE America Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote
  25. Cement has a climate problem — here’s how geopolymers with add-ins like cork could help fix it
  26. Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly
  27. Exiled Iranians and Venezuelans may well support regime change – but diasporas don’t always reflect the politics back home
  28. How business students learn to make ethical decisions by studying a soup kitchen in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods
  29. More than a feeling – thinking about love as a virtue can change how we respond to hate
  30. Addiction affects your brain as well as your body – that’s why detoxing is just the first stage of recovery
  31. Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
  32. Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry
  33. Trump administration losing credibility with judges and grand juries – a former federal judge explains why this is ‘remarkable and unprecedented’
  34. Living in space can change where your brain sits in your skull – new research
  35. The rise of ‘Merzoni’: How an alliance between Germany’s and Italy’s leaders is reshaping Europe
  36. Green or not, US energy future depends on Native nations
  37. Martha Washington’s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom – but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit
  38. ‘Proportional representation’ could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people feel like their voices are being heard
  39. Distrust and disempowerment, not apathy, keep employees from supporting marginalized colleagues
  40. What is and isn’t new about US bishops’ criticism of Trump’s foreign policy
  41. Why is US health care still the most expensive in the world after decades of cost-cutting initiatives?
  42. Reading to young kids improves their social skills − and a new study shows it doesn’t matter whether parents stop to ask questions
  43. Historically Black colleges and universities do more than offer Black youths a pathway to opportunity and success – I teach criminology, and my research suggests another benefit
  44. Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable
  45. How a 22-year-old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wilderness
  46. RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease
  47. Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones
  48. Why eating cheap chocolate can feel embarrassing – even though no one else cares
  49. ‘Which Side Are You On?’: American protest songs have emboldened social movements for generations, from coal country to Minneapolis
  50. As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival