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Financial case for college remains strong, but universities need to add creative thinking to their curriculum

  • Written by Caroline Levander, Vice President Global Strategy & Carlson Professor in the Humanities, Rice University
imageUnemployment rates are lower among people who have a college degree, compared to those with a high school degree. Wong Yu Liang/iStock Images/Getty Images

A college degree was once seen as the golden ticket to landing a well-paying job. But many people are increasingly questioning the value of a four-year degree amid the rising cost of college.

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What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction?

  • Written by Jeff Moersch, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
imageOur solar system is mostly arranged along one plane in space, as in this not-to-scale artist's diagram.NASA/JPL, CC BY

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.

What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction? –...

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Trump lawsuits seek to muzzle media, posing serious threat to free press

  • Written by Kathy Kiely, Professor and Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
imagePresident Donald Trump, who has been involved in thousands of lawsuits, has made news outlets a particular target for litigation this year.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

In December 2025, President Donald Trump filed a US$10 billion lawsuit against the BBC in a federal court in Florida. It was only the latest in a long series of high-dollar legal challenges...

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Venezuela’s oil industry has flailed under government control – Mexico and Brazil have had more success with nationalizing

  • Written by Skip York, Nonresident Fellow in Energy and Global Oil, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
imageThe Venezuelan state-run oil company is contending with aging infrastructure.Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images

U.S. President Donald Trump has ignited a contentious debate over who has the right to control Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.

Speaking on Jan. 3, 2026, after the U.S. military seized Venezuelan President...

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CPR on TV is often inaccurate – but watching characters jump to the rescue can still save real lives

  • Written by Beth Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
imageYou probably don't want to base your CPR technique on 'The Office.'The Office/NBC via YouTube

Television characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life. But the CPR on these shows often depicts outdated practices and inaccuracies about who is most likely to experience cardiac...

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NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them

  • Written by Daniel Apai, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona
imageA new NASA mission will study exoplanets around distant stars. European Space Agency, CC BY-SA

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceXFalcon 9 rocket carriedNASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.

Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other...

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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections

  • Written by Gary W. Yohe, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
imageSevere storms triggered flooding across the central and eastern U.S. in April 2025, including in Kentucky's capital, Frankfort.Leandro Lozada/AFP via Getty Images

On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty for combating climate change. He...

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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty in latest move to dismantle America’s climate protections

  • Written by Gary W. Yohe, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
imageSevere storms triggered flooding across the central and eastern U.S. in April 2025, including in Kentucky's capital, Frankfort.Leandro Lozada/AFP via Getty Images

On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty for combating climate change. He...

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George Washington’s foreign policy was built on respect for other nations and patient consideration of future burdens

  • Written by Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
imageGeorge Washington believed restraint was the truest measure of American national interest.Elizabeth Fernandez/Getty Images

Foreign policy is usually discussed as a matter of national interests – oil flows, borders, treaties, fleets. But there is a problem: “national interest” is an inherently ambiguous phrase. Although it is often...

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Why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s closure exposes a growing threat to democracy

  • Written by Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
imageThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced it will shut down on May 3.AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced on Jan. 7, 2026, that it will cease all operations effective May 3. The daily newspaper, founded in 1786, has been the city’s paper of record for nearly a century and is one of the oldest newspapers in the country.

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  14. Taming the moral menace at capitalism’s core
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  16. Cuba’s leaders just lost an ally in Maduro − if starved of Venezuelan oil, they may also lose what remains of their public support
  17. Congress takes up health care again − and impatient voters shouldn’t hold their breath for a cure
  18. Risks young chimps take as they swing through the trees underscore role of protective parenting in humans
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