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Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and more anticompetitive than ever

  • Written by Matthew Jordan, Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
imageWarner Bros. was one of five studios that joined forces with Wall Street investors to gobble up independent theaters and movie producers in the 1920s.Nextrecord Archives/Getty Images

News of Netflix’s bid to buy Warner Bros. last week sent shock waves through the media ecosystem.

The pending US$83 billion deal is being described as an...

Read more: Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and...

Sleep problems and depression can be a vicious cycle, especially during pregnancy − here’s why it’s important to get help

  • Written by Jenalee Doom, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
imageRestless or too little sleep can make us feel unfocused and indecisive the next day.Valerii Apetroaiei/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Imagine you got a rough night of sleep. Perhaps you went to bed too late, needed to wake up early or still felt tired when you woke up from what should have been a full night’s sleep.

For the rest of the day, you...

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Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

  • Written by Theodore J. Kury, Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
imageData centers need lots of power – but how much, exactly?alacatr/iStock/Getty Images Plus

The amount of electricity data centers use in the U.S. in the coming years is expected to be significant. But regular reports of proposals for new ones and cancellations of planned ones mean that it’s difficult to know exactly how many data centers...

Read more: Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

  • Written by Amirali Aghazadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageMany carbon-rich meteorites contain ingredients commonly found in life, but no evidence of life itself. James St. John, CC BY

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.

Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of...

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How a niche Catholic approach to infertility treatment became a new talking point for MAHA conservatives

  • Written by Emma Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University
image'Restorative reproductive medicine' has become a buzzword in some conservative circles, among people morally opposed to in vitro fertilizationJose Luis Pelaez Inc/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Along the 2024 presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to make in vitro fertilization, or IVF, free – part of his party’s wider push...

Read more: How a niche Catholic approach to infertility treatment became a new talking point for MAHA...

Donor-advised funds have more money than ever – and direct more of it to politically active charities

  • Written by Brian Mittendorf, Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University
imageUsing investment accounts for charitable gifts could be influencing giving in unexpected ways.sesame/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

Charitable giving in the United States has changed significantly in recent years.

Two of the biggest changes are the swift growth of donor-advised funds and the increasingly blurred lines between charity and...

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How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age

  • Written by Sean Cho Ayres, Assistant Professor of English - AI Writing, Kennesaw State University
imageGenerative AI looms widely in higher education. Can focusing on social interactions prepare students well for an AI-infused workplace?Fuse via Getty Images

It’s week one of the semester, the first day of class: 20 students, mostly freshmen, sit silently waiting for our English 101 Writing Composition class to begin. Most have one AirPod in...

Read more: How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age

Sharks and rays get a major win with new international trade limits for 70+ species

  • Written by Gareth J. Fraser, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Florida
imageWatching a whale shark swim at the Georgia Aquarium.Zac Wolf/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The world’s oceans are home to an exquisite variety of sharks and rays, from the largest fishes in the sea – the majestic whale shark and manta rays – to the luminescent but rarely seen deep-water lantern shark and guitarfishes.

The oceans were...

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Trump administration replaces America 250 quarters honoring abolition and women’s suffrage with Mayflower and Gettysburg designs

  • Written by Seth T. Kannarr, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, University of Tennessee
imageCoins convey important messages about what it means to be an American; the White House knows this.Max Zolotukhin, iStock/Getty Images Plus

The culture wars have arrived at the U.S. Mint.

Commemorative coins aimed at celebrating America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 were unveiled by the mint on Dec. 10, 2025, and they reflect the country’s...

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A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs are high

  • Written by Jennifer C. Greenfield, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Denver
imageGuaranteed income programs have grown in popularity in the U.S. as costs of living continue to rise.Glowimages/GettyImages Plus

In Colorado, full-time workers need to earn an hourly wage of at least $36.79 to afford $2,000 in monthly rent, which is below the federal fair market rate for a Denver-area two-bedroom unit.

More than 87% of low-income...

Read more: A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs are high

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  2. Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US seizure – starving Maduro of much-needed revenue
  3. As a former federal judge, I’m concerned by a year of challenges to the US justice system
  4. Songbirds swap colorful plumage genes across species lines among their evolutionary neighbors
  5. The Ivies can weather the Trump administration’s research cuts – it’s the nation’s public universities that have the most to lose
  6. Polytechnic universities focus on practical, career-oriented skills, offering an alternative to traditional universities
  7. AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving
  8. AI’s errors may be impossible to eliminate – what that means for its use in health care
  9. How one Florida program reduced preterm births – and how it could serve as a model for other communities
  10. Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerous
  11. The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction
  12. Tariffs 101: What they are, who pays them, and why they matter now
  13. Time banks could ease the burden of elder care and promote connection
  14. Hanukkah celebrates both an ancient military victory and a miracle of light – modern Jews can pick from either tradition
  15. ‘Are you married?’ Why doctors ask invasive questions during treatment
  16. From FIFA to the LA Clippers, carbon offset scandals are exposing the gap between sports teams’ green promises and reality
  17. 2026’s abortion battles will be fought more in courthouses and FDA offices than at the voting booth
  18. Trump administration’s immigrant detention policy broadly rejected by federal judges
  19. Doulas play essential roles in reproductive health care – and more states are beginning to recognize it
  20. From early cars to generative AI, new technologies create demand for specialized materials
  21. Germany’s plan to deport Syrian refugees echoes 1980s effort to repatriate Turkish guest workers
  22. New industry standards and tech advances make pre-owned electronics a viable holiday gift option
  23. Exposure to neighborhood violence leads some Denver teens to use tobacco and alcohol earlier, new study shows
  24. Newly discovered link between traumatic brain injury in children and epigenetic changes could help personalize treatment for recovering kids
  25. US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s ‘pro-petroleum’ moves
  26. Sabrina Carpenter’s and Chappell Roan’s sexy pop hits have roots in the bedroom ballads of Teddy Pendergrass and Philly soul
  27. 6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong
  28. Young, undocumented immigrants are finding it increasingly hard to attend college as South Carolina and other states restrict in-state tuition or ban them altogether
  29. Outside the West, the Kundalini tradition presents a model of the ‘divine feminine’ beyond binary gender
  30. Pope Leo XIV’s visits to Turkey and Lebanon were about religious diplomacy
  31. How crime in Brazil drags down the economy and heaps economic pain on the nation’s poor
  32. You care about fairness at work – so why do you feel like a fake?
  33. Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs
  34. PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study finds
  35. Health insurance premiums rose nearly 3x the rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years
  36. Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews
  37. Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?
  38. How keeping down borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans is built into the Fed’s ‘dual mandate’
  39. Netflix-Warner deal would drive streaming market further down the road of ‘Big 3’ domination
  40. What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a ‘life well lived’
  41. Florida’s new reporting system is shining a light on human trafficking in the Sunshine State
  42. What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find out
  43. The law meets its limits – what ‘Nuremberg’ reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice
  44. Why can’t I wiggle my toes one at a time, like my fingers?
  45. Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?
  46. From evil to upheaval and beyond: How the ‘axis’ metaphor shaped modern geopolitics
  47. Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase
  48. Vaccine committee votes to scrap universal hepatitis B shots for newborns despite outcry from children’s health experts
  49. 3 states are challenging precedent against posting the Ten Commandments in public schools – cases that could land back at the Supreme Court
  50. A culinary educator and local dining expert breaks down Michelin’s debut Philly list − and gives zero stars to the inspectors