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Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen

  • Written by Menika Dirkson, Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University
imageA SEPTA train moves along the Market-Frankford Line in West Philadelphia.AP Photo/Matt Rourke

On April 13, 1967, around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Larkin of the Philadelphia Police Department’s subway unit visited the Philadelphia High School for Girls to interview the school’s librarian, 61-year-old Miriam S. Axelrod.

Axelrod had written a...

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What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools

  • Written by Justin Reich, Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
imageTeachers need to be scientists themselves, experimenting and measuring the impact of powerful AI products on education. Hyoung Chang via Getty Images

American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be...

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As an OB-GYN, I see firsthand how misleading statements on acetaminophen leave expectant parents confused, fearful and lacking in options

  • Written by Tami S. Rowen, Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Gynecologic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
imageAbout 20% of patients report experiencing a fever during pregnancy.John Fedele/Tetra images via Getty Images Plus

When President Donald Trump adamantly proclaimed in a press conference on Sept. 22, 2025, that pregnant women should not take Tylenol, I immediately thought about my own experiences during my second labor. While pushing for nearly three...

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Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research

  • Written by Celeste Kidd, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
imageHow do kids figure out how to sort things by order?Celeste Kidd

I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It’s a chaotic – but functional – solution to the problem.

Children have a penchant for unconventional thinking...

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Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

  • Written by Dipangkar Dutta, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Mississippi State University
imageScientists imagine virtual particles popping in and out of existence to explain how forces transfer between particles. koto_feja/iStock via Getty Images

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained...

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Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why

  • Written by Ryan Summers, Associate Professor of Science Education, University of North Dakota
imageNSF is one federal agency that funds a wide range of basic science research.Nicole Fuller/National Science Foundation, CC BY

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work.

In the 19th century, for example, Charles Darwin made an expensive voyage to the southernmost tip of the Americas, visiting many other places en...

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History is repeating itself at the FBI as agents resist a director’s political agenda

  • Written by Douglas M. Charles, Professor of History, Penn State
imageFBI Director Kash Patel is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Three converging events in the 1970s – the Watergate scandal, the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War and revelations that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had abused his power to...

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Florida’s 1,100 natural springs are under threat – a geographer explains how to restore them

  • Written by Christopher F. Meindl, Associate Professor of Geography, University of South Florida
imageGilchrist Blue Springs, located about 20 miles northwest of Gainesville, Fla., is a popular recreation site known for the clarity of its water.Christopher Meindl, CC BY

“Behold … a vast circular expanse before you, the waters of which are so extremely clear as to be absolutely diaphanous or transparent as the ether.”

Naturalist Wi...

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Cuba’s leaders see their options dim amid blackouts and a shrinking economy

  • Written by Joseph J. Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Global Studies, Appalachian State University
imageCubans gather amid a blackout in Havana on Sept. 10, 2025.Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

The lights went out in Cuba again.

For the fifth time in a year, all of Cuba plunged into darkness on Sept. 10, 2025. Even critical emergency services like hospitals suffered during the nearly 24-hour power outage.

That’s because Cuba’s power grid is...

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US economy is already on the edge – a prolonged government shutdown could send it tumbling over

  • Written by John W. Diamond, Director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, Rice University
imageIt's a long way down.IAISI/Moment via Getty Images

The economic consequences of the current federal government shutdown hinge critically on how long it lasts. If it is resolved quickly, the costs will be small, but if it drags on, it could send the U.S. economy into a tailspin.

That’s because the economy is already in a precarious state, with...

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  1. Supreme Court to decide if Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy violates free speech
  2. Supreme Court opens with cases on voting rights, tariffs, gender identity and campaign finance to test the limits of a constitutional revolution
  3. Moral panics intensify social divisions and can lead to political violence
  4. Shutdowns are as American as apple pie − in the UK and elsewhere, they just aren’t baked into the process
  5. Where George Washington would disagree with Pete Hegseth about fitness for command and what makes a warrior
  6. Breastfeeding is ideal for child and parent health but challenging for most families – a pediatrician explains how to find support
  7. Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment
  8. How VR and AI could help the next generation grow kinder and more connected
  9. Venezuela and US edge toward war footing − but domestic concerns, international risks may hold Washington back
  10. Trump scraps the nation’s most comprehensive food insecurity report − making it harder to know how many Americans struggle to get enough food
  11. Why Major League Baseball keeps coming back to Japan
  12. Why a quick compromise to the first government shutdown in nearly 7 years seems unlikely
  13. Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human
  14. Many book bans could be judging titles mainly by their covers
  15. Violent acts in houses of worship are rare but deadly – here’s what the data shows
  16. Flood-prone Houston faces hard choices for handling too much water
  17. Conventional anti-corruption tools often fail to address root causes – but loss of US leadership could still spell trouble for efforts abroad
  18. Many US states are rethinking how students use cellphones − but digital tech still has a place in the classroom
  19. From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Dracula,’ exploring the dark world of death and the undead offers a reminder of our mortality
  20. Cellphones in schools – more states are taking action to reduce student distraction without eliminating tech access
  21. Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor
  22. McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity
  23. ‘Whisper networks’ don’t work as well online as off − here’s why women are better able to look out for each other in person
  24. ‘Warrior ethos’ mistakes military might for true security − and ignores the wisdom of Eisenhower
  25. Arab American students and parents see US schools very differently − political tensions are widening the gap
  26. Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pushed it away from ‘Mormon’ – a word that has courted controversy for 200 years
  27. Why chromium is considered an essential nutrient, despite having no proven health benefits
  28. Trump’s Gaza peace plan: A bit of the old, a bit of the new – and the same stumbling blocks
  29. Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water
  30. How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism
  31. Ending taxes on home sales would benefit the wealthiest households most – part of a larger pattern in Trump tax plans
  32. Who invented the light bulb?
  33. A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
  34. How to identify animal tracks, burrows and other signs of wildlife in your neighborhood
  35. A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement
  36. Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić clings to power – but protests highlight the danger of stubborn leadership
  37. Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions
  38. Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift
  39. Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr
  40. How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economy
  41. Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox
  42. Calling in the animal drug detectives − helping veterinarians help beluga whales, goats and all creatures big and small
  43. Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous ‘forever chemical’ out of waterways
  44. A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change
  45. Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict – in fact, it may have caused more ripples
  46. Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism
  47. What parents need to know about Tylenol, autism and the difference between finding a link and finding a cause in scientific research
  48. Even a brief government shutdown might hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  49. Even a government shutdown that ends quickly would hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  50. Religion often shapes someone’s view of abortion – but what about a woman’s actual decision?