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Charlie Kirk talked with young people at universities for a reason – he wanted American education to return to traditional values

  • Written by Daniel Ruggles, PhD Candidate in Politics, Brandeis University
imageCharlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, shortly before he was shot and killed. Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, at the start of a college campus tour that centered on Kirk discussing politics – and education –...

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How hardships and hashtags combined to fuel Nepal’s violent response to social media ban

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
imageRiot police fire tear gas into crowds of demonstrators in Kathmandu on Sept. 8, 2025.Prabin Ranabhat/AFP via Getty Images

Days of unrest in Nepal have resulted in the ousting of a deeply unpopular government and the deaths of at least 50 people.

The Gen Z-led protests – so-called due to the predominance of young Nepalese among the...

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How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media and protect your peace of mind

  • Written by Annie Margaret, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
imageSocial media often serves up disturbing images but you can minimize your exposure.Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images

When graphic videos go viral, like the recent fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, it can feel impossible to protect yourself from seeing things you did not consent to see. But there are steps you can take.

Social media platforms...

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Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

  • Written by Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
imagePunishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775. Interim Archives/Getty Images

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we areas Americans.&r...

Read more: Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars – an astrobiologist explains what these traces of life are, and how researchers figure out their source

  • Written by Amy J. Williams, Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Florida
imageNASA’s Perseverance rover explores Mars' Jezero Crater.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, CC BY-NC

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars’ Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from of a unique, striped rock called Chevaya Falls. The rover’s instruments then analyzed...

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Parasitic worms bury themselves in the brains of moose and elk – a new test can help diagnose these animals to prevent disease spread

  • Written by Richard Gerhold, Professor of Parasitology, University of Tennessee
imageThe difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File

A moose in Minnesota stumbles onto the road. She circles, confused and dazed, unable to orient herself or recognize the danger of an oncoming semitruck. What kills her is the impact of 13 tons of steel, but what causes...

Read more: Parasitic worms bury themselves in the brains of moose and elk – a new test can help diagnose...

‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse

  • Written by Thomas Morgan, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from the inside-out.

Darwin didn’t judge the wasps. Instead, he was troubled by what they revealed about evolution. They showed natural selection to...

Read more: ‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse

Beauty sleep isn’t a myth – a sleep medicine expert explains how rest keeps your skin healthy and youthful

  • Written by Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
imageGetting enough sleep is one of the most accessible and powerful ways to maintain healthy skin.TatyanaGl/iStock via Getty Images

Have you ever woken up after a night of poor sleep, glanced in the mirror and thought, “I look tired?”

You’re not imagining it.

I am a neurologist who specializes in sleep medicine. And though...

Read more: Beauty sleep isn’t a myth – a sleep medicine expert explains how rest keeps your skin healthy and...

Proposed cuts to NIH funding would have ripple effects on research that could hamper the US for decades

  • Written by Mohammad S. Jalali, Associate Professor, Systems Science and Policy, Harvard University
imageThe NIH is a node in an interconnected system producing health and medical advances. Anchalee Phanmaha/Moment via Getty Images

In May 2025, the White House proposed reducing the budget of the National Institutes of Health by roughly 40% – from about US$48 billion to $27 billion. Such a move would return NIH funding to levels last seen in 2007....

Read more: Proposed cuts to NIH funding would have ripple effects on research that could hamper the US for...

Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift

  • Written by Ryan Burge, Professor of Practice, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
imageStudents leave after attending a Catholic Mass at Benedictine College on Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan.AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

For decades, one of the most consistent findings in religion research has been that women tend to be more religious than men. This holds true across dozens of countries and on nearly every measure of religiosity, from how...

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  4. Detroit is the most challenging place in the country for people with asthma − here’s how to help kids in the Motor City breathe easier
  5. Who was Charlie Kirk? The activist who turned campus politics into national influence
  6. Federal subpoenas for transgender care records raise medical privacy concerns and put providers in a legal bind – a health law expert explains what’s at stake
  7. A federal program helps older people get jobs, but the Trump administration wants to get rid of it
  8. A new world order isn’t coming, it’s already here − and this is what it looks like
  9. A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
  10. How Giorgio Armani mastered the art of outfitting Hollywood stars to sell clothes to the masses
  11. How ‘South Park’ could help Democrats win back the young voters the party lost to Trump
  12. Drugged driving – including under the influence of cannabis and prescription drugs – is quietly becoming one of the most dangerous road hazards
  13. Poland responds to Russian drones incursion by invoking Article 4 of the NATO treaty − what happens next?
  14. Israeli strike in Doha crosses a new line from which relations with Gulf may not recover
  15. The discovery of a gravitational wave 10 years ago shook astrophysics – these ripples in spacetime continue to reveal dark objects in the cosmos
  16. Where does your glass come from?
  17. Sacred texts and ‘little bells’: The building blocks of Arvo Pärt’s musical masterpieces
  18. 40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn’t want to see
  19. Doctors are joining unions in a bid to improve working conditions and raise wages in a stressful health care system
  20. Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy
  21. Bail reforms across the US have shown that releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety
  22. How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard
  23. Israel’s attack in Doha underscores a stark reality for Gulf states looking for stability and growth: They remain hostage to events
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  25. What causes muscle cramps during exercise? Athletes and coaches may want to look at the playing surface
  26. We tracked every overseas trip by world leaders since the end of the Cold War – here’s what we found
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  28. Techno-utopians like Musk are treading old ground: The futurism of early 20th-century Europe
  29. Trump reversed policies supporting electric vehicles − it will affect the road to clean electricity, too
  30. Brazil’s Bolsonaro may soon join ranks of failed coup plotters held to account − hampering the chance of any political comeback
  31. How Trump’s dismissal of a Fed governor could redefine presidential power – if courts agree that he alone can interpret vague laws
  32. Trump’s radical argument that he alone can interpret vague laws fails its first court test in dismissal of Fed governor
  33. Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest Boricua community
  34. When you’re caught between ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ here’s why ‘maybe’ isn’t the way to go
  35. 50 years ago, NASA sent 2 spacecraft to search for life on Mars – the Viking missions’ findings are still discussed today
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  37. Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won’t solve America’s wildfire problem
  38. Complying with Trump administration’s attack on DEI could get employers into legal trouble
  39. George Washington’s worries are coming true
  40. Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight crime blurs the legal distinction between the police and the military
  41. Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws – new research
  42. An Arkansas group’s effort to build a white ethnostate forms part of a wider US movement inspired by white supremacy
  43. Federal judges are frustrated by defiance from the Trump administration and fuzziness from the Supreme Court
  44. Helping teens navigate online racism − study shows which parenting strategy works best
  45. 3 states push to put the Ten Commandments back in school – banking on new guidance at the Supreme Court
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