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Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students

  • Written by Christine Wen, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
imageExxon Mobil Corp.'s campus in East Baton Rouge Parish, left, received millions in tax abatements to the detriment of local schools, right.Barry Lewis/Getty Images, Tjean314/Wikimedia

Built in 1910, James Elementary is a three-story brick school in Kansas City, Missouri’s historic Northeast neighborhood, with a bright blue front door framed by...

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Bacteria in your gut can improve your mood − new research in mice tries to zero in on the crucial strains

  • Written by Andrea Merchak, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience, University of Florida
imageThe difference between one mouse's fear and another mouse's calm might be in their gut bacteria.Katriel Cho, CC BY-NC-ND

Probiotics have been getting a lot of attention recently. These bacteria, which you can consume from fermented foods, yogurt or even pills, are linked to a number of health and wellness benefits, including reducing...

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Why the United States needs NATO – 3 things to know

  • Written by Klaus W. Larres, Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Former President Donald Trump has long made it clear that he deeply resents NATO, a 75-year-old military alliance that is composed of the United States and 30 other countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

Trump escalated his criticism of NATO on Feb. 10, 2024, when he said that, if he is elected president again in...

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Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters

  • Written by Brian Van Wyck, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageThe imam of the Khadija Mosque, in the Pankow district of Berlin, talks to visitors.Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images

For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in mosques across Germany. But the German Ministry of the Interior recently announced that it had reached an agreement with the Turkish government to put an...

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For graffiti artists, abandoned skyscrapers in Miami and Los Angeles become a canvas for regular people to be seen and heard

  • Written by Colette Gaiter, Professor of Art and Design, University of Delaware
imageConstruction of Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles stalled in 2019 after the China-based developer ran out of funding.Mario Tama/Getty Images

The three qualities that matter most in real estate also matter the most to graffiti artists: location, location, location.

In Miami and Los Angeles, cities that contain some of the most expensive real...

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‘It is hijacking my brain’ – a team of experts found ways to help young people addicted to social media to cut the craving

  • Written by Annie Margaret, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
imageSome young people spend hours a day on social media.ViewApart/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies.

We are a pair of...

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Nitazenes are a powerful class of street drugs emerging across the US

  • Written by Christopher P. Holstege, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia
imageNitazenes, like this powder sample, are a class of synthetic opioids more potent than morphine and fentanyl.Joe Lamberti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the U.S. to be blamed on the powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most health systems cannot detect...

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Gold, silver and lithium mining on federal land doesn’t bring in any royalties to the US Treasury – because of an 1872 law

  • Written by Sam Kalen, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of Wyoming
imageAerial view of the Pinto Valley copper mine, located on private and U.S. national forest lands in Gila County, Ariz.Wild Horizon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

When Congress opened U.S. public lands for mining in 1872, the nation was less than a century old. Miners used picks, shovels and pressurized water hoses to pry loose valuable...

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Several companies are testing brain implants – why is there so much attention swirling around Neuralink? Two professors unpack the ethical issues

  • Written by Nancy S. Jecker, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageBrain-computer interfaces have the potential to transform some people's lives, but they raise a host of ethical issues, too.Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images

Putting a computer inside someone’s brain used to feel like the edge of science fiction. Today, it’s a reality. Academic and commercial groups are testing...

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Don’t let ‘FDA-approved’ or ‘patented’ in ads give you a false sense of security

  • Written by Michael Mattioli, Professor of Law and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University
imageIs that really a stamp of approval?iStock/Getty Images Plus

If you’ve ever reached for a bottle of moisturizer labeled “patented” or “FDA approved,” you might want to think twice. In a recent study of hundreds of advertisements, I found that supplements and beauty products often misleadingly use these terms to suggest...

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  4. Revving up tourism: Formula One and other big events look set to drive growth in the hospitality industry
  5. Back in the day, being woke meant being smart
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  9. Mayorkas impeached: Is Congress on a witch hunt? 5 ways to judge whether oversight is legitimate or politicized
  10. Immigrants do work that might not otherwise get done – bolstering the US economy
  11. Why is free time still so elusive?
  12. Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires
  13. Electric vehicles are suddenly hot − but the industry has traveled a long road to relevance
  14. Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions
  15. Global health research suffers from a power imbalance − decolonizing mentorship can help level the playing field
  16. Immigration reform has always been tough, and rarely happens in election years - 4 things to know
  17. In the face of severe challenges, democracy is under stress – but still supported – across Latin America and the Caribbean
  18. Philadelphia hopes year-round schooling can catch kids up to grade level – will it make a difference?
  19. Flowers grown floating on polluted waterways can help clean up nutrient runoff and turn a profit
  20. Our robot harvests cotton by reaching out and plucking it, like a lizard’s tongue snatching flies
  21. Early polls can offer some insight into candidates’ weak points – but are extremely imprecise
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  23. AI ‘companions’ promise to combat loneliness, but history shows the dangers of one-way relationships
  24. Family caregivers face financial burdens, isolation and limited resources − a social worker explains how to improve quality of life for this growing population
  25. A brief history of Dearborn, Michigan – the first Arab-American majority city in the US
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  28. Are you seeing news reports of voting problems? 4 essential reads on election disinformation
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  30. Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows
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  39. Supreme Court skeptical that Colorado − or any state − should decide for whole nation whether Trump is eligible for presidency
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  41. ‘Look for a reversal in a fairly short period of time’ − former federal judge expects Supreme Court will keep Trump on Colorado ballot
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