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The beach wasn’t always a vacation destination - for the ancient Greeks, it was a scary place

  • Written by Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Tufts University
imageIxia Beach, located on the northwestern coast of the Greek island of Rhodes, is a popular destination.Norbert Nagel via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Many of us are heading to the beach to bask in the sun and unwind as part of our summer vacations. Research has shown that spending time at the beach can provide immense relaxation for many people....

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Which wildfire smoke plumes are hazardous? New satellite tech can map them in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale

  • Written by Jun Wang, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
imageSmoke from Canadian wildfires prompted air quality alerts in Chicago as it blanketed the city on June 5, 2025.Scott Olson/Getty Images

Canada is facing another dangerous wildfire season, with burning forests sending smoke plumes across the provinces and into the U.S. again. The pace of the 2025 fires is reminiscent of the record-breaking 2023...

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Is that wildfire smoke plume hazardous? New satellite tech can map smoke plumes in 3D for better air quality alerts at neighborhood scale

  • Written by Jun Wang, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
imageSmoke from Canadian wildfires prompted air quality alerts in Chicago as it blanketed the city on June 5, 2025.Scott Olson/Getty Images

Canada is facing another dangerous wildfire season, with burning forests sending smoke plumes across the provinces and into the U.S. again. The pace of the 2025 fires is reminiscent of the record-breaking 2023...

Read more: Is that wildfire smoke plume hazardous? New satellite tech can map smoke plumes in 3D for better...

Neanderthals likely ate fermented meat with a side of maggots

  • Written by Melanie Beasley, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
imageBlack soldier fly maggots can feed on decomposing animals. Melanie M. Beasley

Scientists long thought that Neanderthals were avid meat eaters. Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed like they’d been feasting on as much meat as apex predators such as lions and hyenas. But as a group, hominins – that’s...

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The 3 worst things you can say after a pet dies, and what to say instead

  • Written by Brian N. Chin, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trinity College
imageLoss of a pet falls into what researchers call disenfranchised grief in which the pain is often minimized or discounted.Claudia Luna/iStock via Getty Images Plus

I saw it firsthand after my cat Murphy died earlier this year. She’d been diagnosed with cancer just weeks before.

She was a small gray tabby with delicate paws who, even during...

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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

  • Written by Leslie Root, Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder
imageUnfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future.gremlin/E+ via Getty Images

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S.

As birth rates decline in the U.S. and throughout the world, voices from Silicon Valley to the White House are...

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Trump’s push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with ‘guest worker’ visas

  • Written by Scott Morgenstern, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
imageMexican farmworkers with H-2A visas weed a North Carolina tobacco field in 2016.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture.

It can import more people to pick crops and do other kinds of agricultural labor, it can raise wages enough to lure more U.S. citizens and immigrants with legal...

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Deportation tactics from 4 US presidents have done little to reduce the undocumented immigrant population

  • Written by Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
imageImmigration and Customs Enforcement agents escort a detained immigrant into an elevator on June 17, 2025, in New York.AP Photo/Olga Fedorova

All modern U.S. presidents, both Republican and Democratic, have attempted to reduce the population of millions of undocumented immigrants. But their various strategies have not had significant results, with...

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How bachata rose from Dominican Republic’s brothels and shantytowns to become a global sensation

  • Written by Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College, CUNY
imageOnce viewed by elites with disdain, bachata has become popular worldwide.Erika Santelices/AFP via Getty Images

What began as songs about heartbreak in the brothels and barrios of the Dominican Republic in the 1960s has become a worldwide sensation.

Even the Bee Gees have gotten a bachata spin. Prince Royce’s bilingual take on the 1977 hit...

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Columbia’s $200M deal with Trump administration sets a precedent for other universities to bend to the government’s will

  • Written by Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
imageStudents at Columbia University in New York City on April 14, 2025. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Columbia University agreed on July 23, 2025, to pay a US$200 million fine to the federal government and to settle allegations that it did not create a safe environment for Jewish students during Palestinian rights protests in 2024.

The deal...

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  1. We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas – satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones
  2. Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America
  3. Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
  4. As Mexico’s LGBTQ+ community battles for inclusion, two drag performers have become internet stars – with more than 2 million TikTok followers
  5. Why do MAGA faithful support Trump if his ‘big beautiful bill’ will likely hurt many of them?
  6. Yellowstone has been a ‘sacred wonderland’ of spiritual power and religious activity for centuries – and for different faith groups
  7. Immigration courts hiding the names of ICE lawyers goes against centuries of precedent and legal ethics requiring transparency in courts
  8. Caution in the C-suite: How business leaders are navigating Trump 2.0
  9. How germy is the public pool? An infectious disease expert weighs in on poop, pee and perspiration – and the deceptive smell of chlorine
  10. 2 ways cities can beat the heat: Which is best, urban trees or cool roofs?
  11. Urban trees vs. cool roofs: What’s the best way for cities to beat the heat?
  12. Understanding the violence against Alawites and Druze in Syria after Assad
  13. Binary star systems are complex astronomical objects − a new AI approach could pin down their properties quickly
  14. I teach college and report on Colorado media — there should be more professors doing the same in other states
  15. Trump has fired the head of the Library of Congress, but the 225-year-old institution remains a ‘library for all’ – so far
  16. How the nature of environmental law is changing in defense of the planet and the climate
  17. Beijing’s ‘plausible deniability’ on arms supply is quickly becoming implausible – and could soon extend to Iran
  18. Imaginary athletes: Creating make-believe teammates, competitors and coaches during play
  19. Bangladesh sees small glimmers of economic hope a year after longtime autocrat ousted in people’s revolt
  20. One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
  21. What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens
  22. Generative AI is coming to the workplace, so I designed a business technology class with AI baked in
  23. Methane leaks from gas pipelines are a hidden source of widespread air pollution
  24. Emil Bove’s appeals court nomination echoes earlier controversies, but with a key difference
  25. PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy
  26. Dogs are helping people regulate stress even more than expected, research shows
  27. Amid fragile ceasefire, violence in southern Syria brings Druze communities’ complex cross-border ties to the fore
  28. How mothers supporting mothers can help fill the health care worker shortage gap and other barriers to care
  29. Microbes in deep-sea volcanoes can help scientists learn about early life on Earth, or even life beyond our planet
  30. Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky
  31. ‘Democratizing space’ is more than just adding new players – it comes with questions around sustainability and sovereignty
  32. Filipino sailors dock in Mexico … and help invent tequila?
  33. Why is heart cancer so rare? A biologist explains
  34. How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out
  35. How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters
  36. How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will deepen the racial wealth gap – a law scholar explains how it reduces poor families’ ability to afford food and health care
  37. ‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
  38. Leaders in India, Hungary and the US are using appeals to nostalgia and nationalism to attack higher education
  39. Florida plan to deputize National Guard officers as immigration judges at Alligator Alcatraz would likely violate constitutional rights
  40. About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research
  41. Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
  42. Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today
  43. Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism
  44. Why male corporate leaders and billionaires may need financial therapy more than anyone
  45. Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI
  46. When grief involves trauma − a social worker explains how to support survivors of the recent floods and other devastating losses
  47. Supreme Court news coverage has talked a lot more about politics ever since the 2016 death of Scalia and GOP blocking of Obama’s proposed nominee
  48. Children living near oil and gas wells face higher risk of rare leukemia, studies show
  49. Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate studies?
  50. Philly’s City Council turned down a new rental inspection program − studies show that might harm tenants’ health