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No country still uses an electoral college − except the US

  • Written by Joshua Holzer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
imageEvery four years, Congress gathers to count electoral votes.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

The United States is the only democracy in the world where a presidential candidate can get the most popular votes and still lose the election. Thanks to the Electoral College, that has happened five times in the country’s history. The most recent...

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Godzilla at 70: The monster’s warning to humanity is still urgent

  • Written by Amanda Kennell, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame
imageThe monster in the 2023 movie "Godzilla Minus One." Toho Co. Ltd., CC BY-ND

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Many of these witnesses have spent their lives warning of the dangers of nuclear war – but initially, much of the world didn’t want...

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What does Springfield, Illinois, in 1908 tell us about Springfield, Ohio, in 2024?

  • Written by Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
imageSupporters gather at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024.Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Lying about Black people is nothing new in political campaigning.

Despite the thorough debunking of false rumors that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies...

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From Swift to Springsteen to Al Jolson, candidates keep trying to use celebrities to change voters’ songs

  • Written by Matt Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science, Park University

It’s 2016 all over again. And 2020, for that matter. Democrats are staring at what looks to be another coin flip election between their party’s nominee and Donald Trump.

In an election that could come down to a few hundred thousand votes in a handful of states, every voter matters – no matter how you reach them. With that in...

Read more: From Swift to Springsteen to Al Jolson, candidates keep trying to use celebrities to change...

Trump’s musical interlude is a twist on the long tradition of candidates enlisting musicians’ support, from Al Jolson to Springsteen to Swift

  • Written by Matt Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science, Park University
imageDonald Trump dances to the song "Y.M.C.A." with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, during a town hall event in Pennsylvania on Oct. 14, 2024. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Donald Trump made liberal use of music in what’s being called a “surreal” or “bizarre” town hall meeting on Oct. 14, 2024, in...

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As OpenAI attracts billions in new investment, its goal of balancing profit with purpose is getting more challenging to pull off

  • Written by Alnoor Ebrahim, Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business, Tufts University
imageWhat's in store for OpenAI is the subject of many anonymously sourced reports.AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct. 2, 2024, it announced that it had obtained US$6.6 billion in new funding from investors and that...

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Scientists around the world report millions of new discoveries every year − but this explosive research growth wasn’t what experts predicted

  • Written by David P. Baker, Professor of Sociology, Education and Demography, Penn State
imageThe number of research studies published globally has risen exponentially in the past decades. AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file

Millions of scientific papers are published globally every year. These papers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine present discoveries that range from the mundane to the profound.

Since 1900, the numbe...

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Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns

  • Written by Zhe Li, Postdoctoral Researcher in Earth System Science, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
imageAtmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image.Bin Guan, NASA/JPL-Caltech and UCLA

Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher...

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that’s home to countless space objects

  • Written by James Wray, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageView of the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet on Sept. 30, 2024, from Monfrague National Park in Spain.Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images

The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space.

The spherical shell known as the Oort...

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Vatican synod is opening the door a bit wider for Catholic women − but they’ve been knocking for more than 100 years

  • Written by Carol E. Harrison, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
imageSister Nathalie Becquart, the first female undersecretary at the Vatican's Synod of Bishops, walks to the Vatican on May 29, 2023. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

In 2021, Sister Nathalie Becquart became the first woman to vote at any Vatican meeting when Pope Francis appointed her undersecretary to the synod, a gathering of bishops whose second...

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  1. Happiness class is helping clinically depressed school teachers become emotionally healthy − with a cheery assist from Aristotle
  2. Swing-state GOP leaders amplified election denial in 2020 − and may do so again
  3. San Francisco is suing the EPA over how specific water pollution permits should be
  4. Millions of people across the US use well water, but very few test it often enough to make sure it’s safe
  5. If you think grocery prices take a big bite out of your paycheck in the US, check out the rest of the world
  6. Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way, and it’s not just stubbornness
  7. Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way
  8. US inflation rate fell to 2.4% in September − here’s what that means for interest rates and markets
  9. Is childproofing the internet constitutional? A tech law expert draws out the issues
  10. Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage: sales pitches are often from biased sources, the choices can be overwhelming and impartial help is not equally available to all
  11. Charging, not range, is becoming a top concern for electric car drivers
  12. LGBTQ rights: Where do Harris and Trump stand?
  13. Why Trump accuses people of wrongdoing he himself committed − an explanation of projection
  14. Caitlin Clark, Christine Brennan and how racial stereotypes persist in the media’s WNBA coverage
  15. A realistic statue of Mary giving birth was criticized, then vandalized − but saints and artists have often reimagined Christ’s birth
  16. ‘Cajun Navy’ volunteers who participate in search-and-rescue operations after hurricanes are forming long-lasting organizations
  17. Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry
  18. Buyer beware: Off-brand Ozempic, Zepbound and other weight loss products carry undisclosed risks for consumers
  19. Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
  20. Blitz of political attack ads in Pennsylvania and other swing states may be doing candidates and voters more harm than good
  21. How a subfield of physics led to breakthroughs in AI – and from there to this year’s Nobel Prize
  22. Misspoke: The long and winding road to becoming a political weasel word
  23. DEA could reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive category – a drug policy expert weighs the pros and cons
  24. So you don’t like Trump or Harris – here’s why it’s still best to vote for one of them
  25. Though home to about 50 white extremist groups, Ohio’s social and political landscape is undergoing rapid racial change
  26. The woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre is finally getting her due
  27. 5 kinds of American evangelicals and their voting patterns
  28. Harris proposes that Medicare cover more in-home health care, filling a large gap for older Americans and their caregivers
  29. Nobel Prize in physics spotlights key breakthroughs in AI revolution − making machines that learn
  30. How foreign operations are manipulating social media to influence your views
  31. Trump and Harris are sharply divided on science, but share common ground on US technology policy
  32. Can Montana’s ‘last rural Democrat’ survive another election?
  33. Is it COVID-19? Flu? At-home rapid tests could help you and your doctor decide on a treatment plan
  34. Kamala Harris has spoken of her racial backgrounds − but a shared identity isn’t enough to attract supporters
  35. ‘No antidote for bad polls’: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting
  36. Why wildfires started by human activities can be more destructive and harder to contain
  37. European court ruling finds just cause to award soccer players greater freedom of movement
  38. Swing state voters along the Great Lakes love cleaner water and beaches − and candidates from both parties have long fished for support there
  39. Hurricane Milton explodes into a powerful Category 5 storm as it heads for Florida − here’s how rapid intensification works
  40. Many stable atoms have ‘magic numbers’ of protons and neutrons − 75 years ago, 2 physicists discovered their special properties
  41. MicroRNA is the Nobel-winning master regulator of the genome – researchers are learning to treat disease by harnessing how it controls genes
  42. How Hurricane Helene became a deadly disaster across six states
  43. Air pollution inside Philly’s subway is much worse than on the streets
  44. When and why do girls start forming cliques?
  45. NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s − a crewed mission could unlock some of the red planet’s geologic mysteries
  46. Why would people vote for Kamala Harris? 5 things to understand about why her supporters back her
  47. How a newspaper revolution sparked protesters and influencers, disinformation and the Civil War
  48. A year ago, the hostages were a rallying point for solidarity in Israel – now, their families are symbols of the country’s sharp divides
  49. Colleges could benefit from taking a data-driven look at hostility toward Jews on campus
  50. Palestinians want to choose their own leaders – a year of war has distanced them further from this democratic goal