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What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the ground beneath our feet, as a soil scientist explains

  • Written by Brian Darby, Associate Professor of Biology, University of North Dakota
imageDig into soil and you'll find rock dust but also thousands of living species.ChristinLola/iStock/Getty Images Plusimage

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 dirt? – Belle and Ryatt, ages 7 and 5, Keystone, South Dakota

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Gary, Indiana’s lawsuit against gunmakers is shot down by a new law, after surviving 25 years of appeals

  • Written by Timothy D. Lytton, Regents' Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
imageIndianapolis hosted the National Rifle Association's national convention in 2023.AP Photo/Darron Cummings

After 25 years of legal wrangling, a lawsuit described as “the most consequential legal case against the gun industry in this country” appears to have met its end – but the industry isn’t out of the legal woods just yet.

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Excessively high rents are a major burden for immigrants in US cities

  • Written by Madhuri Sharma, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
imageNashville is one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities and increasingly a destination for immigrants.Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Rents across the U.S. have climbed to staggering levels in recent years. Millions of renters spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities, a situation that housing experts...

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Israel’s ‘Iron Wall’: A brief history of the ideology guiding Benjamin Netanyahu

  • Written by Eran Kaplan, Rhoda and Richard Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
imageA view of Khan Yunis in Gaza on Feb. 2, 2024, after weeks of continuous Israeli bombardment and bulldozing. Abdulqader Sabbah/Anadolu via Getty Images

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that Israel’s military will soon launch an invasion of Rafah, the city in the southern Gaza Strip. More than 1 million Palestinians, now on the ve...

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Fighting every wildfire ensures the big fires are more extreme, and may harm forests’ ability to adapt to climate change

  • Written by Mark Kreider, Ph.D. Candidate in Forest and Conservation Science, University of Montana
imageExtreme fires leave forests struggling to recover in a warming world. Mark Kreider

In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires has had unintended consequences.

Fires are a natural part of many landscapes...

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Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s what that could mean for your garden

  • Written by Matt Kasson, Associate Professor of Mycology and Plant Pathology, West Virginia University
imageClimate change complicates plant choices and care. Early flowering and late freezes can kill flowers like these magnolia blossoms.Matt Kasson, CC BY-ND

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed...

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Jon Stewart, still a ‘tiny, neurotic man,’ back to remind Americans what’s at stake

  • Written by Dannagal G. Young, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Delaware
imageJon Stewart does a segment on Feb. 13, 2024, on the Biden-Trump rematch.Screenshot, The Daily Show

It’s an uncomfortable truth: Jon Stewart and Donald Trump both tapped the same well of latent public disaffection with politics and the media in the 2000s. Trust in media and government had been declining for several decades. But the symbiotic...

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EPA’s new auto emissions standard will speed the transition to cleaner cars, while also addressing consumer and industry concerns

  • Written by Alan Jenn, Associate Professional Researcher in Transportation, University of California, Davis
imageCharging bays at the Electrify America indoor electric vehicle charging station in San Francisco.AP Photo/Eric Risberg

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released strict new emissions limits on March 20, 2024, for cars built from 2027 through 2032. The final rule for Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards caps a process that started almost a...

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Generative AI could leave users holding the bag for copyright violations

  • Written by Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
imageHow can users of AI tools like OpenAI's Sora video generator be sure they aren't producing copyright-violating content?Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images

Generative artificial intelligence has been hailed for its potential to transform creativity, and especially by lowering the barriers to content creation. While the creative potential of generative...

