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  1. Supreme Court ruling on Colorado conversion therapy case is not a clear win for conservatives
  2. Why the manosphere has an antisemitism problem
  3. Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity
  4. The costume maker who convinced Hersheypark to embrace candy mascots and ‘chocolatize’ their old-timey theme park
  5. Pam Bondi’s extreme political loyalty to Trump wasn’t enough to save her job
  6. Iran’s president appeals to Americans − but does his office still hold any real power?
  7. The nonprofit status of NCAA athletic departments is starting to raise questions
  8. Kratom poisonings surged 1,200% over the past decade, and regulators are struggling to keep up with the dangers
  9. SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple did, as companies go public later in life and early investors cash out
  10. For adults with ADHD – or even those with just some symptoms – using smart strategies to start and complete tasks can make all the difference
  11. MLB doubles down on gambling with new Polymarket deal
  12. How Iranian hackers pose a threat to US critical infrastructure
  13. Getting $750 a month didn’t end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people
  14. Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes
  15. Better urban design could help save Florida’s threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel
  16. Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s
  17. AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains
  18. 75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did
  19. Trump risks falling in to the ‘asymmetric resolve’ trap in Iran − just as presidents before him did elsewhere
  20. Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does – and doesn’t – change about warfare
  21. The Department of Justice is suing states for sensitive voter data − an election law scholar explains why federal efforts are facing resistance
  22. Why Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, won’t stop ‘til she gets enough from his estate
  23. You’re not going to be alone in national parks this summer – enjoy the company
  24. Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US
  25. Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed
  26. The NFL draft brings economic gains – and hidden public safety costs
  27. What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil
  28. Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game
  29. How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have
  30. Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition
  31. ‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts
  32. Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles
  33. How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
  34. How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets
  35. From youth bulges to graying societies: The demographic dynamics that are upending the world
  36. Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh could shake up the central bank with his ‘family fight’ model
  37. Ticks are the backyard threat southwestern Pennsylvania homeowners keep ignoring
  38. Benefits of mindfulness meditation go far beyond relaxation – here’s what it is and how to practice it
  39. Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon
  40. How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them
  41. Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
  42. NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence
  43. Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
  44. Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
  45. Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management
  46. Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth
  47. Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots
  48. We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations
  49. Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a false choice – protecting wildlife can be good for business
  50. COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know