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Who shops at farmers markets in the US?

  • Written by Bret R. Shaw, Professor of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison

People who shop at the more than 8,700 farmers markets operating in the U.S. either year-round or seasonally generally fall into six distinct groups. Three of them are more interested in farmers markets than the others. I study local food systems as a strategic communications scholar, and that’s the main takeaway from a study that I...

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A ‘super El Niño?’ Why it’s too early to forecast one with certainty, but not too soon to prepare

  • Written by Pedro DiNezio, Associate Research Professor in Climate Modeling, University of Colorado Boulder
imageEl Niño can mean a rainy U.S. Southwest, warmer winters in the North and less Atlantic hurricane activity – but not always. Bill Tompkins/Getty Images

Talk of a “super El Niño” developing in 2026 is gaining momentum, with concerns rising that this climate pattern could bring extreme rainfall, heat, drought and...

Read more: A ‘super El Niño?’ Why it’s too early to forecast one with certainty, but not too soon to prepare

How much is a bat worth? Protecting these tiny insect-eaters isn’t just good for farms – their deaths cost taxpayers and the wider economy

  • Written by Dale Manning, Associate Professor in Public Policy and Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
imageA healthy bat hangs in a cave, resting up to eat its weight in bugs at dusk.Liz Hamrick/TVA

Most Americans tend to think about bats only around Halloween, but the U.S. economy benefits from these furry flying mammals every day.

Bats pollinate plants, including many important food crops, when they stop by flowers to drink nectar. Their guano is mined...

Read more: How much is a bat worth? Protecting these tiny insect-eaters isn’t just good for farms – their...

Why a growing number of Trump supporters are experiencing voter’s remorse

  • Written by Tatishe Nteta, Provost Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst
imagePhoenix residents watch presidential candidate Donald Trump speak at the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2024.AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

In recent months, some prominent conservatives and erstwhile allies of President Donald Trump – former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and journalist Megyn Kelly, for example – have voiced...

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Astrophysicists use ‘space archaeology’ to trace the history of a spiral galaxy

  • Written by Lisa Kewley, Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Smithsonian Institution
imageThis artist's impression shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1365 colliding and merging with a smaller galaxy. Melissa Weiss/CfA

Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small companion galaxies, slowly building up the bright central region and sweeping spiral arms we see today.

In a...

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Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask

  • Written by Marco A. Janssen, Professor of Sustainability, Arizona State University
imageEarth draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby.NASA

There’s a new space race to the Moon, and this time the ambitions are not just to visit but to stay. NASA’s Artemis program aims to establish a long-term human presence on the lunar surface in the 2030s. China,...

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TikTok’s popular microdramas shrink TV into bite-sized chunks

  • Written by Jessica Maddox, Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Georgia
imageActress and writer Issa Rae speaks at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York in 2024. Her new microdrama, 'Screen Time,' has already garnered over 100 million views. Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company

Some of the hottest casting calls in Hollywood right now aren’t for Netflix, Disney or HBO.

They’re for TikTok.

In...

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Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’

  • Written by Ryan Leack, Assistant Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageAn ancient disk shows the priestess Enheduanna, third figure from the right, during a ritual.Mefman00/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated question: What is writing?

And can artificial intelligence really do it?

Many people think of “writing” as...

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How Trump plans to keep tariffs at the center of his economic policy despite stinging court losses

  • Written by Kent Jones, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Babson College
imagePresident Donald Trump remains committed to using tariffs as a key tool for leverage and is looking at another authority that might raise tariff rates substantially.AP Photo/Noah Berger

President Donald Trump just can’t quit tariffs.

He suffered a major defeat when the Supreme Court ruled in February 2026 against the sweeping emergency...

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed about the American Revolution’s meaning even as they lay dying

  • Written by Marianne Holdzkom, Professor of History, Kennesaw State University
imageThe men responsible for producing the Declaration of Independence, known as the Committee of Five, were, left to right: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, John Adams and Robert R. Livingston.Vintage etching circa late 19th century, digital restoration by Pictore via Getty Images

Like Americans today, the people living in the United...

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  10. Suspending federal gas tax wouldn’t save drivers as much as they might hope – here’s what goes into the price of a gallon of gas
  11. Many of the Caribbean’s most important reefs are going unprotected
  12. You can change your emotions – but it’s a 2-step process that takes some effort
  13. How America’s independence from England revolutionized US philanthropy
  14. Why Kevin Warsh might still prove to be an independent Federal Reserve chair
  15. A deep-ocean climate plan wins rare EPA approval, but is sinking plants in the sea the answer?
  16. The Cherokee Bible, one of the language’s first books, is a window between worldviews
  17. Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story
  18. Button-pushing explorers: How to grasp that AI agents can do amazing things while knowing nothing
  19. Trump-Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China’ moment – that they are talking is enough for now
  20. Why political gerrymandering in the South will likely continue to consider voters’ race despite Supreme Court ruling
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  22. What makes a good teacher? Ask a Republican and a Democrat, and they are likely to agree
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  25. The missing link in America’s critical minerals push isn’t mining – it’s processing expertise
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