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Federal energy office illustrates the perils of fluctuating budgets and priorities

  • Written by Christelle Khalaf, Associate Director, Government Finance Research Center, University of Illinois Chicago
imageHow much money goes into which pile often changes with the presidency.valiantsin suprunovich/iStock / Getty Images Plus

When new presidential administrations enter the White House, federal agencies often find their funding and priorities shifting, sometimes dramatically.

I’m a scholar who studies how policy and market shifts affect regional...

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‘Monkey Biz-ness’: Pop culture helped fan the flames of the Scopes ‘monkey trial’ 100 years ago − and ever since

  • Written by Ted Olson, Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
imageThe star attorneys of the Scopes trial: Clarence Darrow, left, for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution. Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images

Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution.

Less well...

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3D-printed model of a 500-year-old prosthetic hand hints at life of a Renaissance amputee

  • Written by Heidi Hausse, Associate Professor of History, Auburn University
imageTechnology is more than just mechanisms and design -- it's ultimately about people. Adriene Simon/College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, CC BY-SA

To think about an artificial limb is to think about a person. It’s an object of touch and motion made to be used, one that attaches to the body and interacts with its user’s world.

Historic...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will help astronomers investigate dark matter, continuing the legacy of its pioneering namesake

  • Written by Samantha Thompson, Astronomy Curator, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
imageThe Rubin Observatory is scheduled to release its first images in 2025.RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/B. Quint

Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of the cosmos seems to be made of an invisible material astronomers call dark matter.

Astronomers...

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Diversifying the special education teacher workforce could benefit US schools

  • Written by Elizabeth Bettini, Assistant Professor of Special Education, Boston University
imageThe demographics of the special education teacher workforce have remained static, but the student population these educators serve is becoming more diverse.Courtney Hale/E+ via Getty Images

Teachers of color positively impact all students, including students of color with disabilities. Yet, the special education teacher workforce is overwhelmingly...

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Charitable giving grew to $593B in 2024, propelled by a strengthening US economy and a booming stock market

  • Written by Jon Bergdoll, Associate Director of Data Partnerships at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
imagePaul Newman, the late actor and philanthropist, co-founded Camp Boggy Creek, which children with serious illnesses and their families attend for free. AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack

U.S. charitable giving increased 3.3% to US$593 billion in 2024, lifted by the strength of the economy.

The annual report from the Giving USA Foundation, produced in...

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Presidents of both parties have launched military action without Congress declaring war − Trump’s bombing of Iran is just the latest

  • Written by Sarah Burns, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
imagePresident Donald Trump is seen on a monitor in the White House press briefing room on June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military strike on three sites in Iran. AP Photo/Alex Brandon

In the wake of the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities on June 22, 2025, many congressional Democrats and a few Republicans have objected to President Donald...

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How the end of carbon capture could spark a new industrial revolution

  • Written by Andres Clarens, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
imageSteelmaking uses a lot of energy, making it one of the highest greenhouse gas-emitting industries. David McNew/Getty Images

The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing.

Many of the grant recipients were...

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3 years after abortion rights were overturned, contraception access is at risk

  • Written by Cynthia H. Chuang, Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Penn State
imageWomen living in states that ban or severely restrict abortion may be especially motivated to avoid unintended pregnancy.Viktoriya Skorikova/Moment via Getty Images

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization eliminated a nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion and returned the autho...

Read more: 3 years after abortion rights were overturned, contraception access is at risk

To spur the construction of affordable, resilient homes, the future is concrete

  • Written by Pablo Moyano Fernández, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis
imageA modular, precast system of concrete 'rings' can be connected in different ways to build a range of models of energy-efficient homes.Pablo Moyano Fernández, CC BY-SA

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction.

But wood construction isn’t engineered for long-term durability, and it oft...

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  15. Nuclear scientists  have long been targets in covert ops – Israel has brought that policy out of the shadows
  16. Nuclear scientists have long been targets in covert ops – Israel has brought that policy out of the shadows
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