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Are animals smart? From dolphin language to toolmaking crows, lots of species have obvious intelligence

  • Written by Leticia Fanucchi, Clinical Assistant Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Oklahoma State University
imageDolphins communicate using a sophisticated combination of clicks and whistles.Stephen Frink/The Image Bank via Getty Images

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Are animals smart? – Deron

It’s a fascinating question...

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How the human neck became a locus of power, beauty and frailty

  • Written by Kent Dunlap, Professor of Biology, Trinity College
imageJack Lemmon kisses Lee Remick's neck in a scene from the 1962 film 'Days Of Wine And Roses.'Warner Brothers/Getty Images

I broke its neck.

When making a vase at the potter’s wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin it into a graceful curve.

I find vases gratifying to make and their shapes especially pleasing to...

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Russia’s shrinking world: The war in Ukraine and Moscow’s global reach

  • Written by Ronald H. Linden, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Russia President Vladimir Putin sent a guarded message of congratulations to Donald Trump on inauguration day, but then held a long direct call with his “dear friend,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

From Putin’s perspective, this makes sense. Russia gets billions of dollars from energy sales to China and technology from Beijing, but...

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5 premium online research tools all Philly students can use for free

  • Written by Joyce Valenza, Associate Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
imageThe School District of Philadelphia has 250 district and alternative schools – but only a few have libraries with certified librarians.Lisa5201/E+ Collection via Getty Images

Years ago, as a high school librarian in suburban Philadelphia, I hosted a group of honors students from a high school just across the nearby city border. With the...

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Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today

  • Written by Meghan Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
imageA mural outside St. Jude Thaddeus Church in Silao, Mexico, quotes the Good Samaritan story: 'Go and do likewise.'Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more than a mainstay of Sunday school courses. “Good samaritan” is the catch-all way to describe a do-gooder...

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US sovereign wealth fund: A feasible idea to invest strategically, or a giant opportunity for waste?

  • Written by Patrick J. Schena, Professor of Practice and International Business, Tufts University
imageU.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund on Feb. 3, 2025Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Could the United States soon be joining the likes of Norway, Kuwait and Mongolia in having a national reserve to invest on projects of strategic interest? If President Donald Trump gets his way, then perhaps so.

O...

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Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it

  • Written by Allison Stanger, Distinguished Endowed Professor, Middlebury
imageElon Musk, right, has moved to take the reins of the U.S. government.Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory...

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Seed oils are toxic, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – but it’s not so simple

  • Written by Mary J. Scourboutakos, Adjunct Lecturer in Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
imageSeed oils have become a mainstay of the American diet. d3sign/Moment via Getty Images

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is expected to clear the final hurdles in his confirmation as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, and a host of health influencers have proclaimed that widely used cooking oils such as canola oil and soybean oil are toxic.

T-...

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Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict

  • Written by Christine Leuenberger, Senior Lecturer, Cornell University
imageA lot has changed since the publication of this 1750 map of Palestine.Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Image

Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boundaries, others show different voting blocs in elections, and GPS...

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Why does Trump want to abolish the Education Department? An anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons

  • Written by Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
imageA pedestrian walks past the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building on Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images

“And one other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education.”

President Donald Trump made this promise in a Sept....

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  2. Why Americans need well-informed national security decisions – not politicized intelligence analysis
  3. The illusion of equal opportunity for minority NFL coaches
  4. California wildfires force students to think about the connections between STEM and society
  5. Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? A security expert explains the dangers of violating protocols and regulations that protect government computer systems
  6. Kendrick Lamar’s big Super Bowl moment
  7. Anti-LGBTQ+ policies harm the health of not only LGBTQ+ people, but all Americans
  8. How populist leaders like Trump use ‘common sense’ as an ideological weapon to undermine facts
  9. AI datasets have human values blind spots − new research
  10. US dodged a bird flu pandemic in 1957 thanks to eggs and dumb luck – with a new strain spreading fast, will Americans get lucky again?
  11. Trump’s offshore wind energy freeze: What states lose if the executive order remains in place
  12. What Los Angeles-area schools can learn from other districts devastated by natural disasters
  13. 5 Super Bowl commercials that deserve places in the advertising hall of shame
  14. The Eagles and Chiefs have already made Philadelphia and Kansas City economic winners
  15. Religious freedom is routinely curbed in Central Asia – but you won’t often see it making international news
  16. Palestinians have long resisted resettlement – Trump’s plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza won’t change that
  17. After he reached the Super Bowl, Colin Kaepernick’s racial justice protests helped expose US views toward sports activism
  18. This Valentine’s Day, try loving-kindness meditation
  19. Friendship, a covenant, romance – no matter what you call it, David’s love for Jonathan is one of the Bible’s most beautiful
  20. Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
  21. Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons, according to a classics expert
  22. Trump’s administration seems chaotic, but he’s drawing directly from Project 2025 playbook
  23. Reverence for the sacred waters of the Ganga and belief in its power to wash away sins bring millions to India’s Maha Kumbh festival
  24. Water is the other US-Mexico border crisis, and the supply crunch is getting worse
  25. As Trump tries to slash US foreign aid, here are 3 common myths many Americans mistakenly believe about it
  26. Trump’s opening tariff salvo will hurt US consumers − following through on Canada, Mexico threats will increase the price pain
  27. Trump’s tariff gambit: As allies prepare to strike back, a costly trade war looms
  28. Who are immigrants to the US, where do they come from and where do they live?
  29. What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care
  30. Some viruses prefer mosquitoes to humans, but people get sick anyway − a virologist and entomologist explain why
  31. Smart brands rein in ad spending when a rival faces a setback − here’s why
  32. Hunger rises as food aid falls – and those living under autocratic systems bear the brunt
  33. Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
  34. I’m a sports psychologist and diehard Eagles fan – here’s the behavioral science behind a Super Bowl LIX win
  35. I’m a sports psychologist and diehard Eagles fan - here’s the behavioral science behind a Super Bowl LIX win
  36. Musk’s inauguration salute is not the only apparent fascist signal from Trump’s administration
  37. President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated − but there are lessons in Old Hickory’s resistance to sycophants
  38. 3 ways the Trump administration could reinvest in rural America’s future
  39. 3 ways the Trump administration could reinvest in rural America’s future, starting with health care
  40. Trump’s Project 2025 agenda caps decades-long resistance to 20th century progressive reform
  41. Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy
  42. Drought can hit almost anywhere: How 5 cities that nearly ran dry got water use under control
  43. Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
  44. Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
  45. Your environment affects how well your medications work − identifying exactly how could make medicine better
  46. Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains
  47. The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
  48. Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
  49. Property and sovereignty in space − as countries and companies take to the stars, they could run into disputes
  50. Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about St. Isidore, a Catholic school in Oklahoma, could redraw lines around church and state in education