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Neighbors and strangers pulled together to help LA fire survivors – 60 years of research shows these unsung heroes are crucial to disaster response

  • Written by Tricia Wachtendorf, Professor of Sociology and Director, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
imageNeighbors fill and pass a bucket of pool water to help extinguish a spot fire in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2025.Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Image

As wildfires swept through neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles in January 2025, stories about residents there helping their neighbors and total strangers began...

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Amid LA fires, neighbors helped each other survive – 60 years of research shows how local heroes are crucial to disaster response

  • Written by Tricia Wachtendorf, Professor of Sociology and Director, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
imageNeighbors fill and pass a bucket of pool water to help extinguish a spot fire in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2025.Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Image

As wildfires swept through neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles in January 2025, stories about residents there helping their neighbors and total strangers began...

Read more: Amid LA fires, neighbors helped each other survive – 60 years of research shows how local heroes...

Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon will need better boots − here’s why

  • Written by Jesse Rhoades, Associate Professor of Education, Heath & Behavior, University of North Dakota
imageThe lunar south pole's terrain is rugged, and it can reach extreme temperatures. Michael Karrer/Flickr, CC BY-NC

The U.S.’s return to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis program will not be a mere stroll in the park. Instead it will be a perilous journey to a lunar location representing one of the most extreme environments in the solar system....

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Trump’s idea to use military to deport over 10 million migrants faces legal, constitutional and practical hurdles

  • Written by Cassandra Burke Robertson, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University

A sweeping crackdown on immigration was the centerpiece of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

“On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America,” Trump promised at a rally in Madison Square Garden in late October 2024.

After winning, he suggested in a Nov. 18 post on his...

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Why is the sky blue?

  • Written by Daniel Freedman, Dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Stout
imageLight at the blue end of the rainbow is scattered more efficiently than the other colors.shomos uddin/Moment via Getty Images

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

Why is the sky blue? – Mariana A-E., age 11, Tucson, Arizona

Yo...

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What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to – and the cultural moment unfolding there

  • Written by Jianqing Chen, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
imageTikTok users fleeing to the app RedNote are mingling with Chinese social media users.VCG/VCG via Getty Images

TikTok refugees fled by the millions to RedNote, a Chinese app, in response to the TikTok ban, which went into effect Jan. 19, 2025. The company shut down the app shortly before midnight on Jan. 18.

Through cat memes, shared jokes about the...

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Texas is already policing the Mexican border − and will play an outsize role in any Trump plan to crack down on immigration

  • Written by Dan DeBree, Associate Professor of the Practice, Texas A&M University
imageMaverick County Sheriff's Office Deputy Sgt. Aaron Horta, EMT operators and Border Patrol officers carry a body out of a canal on June 28, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Over the past half-decade, the state of Texas has been pushing an evolution in the administration and enforcement of immigration law. Stepping into a...

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Biden helped bring science out of the lab and into the community − emphasizing research focused on solutions

  • Written by Arthur Daemmrich, Professor of Practice in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
imageBiden began his presidency in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic.Evan Vucci/AP Photo

President Joe Biden was inaugurated in January 2021 amid a devastating pandemic, with over 24 million COVID-19 cases and more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. recorded at that point.

Operation Warp Speed, initiated by the Trump administration in May 2020, meant an...

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China tech shrugged off Trump’s ‘trade war’ − there’s no reason it won’t do the same with new tariffs

  • Written by Yu Zhou, Professor of Economic Geography, Vassar College
imageWhen it comes to slowing down China's tech rise, tariffs won't do the trick. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

When Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’ll be accompanied by a coterie of China hawks, all vowing to use tariffs and export bans to stop Beijing from challenging the United States’ supremacy in technology.

This...

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David Lynch exposed the rot at the heart of American culture

  • Written by Billy J. Stratton, Professor of English and Literary Arts, University of Denver
imageLynch, the director of 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' died in January 2024 at the age of 78.Hector Mata/AFP via Getty Images

“There’s a sort of evil out there,” says Sheriff Truman in an episode of David Lynch’s iconic TV series, “Twin Peaks.”

That line gets to the heart of the work of the filmmaker, whose...

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  4. How the literature of fire can help readers find hope among the ashes
  5. The Starbase rocket testing facility is permanently changing the landscape of southern Texas
  6. Tool of faith or digital distraction? Catholic Church offers indulgences to faithful who fast from social media
  7. Acute stress and early signs of PTSD are common in firefighters and other first responders − here’s what to watch out for
  8. Israel-Hamas deal shows limits of US influence – and the unpredictable impact of Trump
  9. How constitutional guardrails have always contained presidential ambitions
  10. MLK’s ‘beloved community’ has inspired social justice work for decades − what did he mean?
  11. Civil servants brace for a second Trump presidency
  12. How Trump could try to stay in power after his second term ends
  13. The US ambassador to the UN is tasked with doing a careful dance between Washington and the world
  14. Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity
  15. Joe Biden leaves a complicated legacy on the federal courts
  16. How America courted increasingly destructive wildfires − and what that means for protecting homes today
  17. Bird flu flares up again in Michigan poultry – an infectious disease expert explains the risk to humans, chickens, cows and other animals
  18. Community savings groups in Uganda are good stewards of local people’s money – and of outsiders’ funds too, research shows
  19. This course examines Israeli school division to better understand education policy – and society – in the US
  20. The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione
  21. Bezos’ Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket to orbit − a feat 15 years in the making
  22. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy provides in-house science advice for the president
  23. Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal: Why now and what next?
  24. Biden’s move to remove Cuba from terror list continues ‘yo-yo’ policy likely to be reversed by Trump
  25. LA fires: Harm from long-term exposure to wildfire smoke is poorly understood − and it’s a growing risk
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  27. Universities are mapping where local news outlets are still thriving − and where gaps persist
  28. A national, nonpartisan study of the Los Angeles fires could improve planning for future disasters
  29. Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing spotlights competing approaches in fight against misinformation and hate speech
  30. Joe Biden’s record on science and tech: Investments and regulation for vaccines, broadband, microchips and AI
  31. Insurance for natural disasters is failing homeowners − I don’t have the answers, but I do know the right questions to ask
  32. Kamala Harris memes questioning her cultural background highlight Americans’ contradictions with race
  33. In eyeing Greenland, Trump is echoing long-held American designs on the Arctic expanse
  34. Catholic cardinals play a key role in secular politics as well as the Catholic Church–and the importance of Pope Francis’ choice to head the church in DC
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  36. This class uses museums to show law students the high art of curating ideas
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  39. How the CIA director helps the US navigate a world of spies, threats and geopolitical turbulence
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