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Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game

  • Written by Jane Charlton, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
imageA screenshot from the ‘University of Mars' video game shows a galaxy flight. Jane Charlton , CC BY

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what potion or scroll to use to tame dozens of...

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How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have

  • Written by Rhonda Winegar, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington
imageThe financial costs of cancer screening and treatment can make accessing care feel impossible.Thai Noipho/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Cancer is becoming increasingly common among young people, with cases slowly and steadily rising every year for the past decade. And what type of insurance adolescents and young adults have affects at what stage of...

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Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition

  • Written by Craig Fehrman, Adjunct instructor at the Media School, Indiana University
imageThe Artemis II crew will include Victor Glover, second from left, the first Black astronaut to fly to the Moon. NASA/Frank Michaux

In April 2026, four astronauts are scheduled to fly around the Moon. As part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, they will become the first humans to do so in half a century. One crew member, pilot Victor Glover, will...

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‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts

  • Written by Deana L. Weibel, Professor of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University
imageRyland Grace, the 'Project Hail Mary' protagonist, exhibits intellectual humility while problem-solving to save the Earth. Amazon MGM Studios

Early in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science fiction blockbuster “Project Hail Mary,” middle school teacher Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, is tasked by an international...

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Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles

  • Written by Shannon Fogg, Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
imageFurniture confiscated from Jewish homes is delivered to other people in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in April 1942, after an Allied bombing.Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images

In 1945, an angry mob confronted Aba Mizreh and four of his sons outside their former home in Paris. The Jewish family had hidden in Lyon during World War II, only to learn...

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How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner

  • Written by Ann E. Carlson, Professor of Environmental Law, University of California, Los Angeles
imageBefore catalytic converters, starting a gas-powered vehicle could choke the surrounding area with smog.Bettmann via Getty Images

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s than...

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How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets

  • Written by Parker Bach, PhD Student in Media and Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
imageAt their best, prediction markets aggregate collective intelligence to weigh the likelihood of future events.Fairfax Media/Getty Images

Though prediction markets have been legal in the U.S. for less than 18 months, they can’t stop making news and making money.

On prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, users can stake real money on...

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From youth bulges to graying societies: The demographic dynamics that are upending the world

  • Written by John Rennie Short, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imagePopulation trends are driving change.Alexander Spatari/Getty Images

Government-shaking protests in Bangladesh, Iran, Nepal and Sri Lanka – to name a few – have all in recent years been linked to what demographers call a “youth bulge.” Meanwhile, the economic slowdown in China and ballooning public debtin the United States ar...

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Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh could shake up the central bank with his ‘family fight’ model

  • Written by Simon Bowmaker, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Economics, New York University
imageKevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's nominee to helm the Fed, is expected to change the way the central bank operates. AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Since President Donald Trump named Kevin Warsh as his choice for Federal Reserve chair on Jan. 30, 2026, financial markets have focused on one question: Is he still the inflation hawk he once was, or is he...

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Ticks are the backyard threat southwestern Pennsylvania homeowners keep ignoring

  • Written by Danielle Tufts, Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh
imagePennsylvania consistently ranks among the top three states in the country for reported Lyme disease cases each year.Ladislav Kubeš/istock via Getty Images Plus

As spring unfolds, new research highlights an issue for southwestern Pennsylvania residents: Most people know ticks are in their backyard, but few believe they’re actually at...

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  2. Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon
  3. How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them
  4. Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
  5. NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence
  6. Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
  7. Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
  8. Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management
  9. Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth
  10. Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots
  11. We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations
  12. Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a false choice – protecting wildlife can be good for business
  13. COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know
  14. Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
  15. What Americans can learn from other civil activism movements against authoritarian regimes
  16. War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office
  17. From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to Artemis II, spaceflight captures audiences when it centers on people because human space travel is hazardous
  18. New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
  19. How a diplomatic snub evokes the complicated US-Brazil relationship in the second Trump era
  20. American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US
  21. Why do some people treat the Magic Kingdom and Disney adults like cultural abominations?
  22. Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
  23. Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
  24. War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
  25. Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms
  26. Two verdicts in two days: How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children
  27. I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his immigration policies
  28. Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
  29. Millions are protesting – but boycotts might be key to changing government policies
  30. The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today
  31. Why do basketball players miss shots they’ve made a thousand times before? Neuroscience has an answer
  32. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch
  33. Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss
  34. College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them
  35. Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment – and the culprit is lab gloves
  36. Supreme Court’s tariff decision still leaves a ‘mess’ for companies trying to grab refunds
  37. Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy
  38. 2026’s historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West
  39. What the historic snow drought means for water, wildfires and the future of the West
  40. On Passover, some Sephardic Jews revisit not only the story of their ancestors, but also their Ladino language
  41. Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research
  42. New federal student loan limits affect social work graduate students, with impacts for survivors of domestic violence in Colorado and elsewhere
  43. Food aid doesn’t make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs
  44. A connection to nature fuels well-being worldwide, according to a study of 38,000 people
  45. Anthrax-causing bacteria have dwelled in soil for centuries – cycling through people, animals and earth
  46. Pittsburgh’s post-steel economy is a success – and a warning for other cities
  47. If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
  48. How far can Iran’s ballistic missiles reach? A defense expert explains how the missiles work, and what Iran can and can’t hit
  49. Growing up during Sri Lanka’s civil war taught me that getting along with people across divides is a virtue we can learn
  50. What an ancient devotional text means for the women of Nepal