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How are dark matter and antimatter different?

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...

yesterday 10

Dipangkar Dutta

Pardons are political, with modern presidents expanding their use

President Donald Trump is making full use of his pardon power. This year, Trump has issued roughly 1,800 pardons, or nearly six times the number he...

yesterday 10

Stewart Ulrich

2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

The summer of 2025 brought unprecedented flash flooding across the U.S., with the central and eastern regions hit particularly hard. These storms...

yesterday 8

Shuang-Ye Wu

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a...

yesterday 8

Fred D. Ledley

Pandas, pingpong and ancient canals: President Xi’s hosting style says a lot about Chinese diplomacy

When French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to China in early December for his fourth state visit, the itinerary began with the expected...

yesterday 3

Xianda Huang

The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process

In the Star Trek universe, the audience occasionally gets a glimpse inside schools on the planet Vulcan. Young children stand alone in pods...

yesterday 3

Niral Shah

From civil disobedience to networked whistleblowing: What national security truth-tellers reveal in an age of crackdowns

Across the world, governments are tightening controls on speech, expanding surveillance and rolling back rights once thought to be secure. From...

yesterday 3

Kate Kenny

Coup contagion? A rash of African power grabs suggests copycats are taking note of others’ success

In a scene that has become familiar across parts of Africa of late, a group of armed men in military garb appeared on state TV on Dec. 7, 2025, to...

yesterday 2

Salah Ben Hammou

Getting peace right: Why justice needs to be baked into ceasefire agreements – including Ukraine’s

Efforts to end the war in Ukraine have grabbed global attention, fueled by debates over U.S. President Donald Trump’s 28-point plan – which many...

yesterday 2

Valerie Morkevicius

Science has always been marketed, from 18th-century coffeehouse demos of Newton’s ideas to today’s TikTok explainers

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover...

yesterday 2

Beth Dufault

Christmas trees are more expensive than ever in Colorado — what gives?

The holiday season sparks a significant increase in consumer spending. This year, Black Friday alone saw consumers shell out a record US$11.8...

yesterday 1

Ali Besharat

Best way for employers to support employees with chronic mental illness is by offering flexibility

More than 20% of Americans will be diagnosed with mental illness in their lifetimes. They will, that is, experience conditions that influence the...

yesterday 1

Sherry Thatcher

Epstein’s victims deserve more attention than his ‘client list’

Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a...

yesterday 1

Stephanie A. Martin

Chile elects most right-wing leader since Pinochet – in line with regional drift, domestic tendency to punish incumbents

José Antonio Kast, who has run for the presidency several times, successfully seized on widespread dissatisfaction over issues like crime and...

yesterday 0

Andra B. Chastain

Sharks and rays get a major win with new international trade limits for 70+ species

The world’s oceans are home to an exquisite variety of sharks and rays, from the largest fishes in the sea – the majestic whale shark and manta...

12.12.2025 30

Gareth J. Fraser

Trump administration replaces America 250 quarters honoring abolition and women’s suffrage with Mayflower and Gettysburg designs

The culture wars have arrived at the U.S. Mint. Commemorative coins aimed at celebrating America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 were unveiled by the...

12.12.2025 30

Seth T. Kannarr

A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs are high

In Colorado, full-time workers need to earn an hourly wage of at least $36.79 to afford $2,000 in monthly rent, which is below the federal fair...

12.12.2025 20

Jennifer C. Greenfield

Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

The amount of electricity data centers use in the U.S. in the coming years is expected to be significant. But regular reports of proposals for new...

12.12.2025 20

Theodore J. Kury

Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and more anticompetitive than ever

News of Netflix’s bid to buy Warner Bros. last week sent shock waves through the media ecosystem. The pending US$83 billion deal is being described...

12.12.2025 7

Matthew Jordan

How a niche Catholic approach to infertility treatment became a new talking point for MAHA conservatives

Along the 2024 presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to make in vitro fertilization, or IVF, free – part of his party’s wider push for...

12.12.2025 7

Emma Kennedy

West Bank violence is soaring, fueled by a capitulation of Israeli institutions to settlers’ interests

Owais Hammam was walking near his home in Khirbet Bani Harith in the West Bank on Dec. 3, 2025, when, according to media reports, he was kidnapped...

12.12.2025 2

Arie Perliger

Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing....

12.12.2025 2

Amirali Aghazadeh

How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age

It’s week one of the semester, the first day of class: 20 students, mostly freshmen, sit silently waiting for our English 101 Writing Composition...

12.12.2025 4

Sean Cho Ayres

Sleep problems and depression can be a vicious cycle, especially during pregnancy − here’s why it’s important to get help

Imagine you got a rough night of sleep. Perhaps you went to bed too late, needed to wake up early or still felt tired when you woke up from what...

