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AI’s growing appetite for power is putting Pennsylvania’s aging electricity grid to the test

  • Written by Shixiang (Woody) Zhu, Assistant Professor of Data Analytics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
imageCan the electric grid meet data center demands without increasing risks for everyone who depends on it?Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images News Collection

The rapid growth of data centers that support artificial intelligence is reshaping how electricity systems operate across the United States.

Pennsylvania is emerging as a key location in this shift,...

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Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion

  • Written by Marlo Rossi, PhD Candidate in Public Affairs & Community Development, Rutgers University–Camden, Rutgers University
imageParticipants in the annual March for Life protests in Washington call for an end to all abortions, on Jan. 23, 2026. CQ-Roll Call/Tom Williams via Getty Images

Representational government rests on a simple idea: that the laws the nation lives under generally reflect what the public wants. In the United States, few issues test that idea more than...

Read more: Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion

Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast

  • Written by Bert Johnson, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
imageHugh McTavish is running as the Independence-Alliance Party candidate for governor of Minnesota in 2026.UCG via Getty Images

A majority of Americans say they are “frustrated” or “angry” – or both – with Republicans and Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center. But that rarely translates into support for...

Read more: Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast

The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science

  • Written by Adam Meyer, PhD Candidate in Ecosystem Ecology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
imageWhen species are described as 'destructive' or 'harmful' without sufficient context, it can shape how people perceive and treat them.Beata Whitehead/Moment via Getty Images

Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and number crunchers. They are also storytellers, placing data within a broader scientific and societal context. How they...

Read more: The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science

Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fall

  • Written by Rashid Faisal, Lecturer, College of Education, University of Michigan-Dearborn
imageA view of Detroit in 1929. The city's rapid population growth led to increased health care needs. Library of Congress

Few institutions better illustrate the effects of the Great Migration on Black life in Detroit than Dunbar Memorial Hospital.

Founded in 1918, Dunbar was both a medical institution and a radical expression of racial uplift and Black...

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How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone

  • Written by Clare E. Boerigter, Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service
imageA rare prescribed fire in a wilderness area burns in the Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana in 2011.Michael A. Munoz, CC BY-NC-ND

More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these places have been...

Read more: How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone

From moral authority to risk management: How university presidents stopped speaking their minds

  • Written by Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
imageA growing number of colleges and universities have adopted policies in the last few years to remain politically neutral. kid-a/iStock / Getty Images Plus

Throughout the 20th century, college and university presidents spoke out on everything, from wars to civil rights struggles, with a sense of moral authority attempting to guide the course.

Their...

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Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios — and the research backs them up

  • Written by Anna Mayo, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon University
imageNew York nurses went on strike in January 2026, protesting unsafe staffing levels while demanding better patient safety, increased wages, improved working conditions and fairer contracts.Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Since nursing contract negotiations heated up in January 2026 at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh and at UPMC Altoona,...

Read more: Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios — and the research backs them up

Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s

  • Written by Antonios Mamalakis, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Environmental Science, University of Virginia

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?

The Earth system is a vast web of intertwined processes, from microscopic chemical reactions to towering storms. Ocean currents circulating deep in the Atlantic, forests...

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Taboo tics like shouting curses and slurs are uncommon in Tourette syndrome − but people who have them suffer harsh social stigma

  • Written by Rena Zito, Associate Professor of Sociology, Elon University
imageTourette's tics can include obscenities and slurs. These taboo words are emotionally charged and socially significant, so they tend to be more strongly encoded in the brain’s wiring.Dominic Lipinski/Stringer via Getty Images

John Davidson, whose life inspired the award-winning biopic “I Swear,” involuntarily shouted a racial slur...

Read more: Taboo tics like shouting curses and slurs are uncommon in Tourette syndrome − but people who have...

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  9. Florida’s proposed cuts to AIDS drug program threaten patient care and public health
  10. Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure
  11. Baptists have helped shape debate about religious freedom for over 400 years – up to today’s 10 Commandments laws
  12. Why standing in solidarity with immigrants is an act of accompaniment in Catholic philosophy
  13. Violent aftermath of Mexico’s ‘El Mencho’ killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits
  14. Crowdfunded generosity isn’t taxable – but IRS regulations haven’t kept up with the growth of mutual aid
  15. Picky eating starts in the womb – a nutritional neuroscientist explains how to expand your child’s palate
  16. What is Bluetooth and how does it work?
  17. How transparent policies can protect Florida school libraries amid efforts to ban books
  18. Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
  19. Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it
  20. Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with
  21. How Homeland Security’s subpoenas and databases of protesters threaten the ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide-open’ free speech protected by Supreme Court precedent
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  23. Why Stephen Colbert is right about the ‘equal time’ rule, despite warnings from the FCC
  24. As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold?
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  31. Colorado has high levels of radon, which can cause lung cancer – here’s how to lower your risk
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  33. Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works
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  38. The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself
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