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American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US

  • Written by Candace Lukasik, Assistant Professor of Religion, Mississippi State University
imageCoptic Easter liturgy, East Brunswick, N.J., April 2017.Candace Lukasik, CC BY-SA

Two months ago, Terez Metry arrived at a Department of Homeland Security office in Nashville with her husband, a U.S. citizen, expecting a routine step in beginning her green card application. The couple had prepared documents for a Form I-130 petition and anticipated...

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Why do some people treat the Magic Kingdom and Disney adults like cultural abominations?

  • Written by Adam Kadlac, Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest University
imagePeople railing against the phoniness of Disney World may be putting on a show of their own.Ian Langsdon/AFP via Getty Images

If you’ve ever expressed even a passing desire to visit Walt Disney World, you may have had friends who raised their eyebrows, groaned or even sneered.

The heart of their criticism isn’t just that they think Disney...

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Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter

  • Written by Mireya Mayor, Director of Exploration and Science Communication, Florida International University
imageBirute Galdikas carries an orangutan named Isabel in Borneo, Indonesia. The 2011 film 'Born To Be Wild 3D' followed her work.AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah

Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than...

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Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter

  • Written by Mireya Mayor, Director of Exploration and Science Communication, Florida International University
imageBirute Galdikas carries an orangutan named Isabel in Borneo, Indonesia. The 2011 film 'Born To Be Wild 3D' followed her work.AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah

Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than...

Read more: Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story

  • Written by Ezgi Canpolat, Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
imageSaudi Arabia has built large solar power plants while continuing to invest heavily in fossil fuels.Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images

The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas flow –...

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Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms

  • Written by Jess Reia, Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia
imageA small, black license plate recognition camera is mounted on a light pole in Boulder, Colo.Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images

For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States.

Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for surveillance.

In thousands of towns and cities across...

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Two verdicts in two days: How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children

  • Written by Carolina Rossini, Professor of Practice and Director for Program, Public Interest Technology Initiative, UMass Amherst
imageJudge Bryan Biedscheid of New Mexico could order significant changes to how Instagram and Facebook operate.Nathan Burton/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, Pool

Within 48 hours, the legal landscape governing social media and children shifted in ways that will take years to fully understand and verify.

On March 24, 2026, a Santa Fe jury ordered Meta to pay...

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I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his immigration policies

  • Written by Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
imageAttendees wearing MAGA merch stand next to an image of Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, on March 25, 2026.Leandro Lozada AFP/Getty Images

There is a pall over the Make America Great Again, or MAGA, movement. Donald Trump overpromised. His public support has fallen. Some “America First” die-hards...

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Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how

  • Written by Jacob A Tennessen, Research Scientist in Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University
image_Anopheles darlingi_, a key carrier of malaria, is rapidly evolving resistance to insecticides.Romuald Carinci and Pascal Gaborit/Duchemin lab/Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, CC BY-SA

The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted...

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Millions are protesting – but boycotts might be key to changing government policies

  • Written by Lisa Schirch, Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
imageThe 'No Kings' protests have drawn millions of Americans and may grow even larger.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

The organizers of the estimated 3,000 “No Kings” protests, rallies and other events planned for March 28, 2026, say they expect that the protests will be the largest such mass mobilization in U.S. history.

As scholars...

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  2. Why do basketball players miss shots they’ve made a thousand times before? Neuroscience has an answer
  3. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch
  4. Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss
  5. College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them
  6. Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment – and the culprit is lab gloves
  7. Supreme Court’s tariff decision still leaves a ‘mess’ for companies trying to grab refunds
  8. Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy
  9. 2026’s historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West
  10. What the historic snow drought means for water, wildfires and the future of the West
  11. On Passover, some Sephardic Jews revisit not only the story of their ancestors, but also their Ladino language
  12. Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research
  13. New federal student loan limits affect social work graduate students, with impacts for survivors of domestic violence in Colorado and elsewhere
  14. Food aid doesn’t make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs
  15. A connection to nature fuels well-being worldwide, according to a study of 38,000 people
  16. Anthrax-causing bacteria have dwelled in soil for centuries – cycling through people, animals and earth
  17. Pittsburgh’s post-steel economy is a success – and a warning for other cities
  18. If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
  19. How far can Iran’s ballistic missiles reach? A defense expert explains how the missiles work, and what Iran can and can’t hit
  20. Growing up during Sri Lanka’s civil war taught me that getting along with people across divides is a virtue we can learn
  21. What an ancient devotional text means for the women of Nepal
  22. Drones paired with AI could help search-and-rescue teams find missing persons faster
  23. 60 years of fiber optics: How a carrier of light you can’t see underlies much of the modern world
  24. ‘Vas Madness’ shows the power of messaging on men’s contraceptive decisions
  25. Irrational decision or helpful evolutionary adaptation? A philosopher on the rationality wars behind ‘nudge’ policy
  26. How the National Security Council typically functions to plan and fully assess risks when presidents consider going to war
  27. Is it ‘Ih-ran’ or ‘E-ron’? Inside the politics of pronunciation
  28. Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly
  29. The world’s great fish migrations are collapsing – that’s a problem for millions of people
  30. Psychological toll of betrayal trauma may help explain why women kept silent for decades after alleged abuse by civil rights icon Cesar Chavez
  31. Over 400 million barrels will be added to the oil market soon – what are strategic reserves and what can they do?
  32. Can you survive inside a tornado? This scientist did by accident – he’s lucky to be alive
  33. For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers’ expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame
  34. Immigrant kids can attend school regardless of citizenship – some states are challenging this standard
  35. Trump’s ‘Venezuela solution’ to Cuba would see the island nation returned to a client state
  36. The ever-evolving Latino vote is rapidly shifting away from Trump and Republicans
  37. Why many older adults skip hard candy – how aging can change chewing and swallowing
  38. How dolphins communicate – new discoveries from a long-term study in Sarasota, Florida
  39. What Betsy Ross’ real story tells us about women’s work in the Revolution − and why it still matters 250 years later
  40. 50 years ago, Karen Quinlan’s coma sparked the movement for patients’ rights near the end of life
  41. A web of sensors: How the US spots missiles and drones from Iran
  42. In the Easter story, women are the first to proclaim the resurrection – but churches today are still divided over female preachers
  43. Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine for the war in Iran were ignored
  44. How AI English and human English differ – and how to decide when to use artificial language
  45. ‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth
  46. Federal judge temporarily blocks RFK Jr.’s vaccine agenda – an epidemiologist answers questions parents may have
  47. HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ nails how hospital cyberattacks create chaos, endanger patients and disrupt critical care
  48. Why Colorado River negotiations stalled, and how they could resume with the possibility of agreement
  49. Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict is rooted in local border dispute – but the risks extend across the region
  50. Israeli action in Lebanon risks repeating history’s mistakes — and torpedoing a historic moment for dialogue