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Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions

  • Written by Jeffrey Morris, Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
imageBiases in designing a study can weaken how well the evidence supports the conclusion.FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

At a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublished study that made a big assertion.

They claimed that the study, soon to be featured in a highly publicized film called “An...

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Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift

  • Written by Darcie Price-Wallace, Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies, Northwestern University
imageTibetan nuns study during the winter examination period at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamshala, India, in 2022.Rebecca Conway/Getty Images

In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number – gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in northern India to take various levels of the...

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Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr

  • Written by Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
imageA makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

An AI-generated image of Charlie Kirk embracing Jesus. Another of Kirk posing with angel wings and halo. Then there’s the one of Kirk standing with George Floyd at the gates of heaven.

When prominent political or cultural...

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How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economy

  • Written by Rebecca Vega Thurber, Professor of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology; Director of the Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
imageA sunflower sea star may be about to snack on some sea urchins in California.Brent Durand/Moment via Getty Images

Before 2013, divers on North America’s west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters,- were a favorite food of the coast’s iconic sunflower sea stars. The giant sea stars,...

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Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox

  • Written by David Ikenberry, Professor of Finance, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder

For years, I’ve puzzled over a question that seems to defy common sense: If stock markets are hitting records and tech innovation seems endless, why aren’t companies pouring money back into new projects?

Yes, they’re still investing – but the pace of business spending is slower than you’d expect, especially outside of...

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Calling in the animal drug detectives − helping veterinarians help beluga whales, goats and all creatures big and small

  • Written by Sherry Cox, Clinical Professor of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Tennessee
imageHow do you measure the concentration of a drug in a tortoise shell?Thirawatana Phaisalratana/iStock via Getty Images Plus

In my work as a veterinary pharmacologist, I never know exactly what I’m going to get when I open my email. It could be a request from a veterinarian asking my team to determine the concentration of a drug to treat the...

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Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous ‘forever chemical’ out of waterways

  • Written by David Ramotowski, Ph.D. Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
imageBiochar, which can be made from corn, is a versatile material. Tom Fisk/pexels.com, CC BY

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a class of fire-resistant industrial chemicals, were widely used in electrical transformers, oils, paints and even building materials throughout the 20th century. However, once scientists learned PCBs were accumulating in...

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A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change

  • Written by Jacob L. Nelson, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Utah
imageBari Weiss speaks on stage on Nov. 19, 2024, in New York City. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press

For weeks, there has been a great deal of reporting about an impending shake-up in the world of television news. Paramount Global CEO David Ellison is in talks to purchase The Free Press, an online media startup launched in 2021 as a...

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Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict – in fact, it may have caused more ripples

  • Written by Fred H. Lawson, Professor of Government Emeritus, Northeastern University
imageActivists from the Ethiopian community march in protest of Donald Trump's comments on Ethiopia and the Renaissance Dam on Oct. 29, 2020, in Washington.J. Countess/Getty Images

President Donald Trump chided the United Nations on Sept. 23, 2025, for failing to resolve dangerous international conflicts around the world. “All they seem to...

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Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism

  • Written by Christopher Justin Einolf, Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
image Alex Soros is the board chair of the Open Society Foundations, the philanthropy funded by his father, George Soros.AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

The New York Times reports that a senior Department of Justice official recently “instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate” the Open Society...

Read more: Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism

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  4. Religion often shapes someone’s view of abortion – but what about a woman’s actual decision?
  5. 4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI
  6. The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply – and how to resist
  7. Personal scandals sink CEOs faster than financial fraud, research shows
  8. Why you seriously need to stop trying to be funny at work
  9. Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it’s business more than politics
  10. Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people
  11. Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help
  12. How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
  13. NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations
  14. Trump isn’t cutting Pell Grants, after all − but other changes could complicate financial aid for some students
  15. How a devastating grape pest is reshaping vineyards across Colorado’s Western Slope
  16. 2 newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun, both from up close and afar
  17. Detroit’s Gordie Howe bridge is poised to open as truck traffic between US-Canada slows – low-income residents are deciding whether to stay or go
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  20. Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’
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  27. Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation
  28. Mindfulness won’t burn calories, but it might help you stick with your health goals
  29. Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  30. Trump’s use of FBI to target ‘enemies’ echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  31. Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
  32. A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream
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