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Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes

  • Written by Marcia Zug, Professor of Family Law, University of South Carolina
imageColin Gray enters the Barrow County courthouse on Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, Ga. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

The first parents convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a mass school shooting committed by their child were Jennifer and James Crumbley. The Crumbleys were convicted in 2024, after their 15-year-old son Ethan killed four students at Oxford...

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Better urban design could help save Florida’s threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel

  • Written by Eve Bohnett, Assistant Research Scholar, Center for Landscape Conservation Planning, University of Florida
imageThe Big Cypress fox squirrel has had to adapt as its preferred habitat becomes more fragmented.LagunaticPhoto/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Florida is home to a host of diverse wildlife you can’t find anywhere else. Most people know of manatees and Florida panthers. But you might never have heard of the Big Cypress fox squirrel, a subspecies...

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Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s

  • Written by Christine Keiner, Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageA nuclear bomb explodes at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1946, one of several U.S. test explosions.Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post highlighting a radical idea: Use nuclear...

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AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains

  • Written by Gareth Barkin, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, University of Puget Sound
imageAI models derive their assumptions from English-language sources based in the United States.Weiquan Lin/Moment via Getty Images

A friend in Indonesia recently told me about a conversation he had with ChatGPT. He had typed a question in Indonesian – Bahasa Indonesia – about how to handle a difficult family dispute. The chatbot responded...

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75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did

  • Written by Jonathan Entin, Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
imageA statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns is unveiled in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence isn’t the only important anniversary in 2026. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of an extraordinary case of...

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Trump risks falling in to the ‘asymmetric resolve’ trap in Iran − just as presidents before him did elsewhere

  • Written by Charles Walldorf, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University

Little has seemingly gone as Washington planned in the war against Iran.

The Iranian people have not risen up, one hard-line leader has been replaced by another, Iranian missiles and drones keep hitting targets across the Middle East, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, driving oil and gas prices up worldwide, and in sharp contrast to Trump’s...

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Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does – and doesn’t – change about warfare

  • Written by Dennis Murphy, Ph.D. Student of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageSmoke rises in Abu Dhabi on March 1, 2026, after Iranian drone strikes around the city, including on data centers.Ryan Lim/AFP via Getty Images

Before dawn on March 1, 2026, Iranian Shahed drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates. A third commercial data center in Bahrain was hit, though it is less clear...

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The Department of Justice is suing states for sensitive voter data − an election law scholar explains why federal efforts are facing resistance

  • Written by John J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
imageThe Trump administration wants a lot of voter information from states.smartboy10/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice began sending letters to state governments demanding copies of statewide voter registration lists. The request was unprecedented: It demanded not only publicly available voter data, such...

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Why Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, won’t stop ‘til she gets enough from his estate

  • Written by Reid Kress Weisbord, Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Norma Shapiro Scholar, Rutgers University - Newark
imageParis Jackson, seen here in March 2026, has sued the executors of Michael Jackson's estate several times.Stephane Cardinale /Corbis via Getty Images

When Michael Jackson died in 2009,his fairly straightforward 5-page will left everything he owned to a family trust – an estate planning technique for giving away property that allows for...

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You’re not going to be alone in national parks this summer – enjoy the company

  • Written by Will Rice, Associate Professor of Outdoor Recreation and Wildland Management, University of Montana
imageAre there too many people here? It depends on your perspective.Michael Quinn/National Park Service

On a summer morning a couple of years ago, we went for a hike on the fabled Bright Angel Trail, one of the most popular trails in Grand Canyon National Park.

As scholars of tourism and outdoor recreation, our conversation inevitably turned to the...

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  2. Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed
  3. The NFL draft brings economic gains – and hidden public safety costs
  4. What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil
  5. Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game
  6. How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have
  7. Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition
  8. ‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts
  9. Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles
  10. How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
  11. How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets
  12. From youth bulges to graying societies: The demographic dynamics that are upending the world
  13. Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh could shake up the central bank with his ‘family fight’ model
  14. Ticks are the backyard threat southwestern Pennsylvania homeowners keep ignoring
  15. Benefits of mindfulness meditation go far beyond relaxation – here’s what it is and how to practice it
  16. Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon
  17. How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them
  18. Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
  19. NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence
  20. Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
  21. Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
  22. Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management
  23. Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth
  24. Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots
  25. We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations
  26. Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a false choice – protecting wildlife can be good for business
  27. COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know
  28. Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
  29. What Americans can learn from other civil activism movements against authoritarian regimes
  30. War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office
  31. From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to Artemis II, spaceflight captures audiences when it centers on people because human space travel is hazardous
  32. New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
  33. How a diplomatic snub evokes the complicated US-Brazil relationship in the second Trump era
  34. American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US
  35. Why do some people treat the Magic Kingdom and Disney adults like cultural abominations?
  36. Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
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  38. War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
  39. Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms
  40. Two verdicts in two days: How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children
  41. I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his immigration policies
  42. Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
  43. Millions are protesting – but boycotts might be key to changing government policies
  44. The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today
  45. Why do basketball players miss shots they’ve made a thousand times before? Neuroscience has an answer
  46. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch
  47. Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss
  48. College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them
  49. Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment – and the culprit is lab gloves
  50. Supreme Court’s tariff decision still leaves a ‘mess’ for companies trying to grab refunds