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New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is being spent

  • Written by Jonathan Larsen, Legal Technology Manager, Beasley School of Law Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University
imageThere were about 3,330 overdose deaths in Pennsylvania in 2024, down from over 4,700 in 2023. Frazao Studio Latino/E+ Collection via Getty Images

Pennsylvania is due to receive US$2.2 billion dollars from the national opioid settlements, and a new database shows the public where that money is going.

Starting in 2021, a national, bipartisan coalition...

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The president as partisan warrior: Trump’s rejection of traditional presidential statesmanship

  • Written by Julia R. Azari, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Marquette University
imageAfter taking control of the board earlier in the year, President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 13, 2025, the nominees of the annual Kennedy Center Honors.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

In a classic work on the modern presidency originally published in 1960, political scientist Richard Neustadt wrote that the American public “expects the man in...

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More Americans meet criteria for high blood pressure under new guidelines

  • Written by William Cornwell, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageUnder the new guidelines, more Americans qualify as having high blood pressure. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure – a condition called hypertension.

Hypertension is the No. 1 risk factor for heart disease and stroke. In addition, hypertension increases risk of dementia and...

Read more: More Americans meet criteria for high blood pressure under new guidelines

Nuclear in your backyard? Tiny reactors could one day power towns and campuses – but community input will be key

  • Written by Aditi Verma, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
imageFactories could one day produce and ship small nuclear reactors across the country. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

However, after...

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US touts collaborative plan to tackle Mexico’s drug cartels – but initiative is met with denial and mistrust south of the border

  • Written by Aileen Teague, Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs, Texas A&M University
imageMembers of the Mexican army drive on a road after an anti-cartel operation in Sinaloa state, Mexico, in 2023.Juan Carlos Cruz/AFP via Getty Images

A new plan to dismantle cartel-run drug-smuggling corridors along the U.S. southern border was announced by the U.S. administration in mid-August 2025 to great fanfare.

“Project Portero”...

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Sourdough and submission in the name of God: How tradwife content fuses femininity with anti-feminist ideas

  • Written by Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
imageTradwives' content, from recipes to makeup tips, often appeals to a wider audience than their views on religion, politics and gender.shironosov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

When people think about online misogyny, they probably envision forums and video game chat rooms filled with young men using lewd language, promoting sexist stereotypes and...

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How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains

  • Written by Sarah Pessin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Denver
imageMark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010.Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues – for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting,...

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A walk across Alaska’s Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data

  • Written by Alexandra Jahn, Associate Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Arctic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThe author's view walking across Arctic sea ice off Utqiagvik, Alaska, in April 2025.Alexandra Jahn

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape.

Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas and then rubble again. The snow atop it,...

Read more: A walk across Alaska’s Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data

Scams and frauds: Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies

  • Written by Rahul Telang, Professor of Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
imageScammers often direct victims to convert cash to untraceable cryptocurrency and send it to them.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Scams are nothing new – fraud has existed as long as human greed. What changes are the tools.

Scammers thrive on exploiting vulnerable, uninformed users, and they adapt to whatever technologies or trends dominate the moment....

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4 decades after the landmark book ‘Alone in a Crowd,’ women in the trades still battle bias – a professor-turned-welder reflects

  • Written by Jo Mackiewicz, Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Iowa State University

A few years ago, while working as a professor and as a welder at a small repair and fabrication shop, I went looking for books about women in the skilled trades. In the few I found, one stood out in how it made way for tradeswomen’s voices: political scientist Jean Reith Schroedel’s 1985 classic “Alone in a Crowd: Women in the...

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  1. Pneumonia vaccines for adults are now recommended starting at age 50 – a geriatrician explains the change
  2. Trump administration is threatening liberal foundations and nonprofits after Kirk’s death – but proving wrongdoing by any of them would be very hard
  3. Why Florida’s plan to end vaccine mandates will likely spread to other conservative states
  4. A cold shock to ease the burn − how brief stress can help your brain reframe a tough workout
  5. Bolsonaro conviction breaks Brazil’s record of handing impunity to coup plotters and may protect its democracy from military interference
  6. For birds, flocks promise safety – especially if you’re faster than your neighbor
  7. Fed rate cut is attempt to prevent recession without sending prices soaring
  8. Vaccine death and side effects database relies on unverified reports – and Trump officials and right-wing media are applying it out of context
  9. Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows
  10. Can violent extremists be deradicalized? I spoke with 24 former terrorists in Indonesia to find out
  11. Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life
  12. Muslim men have often been portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘fanatics’ on TV shows, but Muslim-led storytelling is trying to change that narrative
  13. Would you eat a grasshopper? In Oaxaca, it’s been a tasty tradition for thousands of years
  14. Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas
  15. Why do big oil companies invest in green energy?
  16. Harvard, like all Americans, can’t be punished by the government for speaking freely – and a federal court decision upholds decades of precedents saying so
  17. Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment
  18. Calling deaths ‘preventable’ can obscure barriers to health care access and shift blame to individuals
  19. US women narrowed the pay gap with men by having fewer kids
  20. Does anyone go to prison for federal mortgage fraud? Not many, the numbers suggest
  21. Fed, under pressure to cut rates, tries to balance labor market and inflation – while avoiding dreaded stagflation
  22. Ukraine is starting to think about memorials – a tricky task during an ongoing war
  23. How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell − it has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work
  24. 5 ways students can think about learning so that they can learn more − and how their teachers can help
  25. After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the US might seem hopelessly divided – is there any way forward?
  26. Molecular ‘fossils’ offer microscopic clues to the origins of life – but they take care to interpret
  27. Identifying as a ‘STEM person’ makes you more likely to pursue a STEM job – and caregivers may unknowingly shape kids’ self-identity
  28. Emergency alerts may not reach those who need them most in Colorado
  29. 2 shootings, 2 states, minutes apart − a trauma psychiatrist explains how exposure to shootings changes all of us
  30. The Moon is getting slightly farther away from the Earth each year − a physicist explains why
  31. Harm-reduction vending machines offer free naloxone, pregnancy tests and hygiene kits
  32. Xi’s show of unity with Putin and Kim could complicate China’s delicate diplomatic balance
  33. Even professional economists can’t escape political bias
  34. Transgender policies struggle to balance fairness with inclusion in women’s college sports
  35. What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire
  36. Solving the world’s microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsed
  37. Charlie Kirk talked with young people at universities for a reason – he wanted American education to return to traditional values
  38. How hardships and hashtags combined to fuel Nepal’s violent response to social media ban
  39. How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media and protect your peace of mind
  40. Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence
  41. Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars – an astrobiologist explains what these traces of life are, and how researchers figure out their source
  42. Parasitic worms bury themselves in the brains of moose and elk – a new test can help diagnose these animals to prevent disease spread
  43. ‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse
  44. Beauty sleep isn’t a myth – a sleep medicine expert explains how rest keeps your skin healthy and youthful
  45. Proposed cuts to NIH funding would have ripple effects on research that could hamper the US for decades
  46. Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift
  47. Fewer international students are coming to the US, costing universities and communities that benefit from these visitors
  48. Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab
  49. ‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence
  50. Detroit is the most challenging place in the country for people with asthma − here’s how to help kids in the Motor City breathe easier