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How the Ukrainians – with no navy – defeated Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

  • Written by Brian Glyn Williams, Professor of Islamic History, UMass Dartmouth
imageA view of the Russian warship Moskva just before it sank April 15, 2022.Blake Spendley/OSINTtechnical on X

Since the Russian invasion began in 2022, Ukraine has successfully resisted its opponents on many fronts, but its most surprising success came in a theater where few expected Ukraine to prevail: the Black Sea.

In 2022, the consensus among...

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Affordable housing in God’s backyard: Some religious congregations find a new use for their space

  • Written by Nadia A. Mian, Senior Program Director and Lecturer, Rutgers University
imageThe Arlington Presbyterian Church in Arlington, Va., seen in 2015, developed an affordable housing project on its property. Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Faced with declining membership, aging buildings and large, underutilized properties, many U.S. houses of worship have closed their doors in recent years. Presbyterian...

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Age would prevent Trump and Biden from running many top companies − and for good reason

  • Written by Brandon Cline, Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
imageThe former president was 78 when he became the Republican Party's nominee for a third time.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, is 78. No one older has ever run for U.S. president as their party’s official nominee. That was also true in 2020, when Trump lost to President Joe Biden.

Biden was...

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Why I turned the ‘Red Dead Redemption II’ video game into a history class on America’s violent past

  • Written by Tore Olsson, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee
imageThe video game 'Red Dead Redemption II' has sold over 64 million copies. Can it be used to teach history, too?MTStock Studio via Getty Imagesimage

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Red Dead’s History: Exploring America’s Violent Past Through...

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Sports in extreme heat: How high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of practice, and the warning signs of heat illness

  • Written by Samantha Scarneo-Miller, Assistance Professor of Athletic Training, West Virginia University
imageThe first two weeks of practice are hardest as the body acclimatizes.Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

High school sports teams start practices soon in what has been an extremely hot summer in much of the country. Now, before they hit the field, is the time for athletes to start slowly and safely building up strength and...

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Fewer bees and other pollinating insects lead to shrinking crops

  • Written by Rachel Mallinger, Professor of Entomology, University of Florida
imageInsects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in the U.S., due in part to pesticides, climate...

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Cutting marketing spending often backfires on businesses – new research could help investors distinguish shortsighted cuts from smart ones

  • Written by Andre Martin, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame

Businesses are often tempted to cut their marketing budgets for the short-term savings it provides – but those cuts can cause problems in the long term. A new study my colleague Tarun Kushwahaand I published in The Journal of Marketing proposes a method for predicting whether these counterproductive cuts will take place up to a year in...

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Sports in extreme heat: Warning signs of heat illness and how high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of team practices

  • Written by Samantha Scarneo-Miller, Assistance Professor of Athletic Training, West Virginia University
imageThe first two weeks of practice are hardest as the body acclimatizes.Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

High school sports teams start practices soon in what has been an extremely hot summer in much of the country. Now, before they hit the field, is the time for athletes to start slowly and safely building up strength and...

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Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling

  • Written by Ziyad Al-Aly, Chief of Research and Development, VA St. Louis Health Care System. Clinical Epidemiologist, Washington University in St. Louis
imageResearchers are gaining key insights into the ways that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can lead to long COVID symptoms.Catherine McQueen/Moment via Getty Images

Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of...

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Voting rights at risk after Supreme Court makes it harder to challenge racial gerrymandering

  • Written by Sam D. Hayes, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law, Trinity College
imageTaiwan Scott, who sued South Carolina over a new congressional map he said curbed Black voting power, speaking outside the Supreme Court in 2023. Shannon Finney/Getty Images for Rooted Logistics

Two recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional redistricting will have starkly different consequences for Black voters in the 2024 election.

One ruling...

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  2. Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’ is just the latest action plan from a group with an over 50-year history of steering GOP lawmaking
  3. Late bedtimes and not enough sleep can harm developing brains – and poorer kids are more at risk
  4. Republicans wary of Republicans – how politics became a clue about infection risk during the pandemic
  5. Pennsylvania continues tradition as ‘keystone state’ in presidential elections
  6. What the Catholic Church says about political violence and the need to forgive – even would-be assassins
  7. ‘MAGA BLACK’ hats, clear swag bags, the first Trump/Vance signs: Highlights of what the Smithsonian is archiving from the Republican convention
  8. Baby bull sharks are thriving in Texas and Alabama bays as the Gulf of Mexico warms
  9. How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist, more-sexist past
  10. AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
  11. Supreme Court’s blow to federal agencies’ power will likely weaken abortion rights – 3 issues to watch
  12. The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery
  13. A short history of the rise, fall and return of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station
  14. Stroke survivors may be saddled with an invisible disability known as spatial neglect – but a simple treatment offers significant improvement
  15. Want to spur your child’s intellectual development? Use audiobooks instead of videos
  16. The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
  17. America faces a power disconnection crisis amid dangerous heat: In 27 states, utilities can shut off electricity for nonpayment even in a heat wave
  18. Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
  19. Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
  20. Target just became the latest US retailer to stop accepting payment by checks. Why have so many stores given up on them?
  21. Trump-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s classified document case is unconstitutional – here’s how special counsels have been authorized before
  22. How to protect your home from wildfires – here’s what fire prevention experts say is most important
  23. New research suggests estrogen and progesterone could play role in opioid addiction and relapse
  24. Trump’s assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  25. Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  26. Electing a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
  27. Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
  28. How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap
  29. Could people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
  30. Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
  31. Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited
  32. ‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
  33. Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public
  34. Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged
  35. As nativist politics surge across Europe, soccer’s ‘Euros’ showcase a more benign form of nationalism
  36. Immigrant moms feel unsafe and unheard when seeking pregnancy care – here’s how they’d improve Philly’s health care system
  37. Meteorites from Mars help scientists understand the red planet’s interior
  38. Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
  39. Odds are that gambling on the Biden/Trump competition will further reduce the presidential campaign to a horse race
  40. Will a market crash one day be pinned on the Supreme Court? An accounting expert explains why recent rulings have him worried
  41. Abortion restrictions harm mental health, with low-income women hardest hit
  42. Trump’s raised fist - how one gesture can be used by Republicans, socialists, fascists, white supremacists and Black athletes
  43. AI supercharges data center energy use – straining the grid and slowing sustainability efforts
  44. Storytelling strategies make communication about science more compelling
  45. Trump’s raised fist is a go-to gesture with a long history of different meanings
  46. What do storm chasers really do? Two tornado scientists take us inside the chase and tools for studying twisters
  47. Why is Congress filled with old people?
  48. How political party platforms – like the Republicans’ Trump-inspired one for 2024 – can help voters understand American politics
  49. A new ‘Twisters’ movie is coming – two tornado scientists take us inside the world of real storm chasing
  50. The science behind Ariana Grande’s vocal metamorphosis