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Warmer temps bring soaring tick populations – here’s how to stay safe from Lyme disease

  • Written by Lakshmi Chauhan, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageExposure to ticks can be a downside to spending time in the woods.skaman306/Moment via Getty Images

Spring’s warmer weather lures people outdoors – and into possible contact with ticks that spread Lyme disease.

Already, the 2026 tick season is booming. On April 23, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that emergency room...

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Supreme Court bolsters donors’ free speech rights in unanimous crisis pregnancy center ruling

  • Written by Wayne Unger, Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
imageState governments have had trouble regulating what crisis pregnancy centers should tell their clients and donors.AP Photo/Mark Zaleski

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for a chain of crisis pregnancy centers based in New Jersey to challenge a subpoena from New Jersey’s attorney general.

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers...

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Universities returning Native American remains and artifacts isn’t just about physical objects – it’s about dignity and justice

  • Written by Kerri J. Malloy, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University
imageA museum curator removes a rare Native American Chumash basket from California, circa 1800, at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., in 2003.MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

Many universities and museums in the U.S. have long held Native American burial artifacts, other sacred objects and even human remains.

Most of these...

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Americans care more about future generations than many think – and that gap could matter for policy

  • Written by Kyle Fiore Law, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Sustainability, Arizona State University
imageDecisions made now can affect people far into the future.Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images

Caring about future generations means believing that people who will live decades or centuries from now deserve ethical consideration. In practice, that means taking their interests into account when making all kinds of decisions across a range of...

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The US has long used economic coercion to achieve foreign policy goals — the war in Iran shows how that power has declined

  • Written by Charmaine N. Willis, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Old Dominion University
imageThe Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz has largely brought oil traffic to a halt, hitting petroleum-exporting countries hard. Asghar Besharati / Getty Images

Two months after the United States, along with Israel, launched a war against Iran, that conflict appears far from a lasting resolution.

Much commentary on the protracted nature of the...

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How much should politics influence science, and vice versa? National Science Board’s ousting resurrects an existential debate

  • Written by Caroline Wagner, Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
imageThe governing structure of the National Science Foundation partially insulated science from political control.Evgeny Gromov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump,” read 22 emails sent from the White House Presidential Personnel Office on Friday afternoon, April 24, 2026, “I am writing to inform you...

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Supreme Court considers how much states can protect consumers when federal agencies won’t

  • Written by Sarah J. Morath, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University
imageAs of April 2026, the U.S. government has not required a warning label on Roundup weed killer.AP Photo/Haven Daley

Chemical giant Monsanto has argued for years that if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approves a pesticide label without requiring a cancer warning, states cannot hold its manufacturer liable in court for failing to warn...

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Supreme Court geofencing case weighs constitutionality of digital dragnets – and how far your rights go in the data Big Tech collects on you

  • Written by Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
imagePolice got cellphone data for many people who happened to be in this area near the time of a bank robbery.AP Photo/Steve Helber

Google tracks the vast majority of cellphones in the United States, collecting your location, usage and device data through installed software and apps. The tracking occurs by various autonomous processes you cannot see or...

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Supreme Court considers whether police can use Big Tech data to capture info from all cellphone users in a place and time

  • Written by Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
imagePolice got cellphone data for many people who happened to be in this area near the time of a bank robbery.AP Photo/Steve Helber

Google tracks the vast majority of cellphones in the United States, collecting your location, usage and device data through installed software and apps. The tracking occurs by various autonomous processes you cannot see or...

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Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling makes it harder to protect minority voting power and alters the landscape of future elections

  • Written by Sam D. Hayes, Assistant professor of politics and policy, Simmons University
imagePresident Lyndon Johnson hands a pen to civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the signing of the Voting Rights Act in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6, 1965. Hulton Archive, Washington Bureau/Getty Images

In a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29,...

