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How can you tell if something is true? Here are 3 questions to ask yourself about what you see, hear and read

  • Written by Bob Britten, Teaching Associate Professor of Media, West Virginia University
imageEmotions can get in the way of knowing what’s true.Elva Etienne/Moment via Getty Imagesimage

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.

How can I tell if what I am hearing is true? – Adam, age 10, Maui, Hawaii

Have you ever heard...

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Celebrities in politics have a leg up, but their advantages can't top fundraising failures

  • Written by Richard T. Longoria, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
imageMehmet Oz speaks on Nov. 8, 2022, shortly before losing his bid for Pennsylvania senator during the midterm elections. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

TV personality Mehmet Oz lost his bid for Pennsylvania senator during the November midterms. And former NFL football star Herschel Walker appears to be falling further behind his opponent, incumbent...

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Treating mental illness with electricity marries old ideas with modern tech and understanding of the brain – podcast

  • Written by Daniel Merino, Assistant Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
imageIn deep brain stimulation, electrodes – the pale white lines – are implanted into a patient's brain and connected to a battery in a person's chest. Jmarchn/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Mental illnesses such as obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and addiction are notoriously hard to treat and often don’t respond to drugs. But...

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Rampage at Virginia Walmart follows upward trend in supermarket gun attacks – here's what we know about retail mass shooters

  • Written by Jillian Peterson, Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
imageThe latest target in America's gun crime epidemic.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

A gun rampage at a Walmart in Virginia is the latest amid a rise in mass shootings in general in the U.S., and mass shootings at grocery and retail stores in particular.

Multiple people including the gunman were killed in the incident on Nov. 22, 2022, at an outlet of the...

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Wilma Mankiller, first female principal chief of Cherokee Nation, led with compassion and continues to inspire today

  • Written by Julie Reed, Associate Professor in History, Penn State
imageWilma Mankiller served in the top leadership role of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995.Peter Turnley/Corbis Historical via Getty Images

If you fish in your pocket or purse for a U.S. quarter today, there’s a chance you’ll see Wilma Mankiller’s face. She was the Cherokee Nation’s first female principal chief, and she...

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What is ethical animal research? A scientist and veterinarian explain

  • Written by Lana Ruvolo Grasser, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health
imageAnimal research's benefits are clear -- but public awareness of what it involves is not.Javier Pierini/DigitalVision via Getty Images

A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made that country the first to ban medical and scientific experimentation on animals. It failed to pass in February 2022, with only 21% of voters in favor. Yet globally, in...

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Scientists discover five new species of black corals living thousands of feet below the ocean surface near the Great Barrier Reef

  • Written by Jeremy Horowitz, Post-doctoral Fellow in Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution
imageResearchers discovered five new species of black corals, including this *Hexapathes bikofskii* growing out of a nautilus shell more than 2,500 feet (760 meters) below the surface.Jeremy Horowitz, CC BY-NC

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and Idiscovered...

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Midterm election results reflect the hodgepodge of US voters, not the endorsement or repudiation of a candidate’s or party’s agenda

  • Written by Robert B. Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
imageVoters in the midterm elections decided that the GOP would run the House, while the Democrats would run the Senate.Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty Images

The results from the U.S. midterm elections came as a shock to many. The sitting president’s party typically suffers significant losses in House, Senate and gubernatorial races in the first midterm...

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Dreaming of beachfront real estate? Much of Florida's coast is at risk of storm erosion that can cause homes to collapse, as Daytona just saw

  • Written by Zhong-Ren Peng, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
imageDozens of homes were left unstable in the Daytona Beach area after Hurricane Nicole's erosion.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several houses, and even swimming pools, were left dangling over the ocean as waves eroded the property beneath them. Dozens of homes and condo...

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The World Cup puts the spotlight on Qatar, but also brings attention to its human rights record and politics – 4 things to know

  • Written by David Mednicoff, Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
imageFans watch the World Cup opening match between Qatar and Ecuador on Nov. 20, 2022, in Doha. Clive Brunskili/Getty Images

With the start of the World Cup on Nov. 20, 2022, soccer teams from 32 countries and tens of thousands of fans have converged on Qatar, a tiny Arab country on a peninsula in the Persian Gulf. But search “Qatar 2022”...

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  28. Doctors often miss depression symptoms for certain groups – a routine screening policy for all adult primary care patients could significantly reduce the gap
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  31. Some midterm polls were on-target - but finding which pollsters and poll aggregators to believe can be challenging
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