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  2. Breakaway parties threaten to disrupt South Korea’s two-party system – can they also end parliamentary gridlock?
  3. Even presidents need a touch of madness − in March
  4. Purim’s original queen: How studying the Book of Esther as fan fiction can teach us about the roots of an unruly Jewish festival
  5. For centuries, owls were considered to bring bad luck in many cultures as well as in the US, but the outpouring of grief in New York over Flaco shows how times have changed
  6. Why are Americans fighting over no-fault divorce? Maybe they can’t agree what marriage is for
  7. James Clavell’s ‘Shōgun’ is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers
  8. Legislative inaction and dissatisfaction with one-party control lead to more issues going directly to voters in ballot initiatives, with 60% of them in six states
  9. How safe are your solar eclipse glasses? Cheap fakes from online marketplaces pose a threat, supply-chain experts say
  10. New studies suggest millions with mild cognitive impairment go undiagnosed, often until it’s too late
  11. California is wrestling with electricity prices – here’s how to design a system that covers the cost of fixing the grid while keeping prices fair
  12. What Article 23 means for the future of Hong Kong and its once vibrant pro-democracy movement
  13. ‘He just vanished’ − missing activists highlight Tajikistan’s disturbing use of enforced disappearances
  14. A century ago, one state tried to close religious schools − a far cry from today, with controversial plans in place for the nation’s first faith-based charter school
  15. Biden cannot easily make Roe v. Wade federal law, but he could still make it easier to get an abortion
  16. 40 years ago, the Supreme Court broke the NCAA’s lock on TV revenue, reshaping college sports to this day
  17. Nixon declared Americans deserved to know ‘whether their president is a crook’ – Trump says the opposite
  18. AI can help predict whether a patient will respond to specific tuberculosis treatments, paving way for personalized care
  19. Chilling out rather than blowing off steam is a better way to manage anger − new review of 154 studies reveals what works
  20. What are microcredentials? And are they worth having?
  21. Are you one of the millions about to have cataract surgery? Here’s what ophthalmologists say you need to know
  22. Trump judgments: What’s an appeal bond? What happens if he can’t get a $454 million loan?
  23. Texas immigration law in legal limbo, with intensifying fight between Texas and the US government over securing the Mexico border
  24. Pro-Israel but anti-Netanyahu: Democratic Party leaders try to find the middle ground
  25. Haiti is in crisis, but foreign intervention comes with an ugly past
  26. US democracy’s unaddressed flaws undermine Biden’s stand as democracy’s defender − but Trump keeps favoring political violence
  27. Building fairness into AI is crucial – and hard to get right
  28. How much stress is too much? A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help
  29. What the Buddhist text Therigatha teaches about women’s enlightenment
  30. $50K per year for a degree in a low-wage industry − is culinary school worth it?
  31. How ghost streams and redlining’s legacy lead to unfairness in flood risk, in Detroit and elsewhere
  32. Female mosquitoes rely on one another to choose the best breeding sites − and with the arrival of spring, they’re already on the hunt
  33. Supreme Court’s questions about First Amendment cases show support for ‘free trade in ideas’
  34. Donor-advised funds: US regulators are scrambling to catch up with the boom in these charitable giving accounts
  35. Profits over patients: For-profit nursing home chains are draining resources from care while shifting huge sums to owners’ pockets
  36. As the US government and record labels go after TikTok, musicians get the squeeze
  37. AI vs. elections: 4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics
  38. How do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight
  39. Amid growth in AI writing tools, this course teaches future lawyers and other professionals to become better editors
  40. Children experience more injuries, stress and even burnout when they specialize in one sport
  41. Free school meals for all may reduce childhood obesity, while easing financial and logistical burdens for families and schools
  42. Biden and Trump, though old, are both likely to survive to the end of the next president’s term, demographers explain
  43. Why Fani Willis was allowed to stay on as prosecutor of criminal case against Trump in Georgia – and what happens next
  44. Is TikTok’s parent company an agent of the Chinese state? In China Inc., it’s a little more complicated
  45. ‘Gross negligence’: why a parent like James Crumbley can be found guilty for their child’s crimes
  46. How ‘Dune’ became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement − and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology
  47. Trump wouldn’t be the first presidential candidate to campaign from a prison cell
  48. What is the ‘great replacement theory’? A scholar of race relations explains
  49. Pacemaker powered by light eliminates need for batteries and allows the heart to function more naturally − new research
  50. Did Biden really steal the election? Students learn how to debunk conspiracy theories in this course