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Meditation and mindfulness offer an abundance of health benefits and may be as effective as medication for treating certain conditions

  • Written by Hilary A. Marusak, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
imagePeople of any age or walk of life can access and benefit from meditation.Daniel de la Hoz/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Many people look to diet trends or new exercise regimens – often with questionable benefit – to get a healthier start on the new year. But there is one strategy that’s been shown time and again to boost both mood...

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Lobsters versus right whales: The latest chapter in a long quest to make fishing more sustainable

  • Written by Blake Earle, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University
imageLobster fishing uses a lot of rope, and whales can die after becoming entangled in it. MyLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Maine lobster fishermen received a Christmas gift from Congress at the end of 2022: A six-year delay on new federal regulations designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The rules would...

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Congress investigates presidents, the military, baseball and whatever it wants – a brief modern history of oversight

  • Written by Claire Leavitt, Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
imageSpeaker of the House Kevin McCarthy walks to the speaker's ceremonial office at the Capitol on Jan. 9, 2023. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

After regaining a slim majority in the House of Representatives in the November 2022 midterm elections, Republicans unveiled their plans for a series of investigations into the Biden administration.

The new...

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Trump is facing various criminal charges – here's what we can learn from legal cases against Nixon and Clinton

  • Written by Kirsten Matoy Carlson, Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
imageDonald Trump waves to people during a New Year's event at his Mar-a-Lago home in December 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A Georgia special grand jury has finished its work investigating whether former president Donald Trump and his allies committed crimes when trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

While special grand juries cannot themselves...

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ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and the collapse of the creative process

  • Written by Nir Eisikovits, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
imageDoes the moment of imagination carry more value than the work of making something real?DeAgostini/Getty Images

In 2022, OpenAI – one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research laboratories – released the text generator ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E 2. While both programs represent monumental leaps in natural...

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Dead billionaires whose foundations are thriving today can thank Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

  • Written by Nuri Heckler, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageAutomaker Henry Ford's name endures on the foundation formed from his fortune.Hulton Archive/Getty Images

More than 230 of the world’s wealthiest people, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have promised to give at least half of their fortunes to charity within their lifetimes or in their wills by signing the Giving Pledge....

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NASA's busiest year in decades – an astronomer sums up the dizzying array of missions in 2022

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
imageThe James Webb Space Telescope began sending its first images back to Earth in the summer of 2022.NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via Flickr, CC BY

NASA had a banner year in 2022, with many successful missions in what was one of the organization’s most active years in decades.

I’m a professor of astronomy who has used NASA telescopes for...

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How does a child become a shooter? Research suggests easy access to guns and exposure to screen violence increase the risk

  • Written by Brad Bushman, Professor of Communication and Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication, The Ohio State University
imageThe shooting of an elementary school teacher by one of her students is a shocking example of gun violence.Jay Paul/Getty Images

In the aftermath of a shocking incident in which a first grader shot and seriously injured a teacher at a school in Newport News, Virginia, the city’s mayor asked the question: “How did this happen?”

Some...

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China looms large as President Biden and Japan's PM Kishida sit down to discuss defense shift, regional tensions

  • Written by Mary M. McCarthy, Professor of Political Science, Drake University
imageBiden and Kishida: A relationship far from flagging.Eugene Hoshiko/Getty Images

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to sit down with President Joe Biden at the White House on Jan. 13, 2023.

The bilateral meeting in the U.S. is the final stop for Kishida in a five-day tour of allies that has also seen him visit France, Italy, the U.K. and...

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Consumers often can't detect fake reviews – and underestimate how many negative reviews might be fakes

  • Written by Shabnam Azimi, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
imageFake reviews of products and services are rampant online – and are often hard to pick out from the real ones.anyaberkut/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

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

The big idea

Consumers who have a personality that scores high in terms of openness – such as being open to...

