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Athletes looking for a competitive edge may find it within their gut microbiome

  • Written by Christopher Damman, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageYour gut microbes and mitochondria may give you a leg up come race day.rzarek/iStock via Getty Images Plus

When milliseconds can mean the difference between silver and gold, endurance athletes in sports like marathon running, cycling, rowing and swimming optimize every aspect of their physiology for a competitive edge.

Many of these efforts result...

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Unequal access to quantum information education may limit progress in this emerging field − now is the time to improve

  • Written by Bethany Wilcox, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
imageA research assistant at the the German National Metrology Institute studies an atomic clock.AP Photo/ Focke Strangmann

Quantum information science uses the physics that describes the smallest particles – such as electrons or photons – to potentially revolutionize computing and related technologies. This new field can be used for a wide...

Read more: Unequal access to quantum information education may limit progress in this emerging field − now is...

COVID-19 devastated teacher morale − and it hasn’t recovered

  • Written by Lesley Lavery, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
imageMore than half of all teachers have thought about calling it quits.PenelopeB/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Kansas faces the worst teacher shortfall in its history. The 4,000 teaching vacancies Florida faces as the new school year approaches “is more than the population of teachers in 19 of Florida’s smallest counties combined,” the...

Read more: COVID-19 devastated teacher morale − and it hasn’t recovered

GOP attacks against Kamala Harris were already bad – they are about to get worse

  • Written by Stephen J. Farnsworth, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Leadership and Media Studies, University of Mary Washington
imageVice President Kamala Harris attends a political event on July 17, 2024, in Kalamazoo, Mich. Chris duMond/Getty Images

Public opinion polls suggest that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is doing slightly better than Joe Biden was against Donald Trump, but Republican attacks against her are only now ramping up.

Even as a candidate for vice...

Read more: GOP attacks against Kamala Harris were already bad – they are about to get worse

US says it wants Palestinians to have a country of their own – but its actions say otherwise

  • Written by Dennis Jett, Professor of International Affairs, Penn State
imagePalestinian and Israeli flags fly in old Jerusalem. iStock / Getty Images Plus

Spain, Ireland and Norway recognized a Palestinian state in May 2024, bringing the total number of countries that do so to 144.

The United States is not one of them.

The U.S. has officially favored a two-state solution, meaning both Israel and a Palestinian state would...

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Amid humanitarian crisis and ongoing fighting, Africa’s war-scarred Sahel region faces new threat: Ethno-mercenaries

  • Written by Yasir Zaidan, Phd Candidate, University of Washington
imageSoldiers of the Rapid Support Forces are being supported by foreign fighters.AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis after more than a year of civil war shows few signs of abating. And amid the fighting, a significant and troubling development looks set to complicate the conflict and spread it beyond Sudan’s borders:...

Read more: Amid humanitarian crisis and ongoing fighting, Africa’s war-scarred Sahel region faces new threat:...

How do 9 states get by with no income tax? A tax expert explains the trade-offs they choose

  • Written by Caroline Bruckner, Executive in Residence, Department of Accounting and Taxation, American University Kogod School of Business
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

How can some states get by with no income tax? – Vonnie, age 12, Auburn, Alabama

Right before I was born in the 1970s, my family moved to Texas from Nebraska. A big reason was because...

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Bob Newhart was more than an actor or comedian – he was a literary master

  • Written by Mark Canada, Chancellor and Professor of English, Indiana University Kokomo, Indiana University Kokomo
imageA classic Newhart bit involved making imaginary phone calls, such as in his 'Abe Lincoln' bit.AP Photo/Jerome T. Nakagawa

If you knew Bob Newhart only as an actor – most notably as the star of the legendary “Bob Newhart Show” but also in a minor though memorable role in the movie “Elf” – you may not have thought...

