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How does your immune system stay balanced? A Nobel Prize-winning answer

  • Written by Aimee Pugh Bernard, Associate Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageRegulatory T cells (red) interact with other immune cells (blue) and modulate immune responses.National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH via Flickr

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells. This...

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What are solar storms and the solar wind? 3 astrophysicists explain how particles coming from the Sun interact with Earth

  • Written by Yeimy J. Rivera, Researcher in Astrophysics, Smithsonian Institution
imageThe Sun occasionally ejects large amounts of energy and particles that can smash into Earth.NASA/GSFC/SDO via WikimediaCommons

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

What is meant by solar storm and solar wind? – Nihal, age...

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Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre

  • Written by Alex Volonte, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Journalism, University of Florida
imageAs traditional media outlets struggle to hold power to account, citizen watchdogs can still make a splash.Man_Half-tube/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

In September 2025, podcaster Pablo Torre published an investigation alleging that the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers may have used a side deal to skirt the league’s strict salary cap...

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A fragmented legal system and threat of deportation are pushing higher education out of reach for many undocumented students

  • Written by Vanessa Delgado, Professor of Sociology, Washington State University
imageStudents protest at Arizona State University in January 2025 against a Republican student group encouraging students to report their peers to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press

The Trump administration is upending norms and policies across the American educational system. One of the many groups...

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Conflict at the drugstore: When pharmacists’ and patients’ values collide

  • Written by Elizabeth Chiarello, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
imagePharmacists see themselves as vital gatekeepers – but at times, some critics treat them as physicians' sidekicks.Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment via Getty Images

Imagine walking into your pharmacy, handing over your prescription and having it denied. Now imagine that the reason is not insufficient insurance coverage or the wrong dose, but a...

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How to conduct post-atrocity research – key insights from practitioners in the field

  • Written by Christopher P. Davey, Lecturer in Political Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageRuhango, Rwanda – the site of massacres during the 1994 genocide.Nicole Fox, CC BY-SA

From Gaza to Myanmar and Sudan, communities around the globe continue to suffer the consequences of war, civil strife and sectarian violence. Indeed in 2024, 111 countries experienced some form of mass atrocity against civilians.

While it is crucial to...

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Hamas has run out of options – survival now rests on accepting Trump’s plan and political reform

  • Written by Mkhaimar Abusada, Visiting Scholar of Global Affairs, Northwestern University
imageSmoke billows following an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Oct. 2, 2025.Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images

Weakened militarily and facing declining Palestinian support, particularly among Gazans, Hamas was already a shadow of the militant group it once was. And then came President Donald Trump’s peace plan.

On Oct. 3, 2025, Hamas said that it a...

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How the government shutdown is hitting the health care system – and what the battle over ACA subsidies means

  • Written by Simon F. Haeder, Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
imageDemocrats demanded that Republicans negotiate with them on ACA subsidies and Medicaid cuts. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images News

Major rifts over key health care issues are at the heart of the federal government shutdown that began at the stroke of midnight on Oct. 1, 2025.

This is not the first time political arguments over health care policy have...

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Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen

  • Written by Menika Dirkson, Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University
imageA SEPTA train moves along the Market-Frankford Line in West Philadelphia.AP Photo/Matt Rourke

On April 13, 1967, around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Larkin of the Philadelphia Police Department’s subway unit visited the Philadelphia High School for Girls to interview the school’s librarian, 61-year-old Miriam S. Axelrod.

Axelrod had written a...

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What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools

  • Written by Justin Reich, Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
imageTeachers need to be scientists themselves, experimenting and measuring the impact of powerful AI products on education. Hyoung Chang via Getty Images

American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be...

Read more: What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools

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  1. As an OB-GYN, I see firsthand how misleading statements on acetaminophen leave expectant parents confused, fearful and lacking in options
  2. Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research
  3. Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality
  4. Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why
  5. History is repeating itself at the FBI as agents resist a director’s political agenda
  6. Florida’s 1,100 natural springs are under threat – a geographer explains how to restore them
  7. Cuba’s leaders see their options dim amid blackouts and a shrinking economy
  8. US economy is already on the edge – a prolonged government shutdown could send it tumbling over
  9. Supreme Court to decide if Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy violates free speech
  10. Supreme Court opens with cases on voting rights, tariffs, gender identity and campaign finance to test the limits of a constitutional revolution
  11. Moral panics intensify social divisions and can lead to political violence
  12. Shutdowns are as American as apple pie − in the UK and elsewhere, they just aren’t baked into the process
  13. Where George Washington would disagree with Pete Hegseth about fitness for command and what makes a warrior
  14. Breastfeeding is ideal for child and parent health but challenging for most families – a pediatrician explains how to find support
  15. Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment
  16. How VR and AI could help the next generation grow kinder and more connected
  17. Venezuela and US edge toward war footing − but domestic concerns, international risks may hold Washington back
  18. Trump scraps the nation’s most comprehensive food insecurity report − making it harder to know how many Americans struggle to get enough food
  19. Why Major League Baseball keeps coming back to Japan
  20. Why a quick compromise to the first government shutdown in nearly 7 years seems unlikely
  21. Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human
  22. Many book bans could be judging titles mainly by their covers
  23. Violent acts in houses of worship are rare but deadly – here’s what the data shows
  24. Flood-prone Houston faces hard choices for handling too much water
  25. Conventional anti-corruption tools often fail to address root causes – but loss of US leadership could still spell trouble for efforts abroad
  26. Many US states are rethinking how students use cellphones − but digital tech still has a place in the classroom
  27. From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Dracula,’ exploring the dark world of death and the undead offers a reminder of our mortality
  28. Cellphones in schools – more states are taking action to reduce student distraction without eliminating tech access
  29. Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor
  30. McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity
  31. ‘Whisper networks’ don’t work as well online as off − here’s why women are better able to look out for each other in person
  32. ‘Warrior ethos’ mistakes military might for true security − and ignores the wisdom of Eisenhower
  33. Arab American students and parents see US schools very differently − political tensions are widening the gap
  34. Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pushed it away from ‘Mormon’ – a word that has courted controversy for 200 years
  35. Why chromium is considered an essential nutrient, despite having no proven health benefits
  36. Trump’s Gaza peace plan: A bit of the old, a bit of the new – and the same stumbling blocks
  37. 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
  38. How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism
  39. Ending taxes on home sales would benefit the wealthiest households most – part of a larger pattern in Trump tax plans
  40. Who invented the light bulb?
  41. A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
  42. How to identify animal tracks, burrows and other signs of wildlife in your neighborhood
  43. A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement
  44. Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić clings to power – but protests highlight the danger of stubborn leadership
  45. Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions
  46. Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift
  47. Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr
  48. How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economy
  49. Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox
  50. Calling in the animal drug detectives − helping veterinarians help beluga whales, goats and all creatures big and small