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Why chromium is considered an essential nutrient, despite having no proven health benefits

  • Written by Neil Marsh, Professor of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
imageYou're more likely to get chromium from your cookware than from your food.Fausto Favetta Photoghrapher/Moment via Getty Images

You might best know chromium as a bright, shiny metal used in bathroom and kitchen fittings. But is it also essential for your health?

In a form known as trivalent chromium, this metal is included in multivitamin pills and...

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Trump’s Gaza peace plan: A bit of the old, a bit of the new – and the same stumbling blocks

  • Written by Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
imageU.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a joint news conference at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025. Alex Wong/Getty Images

The latest U.S.-sponsored peace plan for the Middle East was unveiled at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025, and immediately accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The...

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Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water

  • Written by Elizabeth Blum, Professor of Environmental History, Troy University
imageEnvironmental Protection Agency staff and contractors are often involved in large cleanups of toxic waste, such as after the Los Angeles fires of early 2025.Mario Tama/Getty Images

As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping...

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How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

  • Written by Sally Jane Brown, Curator, West Virginia University
imageDo the seemingly endless doorways represent a woman trapped in domesticity or infinite ways out?Philadelphia Museum of Art

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement.

Surrealism is an avant-garde art...

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Ending taxes on home sales would benefit the wealthiest households most – part of a larger pattern in Trump tax plans

  • Written by Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University

Not long after U.S. housing prices reached a record high this summer – the median existing home went for US$435,000 in June – President Donald Trump said that he was considering a plan to make home sales tax-free.

Supporters of the idea, introduced by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the No Tax on Home Sales Act in July, say it would...

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A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied

  • Written by Ted Powers, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis
imageThe Rapa Nui people are mostly invisible in the origin story of rapamycin.Posnov/Moment via Getty Images

An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this “miracle drug” has completely left out the people and politics that made its discovery possible.

N...

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How to identify animal tracks, burrows and other signs of wildlife in your neighborhood

  • Written by Steven Sullivan, Director of the Hefner Museum of Natural History, Miami University
imageA paw print in baked mud at Joshua Tree National Park, likely from a coyote.Brad Sutton/National Park Service

Your neighborhood is home to all sorts of amazing animals, from racoons, squirrels and skunks to birds, bugs and snails. Even if you don’t see them, most of these creatures are leaving evidence of their activities all around you.

Paw...

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A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement

  • Written by Susanna Ashton, Professor of English, Clemson University
imageA monument to survival and perseverance has survived, by happenstance, to share its stories today. Courtesy of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) at Old Salem

From the ages of 12 to about 22, Harriet Jacobs lived under the watch of her enslaver, a wealthy physician named James Norcom Sr. During that decade, as Jacobs grew from a...

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Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić clings to power – but protests highlight the danger of stubborn leadership

  • Written by Keith Brown, Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

In Serbia, there is a word for a form of stubbornness that sees someone act out of spite or defiance rather than yield to the will of others: “inat.”

It’s something Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is showing remarkable levels of right now.

For almost a year, anti-government protests have roiled the Balkan nation. They...

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  2. Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift
  3. Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr
  4. How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economy
  5. Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox
  6. Calling in the animal drug detectives − helping veterinarians help beluga whales, goats and all creatures big and small
  7. Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous ‘forever chemical’ out of waterways
  8. A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change
  9. Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict – in fact, it may have caused more ripples
  10. Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism
  11. What parents need to know about Tylenol, autism and the difference between finding a link and finding a cause in scientific research
  12. Even a brief government shutdown might hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  13. Even a government shutdown that ends quickly would hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  14. Religion often shapes someone’s view of abortion – but what about a woman’s actual decision?
  15. 4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI
  16. The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply – and how to resist
  17. Personal scandals sink CEOs faster than financial fraud, research shows
  18. Why you seriously need to stop trying to be funny at work
  19. Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it’s business more than politics
  20. Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people
  21. Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help
  22. How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
  23. NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations
  24. Trump isn’t cutting Pell Grants, after all − but other changes could complicate financial aid for some students
  25. How a devastating grape pest is reshaping vineyards across Colorado’s Western Slope
  26. 2 newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun, both from up close and afar
  27. 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
  28. Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests
  29. From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance
  30. Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’
  31. Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood
  32. What happens when AI comes to the cotton fields
  33. Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques
  34. Title IX’s effectiveness in addressing campus sexual assault is at risk − a law professor explains why
  35. Biosphere 2’s latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable
  36. Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s
  37. Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation
  38. Mindfulness won’t burn calories, but it might help you stick with your health goals
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
  42. A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream
  43. Why can’t we feel the Earth moving?
  44. A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
  45. How Squishmallow collecting helped me cope with grief, make new enemies and find ‘villains’ worth studying
  46. TikTok sale puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the For You Page works and what changes are in store
  47. Vaccine mandates misinformation: 2 experts explain the true role of slavery and racism in the history of public health policy – and the growing threat ignorance poses today
  48. How Philly anarcho-punks blended music, noise and social justice in the 1990s and 2000s
  49. Why are there so many protests? The US public is highly polarized, and that drives people to act
  50. Why Jimmy Kimmel’s First Amendment rights weren’t violated – but ABC’s would be protected if it stood up to the FCC and Trump