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  2. Can the nearly $1 trillion-a-year US military really be depleting key weapons in Iran?
  3. What courage is, how to build it and why you should take a risk
  4. Reclassification of marijuana opens doors for much-needed medical research into the benefits and risks of the drug
  5. Stockings once worn by Philly’s wealthiest man show the value of women’s mending in early America
  6. Thousands of employed Colorado workers need SNAP benefits to make ends meet
  7. Trump’s Medicaid fraud crackdown may sound sensible, but it could harm Americans who require long-term care
  8. The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating ‘sacrifice zones’ that harm water and health of world’s poor
  9. UAE’s OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignment
  10. Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks
  11. More than 140,000 Americans die from COPD each year – here’s why survival depends on more than avoiding smoking
  12. Wearable glucose monitors offer real-time data, but for healthy people no guidelines exist to interpret the numbers
  13. How the concept of ‘medical freedom’ is reshaping the military’s decades-long stance on the flu vaccine mandate − and endangering troops’ readiness
  14. Reading gains in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana are often touted, but don’t show full picture of literacy
  15. Tapping your genome with AI and quantum computing could deliver on the promise of personalized medicine – but practical and ethical hurdles remain
  16. Your local storm forecast is likely based on weather miles away – we’re trying to bring it closer to home
  17. Why is water wet?
  18. Potential signs of life on distant planets sound exciting – but confirmation can take years
  19. Perseverance doesn’t always pay off for companies – sometimes it’s better to ‘fail fast’
  20. Texas proposes Bible readings for K-12 students, reigniting century-old legal battle over their place in public schools
  21. Donkeys are a symbol of endurance for Palestinians – they are also a target of settler violence and care
  22. America’s founding promise of religious freedom has long coexisted with prejudice, even as many Christians have worked to confront it
  23. Older Americans who vote live longer than those who don’t – new research
  24. Sora’s downfall signals broader problems with AI’s creative utility
  25. Latest attack threatening President Trump reflects rising political violence in US
  26. What to know about sex trafficking as Pittsburgh hosts the NFL draft
  27. Justice Department’s effort to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans could face widespread judicial pushback
  28. What the Declaration of Independence does – and doesn’t – say about God
  29. Meloni and Trump’s cooling relationship marks the failure of an EU-MAGA middle ground
  30. ‘Just war’ has guided Catholic thinking on conflict for centuries – including criticism of Iran war
  31. Boom in cremation hides surprising truths about what Americans really want when they die
  32. You probably wouldn’t notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses
  33. What is black garlic? How heat and humidity turn a pungent ingredient mild and slightly sweet
  34. ‘Affordable’ Pittsburgh doesn’t have enough affordable housing – here’s why
  35. China surpasses US in research spending – the consequences extend far beyond scientific ranking and clout
  36. Trump administration’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoing
  37. Why the Southeast is burning – extreme drought is only part of the reason
  38. Why the Southeast is burning – extreme drought is only part of the cause
  39. Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ brings hasty decisions with long-lasting implications, outside of its usual careful deliberation
  40. School gardens help students learn science and connect with agriculture – but making them happen isn’t easy
  41. The new brain break app for Philadelphia students raises questions about more screen time
  42. Many churches, synagogues and mosques are built around families – and they’re struggling to respond to rising singles
  43. New reading textbooks, same problem: Why children’s reading scores in the US aren’t rising
  44. What we lose when artificial intelligence does our shopping
  45. If Justice Alito resigns before the midterms, a Trump nominee to the Supreme Court is likely to sail through confirmation
  46. Extreme rain on snow is testing aging dams across Michigan and Wisconsin – this is the future in a warming world
  47. Heavy rain on snow is testing aging dams across Michigan and Wisconsin – this is the future in a warming world
  48. Sorry, Tampa Bay, mixed-use districts don’t reverse the dismal economics of sports venues
  49. Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster
  50. What a Muslim folk trickster can teach us about the danger of holding a single worldview