Read more: Bob Newhart was more than an actor or comedian – he was a literary master

Bugs thrive in urban Los Angeles – volunteers’ traps reveal biodiversity hot spots for city insects and spiders

  • Written by Laura Melissa Guzman, Assistant Professor of Biology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageVolunteers tend to an insect trap in Los Angeles.Deniz Durmus, courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, CC BY-SA

The most significant predictors of bug biodiversity in Los Angeles are proximity to the mountains and temperature stability throughout the year, according to a study weco-authored with Brian V. Brown of the Los...

Read more: Bugs thrive in urban Los Angeles – volunteers’ traps reveal biodiversity hot spots for city...

Diabetes and obesity can damage the liver to the point of failure – but few people know their risk of developing liver disease

  • Written by Madona Azar, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
imageInsulin resistance links MASLD to several other metabolic diseases.Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

Liver disease is frighteningly common worldwide.

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, is an umbrella term describing conditions related to a buildup of fat in the liver. Formerly known as nonalcoholic...

Read more: Diabetes and obesity can damage the liver to the point of failure – but few people know their risk...

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  2. Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation
  3. Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race
  4. Massive IT outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in the global information ecosystem
  5. What is Catholic Integralism?
  6. Online rumors sparked by the Trump assassination attempt spread rapidly, on both ends of the political spectrum
  7. Biden’s and Trump’s ages would prevent them running many top companies – and for good reason
  8. How the Ukrainians – with no navy – defeated Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
  9. Affordable housing in God’s backyard: Some religious congregations find a new use for their space
  10. Age would prevent Trump and Biden from running many top companies − and for good reason
  11. Why I turned the ‘Red Dead Redemption II’ video game into a history class on America’s violent past
  12. Sports in extreme heat: How high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of practice, and the warning signs of heat illness
  13. Fewer bees and other pollinating insects lead to shrinking crops
  14. Cutting marketing spending often backfires on businesses – new research could help investors distinguish shortsighted cuts from smart ones
  15. Sports in extreme heat: Warning signs of heat illness and how high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of team practices
  16. Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling
  17. Voting rights at risk after Supreme Court makes it harder to challenge racial gerrymandering
  18. After more than 40 years, the federal right to free education for immigrant students finds itself in the crosshairs of conservatives
  19. Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’ is just the latest action plan from a group with an over 50-year history of steering GOP lawmaking
  20. Late bedtimes and not enough sleep can harm developing brains – and poorer kids are more at risk
  21. Republicans wary of Republicans – how politics became a clue about infection risk during the pandemic
  22. Pennsylvania continues tradition as ‘keystone state’ in presidential elections
  23. What the Catholic Church says about political violence and the need to forgive – even would-be assassins
  24. ‘MAGA BLACK’ hats, clear swag bags, the first Trump/Vance signs: Highlights of what the Smithsonian is archiving from the Republican convention
  25. Baby bull sharks are thriving in Texas and Alabama bays as the Gulf of Mexico warms
  26. How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist, more-sexist past
  27. AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
  28. Supreme Court’s blow to federal agencies’ power will likely weaken abortion rights – 3 issues to watch
  29. The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery
  30. A short history of the rise, fall and return of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station
  31. Stroke survivors may be saddled with an invisible disability known as spatial neglect – but a simple treatment offers significant improvement
  32. Want to spur your child’s intellectual development? Use audiobooks instead of videos
  33. The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
  34. America faces a power disconnection crisis amid dangerous heat: In 27 states, utilities can shut off electricity for nonpayment even in a heat wave
  35. Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
  36. Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
  37. Target just became the latest US retailer to stop accepting payment by checks. Why have so many stores given up on them?
  38. Trump-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s classified document case is unconstitutional – here’s how special counsels have been authorized before
  39. How to protect your home from wildfires – here’s what fire prevention experts say is most important
  40. New research suggests estrogen and progesterone could play role in opioid addiction and relapse
  41. Trump’s assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  42. Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  43. Electing a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
  44. Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
  45. How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap
  46. Could people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
  47. Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
  48. Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited
  49. ‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
  50. Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public