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Space weather forecasting needs an upgrade to protect future Artemis astronauts

  • Written by Lulu Zhao, Assistant Research Scientist in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
imageThe Sun can send out eruptions of energetic particles.NASA/SDO via AP

NASA has set its sights on the Moon, aiming to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2026 and establish a long-term presence there by the 2030s. But the Moon isn’t exactly a habitable place for people.

Cosmic rays from distant stars and galaxies and solar energetic...

Read more: Space weather forecasting needs an upgrade to protect future Artemis astronauts

Ukraine’s draft woes leave the West facing pressure to make up for the troop shortfall

  • Written by Nicolai N. Petro, Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island
imageUkrainian soldiers unload supplies from a truck in Kharkiv Oblast.Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images

Ukraine’s current military recruitment campaign is not going according to plan.

Announced on April 16, 2024, the drive was aimed at enlisting hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian men to help push back against a Russian invasion...

Read more: Ukraine’s draft woes leave the West facing pressure to make up for the troop shortfall

People ambivalent about political issues support violence more than those with clear opinions

  • Written by Joseph Siev, Postdoctoral Fellow in Consumer Behavior, University of Virginia
imageMany people who hold political views are uncertain about their opinions.GSO Images/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Choices about political candidates and issues are inherently limited and imperfect, leading many people to feel mixed emotions, and even conflicting opinions, about which candidate or position they prefer.

In general, being ambivalent...

Read more: People ambivalent about political issues support violence more than those with clear opinions

Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

  • Written by Anthony Siracusa, Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement, St. John Fisher University
imageCivil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015.AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File

Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement.

Lawson is best known for piloting two crucial civil rights campaigns...

Read more: Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the...

Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people

  • Written by Nicole Lee Schroeder, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kean University
imageDrawing shows men making shoes at the Philadelphia Almshouse, circa 1899.Alice Barber Stephens/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection

Charles Kingley was a widower and a single father of four who lived in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1829. He worked at a brewhouse but...

Read more: Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward...

Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning

  • Written by John Weigand, Professor of Architecture and Interior Design and Interim Dean, College of Creative Arts, Miami University
imageRooftop construction at a high-rise building undergoing conversion to apartments in Manhattan's financial district in New York City, April 11, 2023. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

It took a global pandemic to convince American businesses that their employees could work productively from home, or a favorite coffee shop. Post-COVID-19, employers are struggl...

Read more: Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into...

Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people

  • Written by Robert Rosenberger, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageIndividual rules against activities such as camping or just resting on a ledge may not seem like a big deal. But taken together, they make life more difficult for people without shelter.Robert Rosenberger

Should cities be allowed to outlaw sleeping in public, even when there are no beds available in local shelters? This is what the U.S. Supreme...

Read more: Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are...

Inflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut in 2024

  • Written by Christopher Decker, Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageU.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks to reporters on June 12, 2024.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

It was a double-whammy Wednesday for economic-data enthusiasts.

During the morning of June 12, 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published its latest inflation figures. The news was relatively good, showing that inflation rose 3.3% in...

Read more: Inflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut...

Microrobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment

  • Written by Zhengxing Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
imagePart algae, part red blood cell, these microrobots can travel to hard-to-reach tumors deep in the lungs.From Zhang et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadn6157 (2024), CC BY-NC

Tumors that travel to the lungs, or lung metastases, pose a formidable challenge in the realm of cancer treatment. Conventional chemotherapy often falls short because it’s...

Read more: Microrobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment

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  2. There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black
  3. ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ may be many Americans’ image of Judaism – but American Jews’ heritage is stunningly diverse
  4. Politics is still both local and personal – but only for independents, not for Democrats or Republicans
  5. Wastewater surveillance reveals pathogens in Detroit’s population, helping monitor and predict disease outbreaks since 2017
  6. Paris 2024 Olympics to debut high-level breakdancing – and physics in action
  7. Food has a climate problem: Nitrous oxide emissions are accelerating with growing demand for fertilizer and meat – but there are solutions
  8. African elephants address one another with name-like calls − similar to humans
  9. 8 fun questions about The Conversation
  10. How reciting the Pledge of Allegiance became a sacred, patriotic ritual
  11. PFAS are toxic ‘forever chemicals’ that linger in our air, water, soil and bodies – here’s how to keep them out of your drinking water
  12. Summertime can be germy: A microbiologist explains how to avoid getting sick at the barbecue, in the pool or on the trail
  13. Independent voters are few in number, influential in close elections – and hard for campaigns to reach
  14. Losing winter ice is changing the Great Lakes food web – here’s how light is shaping life underwater
  15. Are older adults more vulnerable to scams? What psychologists have learned about who’s most susceptible, and when
  16. Complaints are different when customers think a company cares
  17. Coral reef recovery could get a boost from an unlikely source: Sea cucumbers, the janitors of the seafloor
  18. Biden and Trump may forget names or personal details, but here is what really matters in assessing whether they’re cognitively up for the job
  19. The warming ocean is leaving coastal economies in hot water
  20. How DEI rollbacks at colleges and universities set back learning
  21. American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited, too
  22. NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
  23. How do you build tunnels and bridges underwater? A geotechnical engineer explains the construction tricks
  24. Indian election was awash in deepfakes – but AI was a net positive for democracy
  25. How much do you need to know about how your spouse spends money? Maybe less than you think
  26. 2020’s ‘fake elector’ schemes will be harder to try in 2024 – but not impossible
  27. Why is it so hard to know how many independent voters there are?
  28. Getting services to people in need often relies on partnerships between government and nonprofits, but reporting requirements can be too onerous
  29. AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition
  30. Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don’t know much about its shape
  31. Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska
  32. Records of Pompeii’s survivors have been found – and archaeologists are starting to understand how they rebuilt their lives
  33. New database features 250 AI tools that can enhance social science research
  34. Beyond Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ – lessons from Michigan’s serial cereal entrepreneurs
  35. Menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms – but many people aren’t aware of the latest advances
  36. 5 reasons Supreme Court ethics questions are more common now than in the past
  37. Laws meant to keep different races apart still influence dating patterns, decades after being invalidated
  38. Only 1.8% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased
  39. Only 1.6% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased
  40. AI plus gene editing promises to shift biotech into high gear
  41. All shook up? UK’s Nigel Farage is the latest to bear the brunt of pelting as popular politics
  42. Emigration: The hidden catalyst behind the rise of the radical right in Europe’s depopulating regions
  43. Job figures are coming out, and here’s my prediction: The markets will overreact to the headlines
  44. The disproportionate toll that COVID-19 took on people with diabetes continues today
  45. 90% of Michigan state troopers are white − why making the force more representative is a challenge
  46. Young adults who fare relatively well after spending time in the child welfare system say steady support from caring grown-ups made a big difference
  47. Cities contain pockets of nature – our study shows which species are most tolerant of urbanization
  48. Summer reading: 5 young-adult fiction novels that explore LGBTQ+ teen lives
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  50. What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its history − an art historian explains