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  2. AI and the future of work: 5 experts on what ChatGPT, DALL-E and other AI tools mean for artists and knowledge workers
  3. 5 types of threat – how those who want to divide us use language to stoke violence
  4. What the FDA's rule changes allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be dispensed by pharmacies mean in practice – 5 questions answered
  5. Triggering cancer cells to become normal cells – how stem cell therapies can provide new ways to stop tumors from spreading or growing back
  6. College students who work more hours are less likely to graduate
  7. 2022's billion-dollar disasters: Climate change helped make it US's 3rd most expensive year on record
  8. Global economy 2023: COVID-19 turned global supply chains upside down – 3 ways the pandemic forced companies to rethink and transform how they source their products
  9. Atmospheric rivers over California’s wildfire burn scars raise fears of deadly mudslides – this is what cascading climate disasters look like
  10. DOJ probes Biden document handling – what is classified information, anyway?
  11. Organ-on-a-chip models allow researchers to conduct studies closer to real-life conditions – and possibly grease the drug development pipeline
  12. The safer you feel, the less safely you might behave – but research suggests ways to counteract this tendency
  13. China now publishes more high-quality science than any other nation -- should the US be worried?
  14. 30 years on, Czechoslovakia's 'velvet divorce' is not a model for Scottish independence from the UK
  15. Remote work has made developing relationships with colleagues harder – here's what workers and bosses need now
  16. God and guns often go together in US history – this course examines why
  17. Human actions created the Salton Sea, California's largest lake – here's how to save it from collapse, protecting wild birds and human health
  18. Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad are an important piece of history – here's why art historians teach them
  19. How to unlock your creativity – even if you see yourself as a conventional thinker
  20. Russia's war in Ukraine threatens students daily and forces teachers to improvise
  21. How cancer cells move and metastasize is influenced by the fluids surrounding them – understanding how tumors migrate can help stop their spread
  22. What's a 'gig' job? How it's legally defined affects workers' rights and protections
  23. Israel's new hard-line government has made headlines – the bigger demographic changes that caused it, not so much
  24. Democracy under attack in Brazil: 5 questions about the storming of Congress and the role of the military
  25. First grader who shot teacher in Virginia is among the youngest school shooters in US history
  26. First grader who shot teacher in Virginia is among the youngest school shooters in nation's history
  27. Kevin McCarthy voted Speaker of the House on 15th vote — we had some questions about the chaotic week in Congress and got a few answers
  28. How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific
  29. Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography
  30. Alcohol use is widely accepted in the US, but even moderate consumption is associated with many harmful effects
  31. Visualizing the inside of cells at previously impossible resolutions provides vivid insights into how they work
  32. What is Pentecostal Christianity?
  33. 4 ways Netanyahu's new far-right government threatens Israeli democracy
  34. Ancient Greece had extreme polarization and civil strife too -- how Thucydides can help us understand Jan. 6 and its aftermath
  35. Foams used in car seats and mattresses are hard to recycle – we made a plant-based version that avoids polyurethane's health risks, too
  36. Ukraine schools remain a key battlefront in fight for nation's future
  37. Making sweat feel spiritual didn't start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains
  38. Long COVID stemmed from mild cases of COVID-19 in most people, according to a new multicountry study
  39. Talking across the political aisle isn't a cure-all - but it does help reduce hostility
  40. Not all insurrections are equal -- for enslaved Americans, it was the only option
  41. Green jobs are booming, but too few employees have sustainability skills to fill them – here are 4 ways to close the gap
  42. Sports broadcasters have a duty to report injuries responsibly – in the case of NFL's Damar Hamlin, they passed the test
  43. Diversity of US workplaces is growing in terms of race, ethnicity and age – forcing more employers to be flexible
  44. Nanomedicines for various diseases are in development – but research facilities produce vastly inconsistent results on how the body will react to them
  45. Worker strikes and union elections surged in 2022 – could it mark a turning point for organized labor?
  46. 'Whisper networks' thrive when women lose faith in formal systems of reporting sexual harassment
  47. Working in isolation can pose mental health challenges – here’s what anyone can learn from how gig workers have adapted
  48. Beyond Section 230: A pair of social media experts describes how to bring transparency and accountability to the industry
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  50. William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today's idea of a nature-positive life