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Transgender policies struggle to balance fairness with inclusion in women’s college sports

  • Written by Amanda Siegrist, Associate Professor of Recreation and Sport Management, Coastal Carolina University
imageLia Thomas, second from left, stands on the starting blocks during the 500-yard freestyle finals at the NCAA swimming and diving championships in Atlanta on March 17, 2022.Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

With two executive orders related to school sports, President Donald Trump recently tried to settle the growing legal...

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What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire

  • Written by Nina Fontana, Researcher in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
imageBlue oak woodlands in California offer beauty and opportunities to sustain traditional knowledge and ecological resilience.Nina Fontana, CC BY-NC-ND

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land,...

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Solving the world’s microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsed

  • Written by Sarah J. Morath, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University
imageMicroplastics are a growing concern in marine environments. As they break down, the particles can become microscopic.Oregon State University via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even...

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Charlie Kirk talked with young people at universities for a reason – he wanted American education to return to traditional values

  • Written by Daniel Ruggles, PhD Candidate in Politics, Brandeis University
imageCharlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, shortly before he was shot and killed. Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, at the start of a college campus tour that centered on Kirk discussing politics – and education –...

Read more: Charlie Kirk talked with young people at universities for a reason – he wanted American education...

How hardships and hashtags combined to fuel Nepal’s violent response to social media ban

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
imageRiot police fire tear gas into crowds of demonstrators in Kathmandu on Sept. 8, 2025.Prabin Ranabhat/AFP via Getty Images

Days of unrest in Nepal have resulted in the ousting of a deeply unpopular government and the deaths of at least 50 people.

The Gen Z-led protests – so-called due to the predominance of young Nepalese among the...

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How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media and protect your peace of mind

  • Written by Annie Margaret, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
imageSocial media often serves up disturbing images but you can minimize your exposure.Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images

When graphic videos go viral, like the recent fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, it can feel impossible to protect yourself from seeing things you did not consent to see. But there are steps you can take.

Social media platforms...

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Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

  • Written by Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
imagePunishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775. Interim Archives/Getty Images

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we areas Americans.&r...

Read more: Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars – an astrobiologist explains what these traces of life are, and how researchers figure out their source

  • Written by Amy J. Williams, Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Florida
imageNASA’s Perseverance rover explores Mars' Jezero Crater.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, CC BY-NC

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars’ Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from of a unique, striped rock called Chevaya Falls. The rover’s instruments then analyzed...

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Parasitic worms bury themselves in the brains of moose and elk – a new test can help diagnose these animals to prevent disease spread

  • Written by Richard Gerhold, Professor of Parasitology, University of Tennessee
imageThe difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File

A moose in Minnesota stumbles onto the road. She circles, confused and dazed, unable to orient herself or recognize the danger of an oncoming semitruck. What kills her is the impact of 13 tons of steel, but what causes...

Read more: Parasitic worms bury themselves in the brains of moose and elk – a new test can help diagnose...

‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse

  • Written by Thomas Morgan, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from the inside-out.

Darwin didn’t judge the wasps. Instead, he was troubled by what they revealed about evolution. They showed natural selection to...

Read more: ‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse

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  1. Beauty sleep isn’t a myth – a sleep medicine expert explains how rest keeps your skin healthy and youthful
  2. Proposed cuts to NIH funding would have ripple effects on research that could hamper the US for decades
  3. Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift
  4. Fewer international students are coming to the US, costing universities and communities that benefit from these visitors
  5. Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab
  6. ‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence
  7. 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
  8. Who was Charlie Kirk? The activist who turned campus politics into national influence
  9. Federal subpoenas for transgender care records raise medical privacy concerns and put providers in a legal bind – a health law expert explains what’s at stake
  10. A federal program helps older people get jobs, but the Trump administration wants to get rid of it
  11. A new world order isn’t coming, it’s already here − and this is what it looks like
  12. A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
  13. How Giorgio Armani mastered the art of outfitting Hollywood stars to sell clothes to the masses
  14. How ‘South Park’ could help Democrats win back the young voters the party lost to Trump
  15. Drugged driving – including under the influence of cannabis and prescription drugs – is quietly becoming one of the most dangerous road hazards
  16. Poland responds to Russian drones incursion by invoking Article 4 of the NATO treaty − what happens next?
  17. Israeli strike in Doha crosses a new line from which relations with Gulf may not recover
  18. The discovery of a gravitational wave 10 years ago shook astrophysics – these ripples in spacetime continue to reveal dark objects in the cosmos
  19. Where does your glass come from?
  20. Sacred texts and ‘little bells’: The building blocks of Arvo Pärt’s musical masterpieces
  21. 40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn’t want to see
  22. Doctors are joining unions in a bid to improve working conditions and raise wages in a stressful health care system
  23. Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy
  24. Bail reforms across the US have shown that releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety
  25. How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard
  26. Israel’s attack in Doha underscores a stark reality for Gulf states looking for stability and growth: They remain hostage to events
  27. New report ranks Philadelphia and Allentown among toughest cities in America for people with asthma
  28. What causes muscle cramps during exercise? Athletes and coaches may want to look at the playing surface
  29. We tracked every overseas trip by world leaders since the end of the Cold War – here’s what we found
  30. The surprising recovery of once-rare birds
  31. Techno-utopians like Musk are treading old ground: The futurism of early 20th-century Europe
  32. Trump reversed policies supporting electric vehicles − it will affect the road to clean electricity, too
  33. Brazil’s Bolsonaro may soon join ranks of failed coup plotters held to account − hampering the chance of any political comeback
  34. How Trump’s dismissal of a Fed governor could redefine presidential power – if courts agree that he alone can interpret vague laws
  35. Trump’s radical argument that he alone can interpret vague laws fails its first court test in dismissal of Fed governor
  36. Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest Boricua community
  37. When you’re caught between ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ here’s why ‘maybe’ isn’t the way to go
  38. 50 years ago, NASA sent 2 spacecraft to search for life on Mars – the Viking missions’ findings are still discussed today
  39. How is paint made?
  40. Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won’t solve America’s wildfire problem
  41. Complying with Trump administration’s attack on DEI could get employers into legal trouble
  42. George Washington’s worries are coming true
  43. Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight crime blurs the legal distinction between the police and the military
  44. Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws – new research
  45. An Arkansas group’s effort to build a white ethnostate forms part of a wider US movement inspired by white supremacy
  46. Federal judges are frustrated by defiance from the Trump administration and fuzziness from the Supreme Court
  47. Helping teens navigate online racism − study shows which parenting strategy works best
  48. 3 states push to put the Ten Commandments back in school – banking on new guidance at the Supreme Court
  49. Colorado has one of the nation’s highest suicide rates − an ER doctor explains how to bring it down
  50. When it comes to wars − from the Middle East to Ukraine − what we call them matters