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Cuba’s speedboat shootout recalls long history of exile groups engaged in covert ops aimed at regime change

  • Written by William M. LeoGrande, Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
imageCuban coast guard ships docked at the port of Havana on Feb. 25, 2026.Adalberto Roque/ AFP via Getty Images

A boat carrying 10 heavily armed men entered Cuban territorial waters on Feb. 25, 2026, intent, according to officials in Havana, on infiltrating the island nation and undermining the communist government through acts of sabotage and...

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Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment

  • Written by Anna Chorniy, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Humane Studies
imageThe United States is one of just two countries where drugmakers can advertise directly to patients.BrianAJackson/iStock via Getty Images

It’s a familiar experience for many Americans: You’re watching your favorite show and suddenly you’re ambushed by an ad for a drug whose name sounds like a Wi-Fi password, before a relentlessly...

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Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy

  • Written by Leonie Baier, Postdoctoral Fellow in Behavioral Biology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
imageA fringe-lipped bat carries a sound-and-movement biologging tag.Leonie Baier, CC BY-SA

Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above a stream, frogs call into the darkness.

But I am not there to see this scene.

It’s already passed. What I...

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Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood

  • Written by Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry, Rice University
imageNanoparticles on a glass slide amplify the sensitivity of a microscope to detect trace amounts of hazardous pollutants.Brandon Martin/Rice University

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the...

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Bad Bunny says reggaeton is Puerto Rican, but it was born in Panama

  • Written by Brendan Frizzell, PhD Student in Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imagePuerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny performs the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif.Bob Kupbens/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Bad Bunny likes to remind the world where he and his music come from.

In “EoO,” a song from his 2025 album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” he raps,...

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How the Seattle Seahawks’ sale will score a touchdown for charity 8 years after Paul Allen’s death

  • Written by Reid Kress Weisbord, Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Norma Shapiro Scholar, Rutgers University - Newark
imagePaul Allen, wearing a gray jacket, salutes the crowd during a celebration of the Seattle Seahawks' Super Bowl victory in 2014.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died on Oct. 15, 2018, he left behind an estimated US$26 billion that he wanted to largely leave to charity.

Allen died at 65 of septic shock after a yearslong...

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There aren’t enough geriatricians – here’s how older adults can still get the right care

  • Written by Jerry Gurwitz, Professor of Geriatrics, UMass Chan Medical School
imageGeriatricians are trained to look beyond individual illnesses that older adults may face, and instead to look at the bigger picture of aging.MoMo Productions/DigitalVision via Getty Images

More than 70 million baby boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – are alive today. In 2026, the oldest of them are turning 80.

With longer lives...

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Former Harvard president Summers’ soft landing after Epstein revelations is case study of economics’ trouble with misbehaving men

  • Written by Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Professor of Labor Studies, Rutgers University
imageLarry Summers, center, is surrounded by the media in 2005 amid calls for his resignation.Jodi Hilton/Getty Images

Economist Larry Summers will resign from his tenured job as a professor at Harvard University, the school announced on Feb. 25, 2026, following heightened scrutiny of his ties with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....

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Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?

  • Written by R. Alexander Bentley, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
imageTechnological innovation has always relied on experts collaborating across time and geography.EtiAmmos/iStock via Getty Images

In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a door frame that a bolt slides into – in a slab of sandstone by pecking at it with a rounded stone....

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Fewer new moms are dying in Colorado – naloxone might be one reason why

  • Written by Kaylin Klie, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageOverdose is the leading cause of death in postpartum women in Colorado and nationally.Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

In Colorado, from 2016 to 2020, 33 women who were pregnant or had recently given birth died from accidental overdoses. That’s more than died from traditional obstetric complications like infection,...

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  1. The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible – but they have shaped tradition for centuries
  2. How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could serve as a new energy source
  3. How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US
  4. Minneapolis united when federal immigration operations surged – reflecting a long tradition of mutual aid
  5. It’s never too late to learn a language – adults and kids bring different strengths to the task
  6. AI’s growing appetite for power is putting Pennsylvania’s aging electricity grid to the test
  7. Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion
  8. Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast
  9. The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science
  10. Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fall
  11. How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone
  12. From moral authority to risk management: How university presidents stopped speaking their minds
  13. Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios — and the research backs them up
  14. Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s
  15. Taboo tics like shouting curses and slurs are uncommon in Tourette syndrome − but people who have them suffer harsh social stigma
  16. Why does pain last longer for women? Immune cells may be the culprit
  17. Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency
  18. Honoring Colorado’s Black History requires taking the time to tell stories that make us think twice
  19. Artists and writers are often hesitant to disclose they’ve collaborated with AI – and those fears may be justified
  20. 50 years ago, the Supreme Court broke campaign finance regulation
  21. 1 protein to rule them all – why crowning the protein that makes jellyfish glow green as a model can help scientists streamline biology
  22. ‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you
  23. When civil rights protesters are killed, some deaths – generally those of white people – resonate more
  24. Florida’s proposed cuts to AIDS drug program threaten patient care and public health
  25. Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure
  26. Baptists have helped shape debate about religious freedom for over 400 years – up to today’s 10 Commandments laws
  27. Why standing in solidarity with immigrants is an act of accompaniment in Catholic philosophy
  28. Violent aftermath of Mexico’s ‘El Mencho’ killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits
  29. Crowdfunded generosity isn’t taxable – but IRS regulations haven’t kept up with the growth of mutual aid
  30. Picky eating starts in the womb – a nutritional neuroscientist explains how to expand your child’s palate
  31. What is Bluetooth and how does it work?
  32. How transparent policies can protect Florida school libraries amid efforts to ban books
  33. Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
  34. Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it
  35. Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with
  36. How Homeland Security’s subpoenas and databases of protesters threaten the ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide-open’ free speech protected by Supreme Court precedent
  37. Meekness isn’t weakness – once considered positive, it’s one of the ‘undersung virtues’ that deserve defense today
  38. Why Stephen Colbert is right about the ‘equal time’ rule, despite warnings from the FCC
  39. As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold?
  40. Supreme Court rules against Trump’s emergency tariffs – but leaves key questions unanswered
  41. Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s
  42. How Dracula became a red-hot lover
  43. After a 32-hour shift in Pittsburgh, I realized EMTs should be napping on the job
  44. Individual donors provide only a small slice of university research funding – but Jeffrey Epstein’s ties with academics show why screening matters
  45. Menstrual pads and tampons can contain toxic substances – here’s what to know about this emerging health issue
  46. Colorado has high levels of radon, which can cause lung cancer – here’s how to lower your risk
  47. Trump administration axed nutrition education program that saved more money than it cost, even as government encourages healthier eating
  48. Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works
  49. I’m a philosopher who tries to see the best in others – but I know there are limits
  50. Last nuclear weapons limits expired – pushing world toward new arms race