12.12.2025 1

Jenalee Doom

What’s at stake in Trump’s executive order aiming to curb state-level AI regulation

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025, that aims to supersede state-level artificial intelligence laws that the...

12.12.2025 2

Anjana Susarla

Donor-advised funds have more money than ever – and direct more of it to politically active charities

Charitable giving in the United States has changed significantly in recent years. Two of the biggest changes are the swift growth of donor-advised...

12.12.2025 3

Brian Mittendorf

The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed...

12.12.2025 2

Mary Dzon

Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US seizure – starving Maduro of much-needed revenue

The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast looks designed to further squeeze the economy of President Nicolás Maduro’s country. The...

11.12.2025 9

Francisco J. Monaldi

Polytechnic universities focus on practical, career-oriented skills, offering an alternative to traditional universities

For decades, a four-year college degree was widely seen as the standard path to getting most midlevel jobs in the United States. It was the...

11.12.2025 90

Kelly Droege

Time banks could ease the burden of elder care and promote connection

Long-term care for older people is challenging for everyone. The costs are high and the quality of care is unpredictable at best, often falling...

11.12.2025 10

Chao Guo

The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction

Along with millions of others, I’ll soon be taking 2 hours and 10 minutes out of my busy holiday schedule to sit down and watch a movie I’ve seen...

11.12.2025 8

Nora Gilbert

Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerous

As projections of U.S. electricity demand rise sharply, President Donald Trump is looking to coal – historically a dominant force in the U.S....

11.12.2025 8

Hannah Wiseman

The Ivies can weather the Trump administration’s research cuts – it’s the nation’s public universities that have the most to lose

Most of the media coverage of the federal government’s recent cuts in federal research money for universities has focused on its effects on a...

11.12.2025 6

Todd L. Pittinsky

Hanukkah celebrates both an ancient military victory and a miracle of light – modern Jews can pick from either tradition

Friends and family will come together to celebrate, share gifts and eat traditional foods as the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins on...

11.12.2025 2

Joshua Shanes

AI’s errors may be impossible to eliminate – what that means for its use in health care

In the past decade, AI’s success has led to uncurbed enthusiasm and bold claims – even though users frequently experience errors that AI makes. An...

11.12.2025 6

Carlos Gershenson

Tariffs 101: What they are, who pays them, and why they matter now

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case to determine whether President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are legal. Until recently,...

11.12.2025 4

Kent Jones

‘Are you married?’ Why doctors ask invasive questions during treatment

It’s a rare occasion when my worlds of biomedical informatics and serialized lesbian melodrama fandom collide. But that’s exactly what happened...

11.12.2025 5

Jill Inderstrodt

As a former federal judge, I’m concerned by a year of challenges to the US justice system

The public has been hearing from a lot of federal judges over the past year, much more than normal. That’s because many of them are concerned about...

11.12.2025 1

John E. Jones Iii

AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving

Zohran Mamdani as a creepy trick-or-treater, Gavin Newsom body-slamming Donald Trump and Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero. This is not the setup to an...

11.12.2025 2

Lisa Fazio

How one Florida program reduced preterm births – and how it could serve as a model for other communities

One in 10 babies in the U.S. – nearly 374,000 infants – were born preterm in 2023, meaning before 37 weeks of pregnancy. More than 15% were very...

11.12.2025 5

Loveline Chizobam Phillips

Songbirds swap colorful plumage genes across species lines among their evolutionary neighbors

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of “survival of the fittest” is constantly at...

11.12.2025 2

David Toews

Trump administration’s immigrant detention policy broadly rejected by federal judges

In federal courtrooms across America, a pattern has emerged in cases in which immigrants are being rounded up and jailed without a hearing. That’s...

10.12.2025 1

Cassandra Burke Robertson

2026’s abortion battles will be fought more in courthouses and FDA offices than at the voting booth

In 2026, the biggest battles over abortion will not be at the polls. There will be a few contested measures on state ballots. Next year, Nevada’s...

10.12.2025 1

Rachel Rebouché

From FIFA to the LA Clippers, carbon offset scandals are exposing the gap between sports teams’ green promises and reality

If you go to a pro sports event today, there’s a good chance the stadium or arena will be powered at least in part by renewable energy. The team...

10.12.2025 3

Brian P. Mccullough

New industry standards and tech advances make pre-owned electronics a viable holiday gift option

Electronic gifts are very popular, and in recent years, retailers have been offering significant discounts on smartphones, e-readers and other...

10.12.2025 4

Suvrat Dhanorkar

Germany’s plan to deport Syrian refugees echoes 1980s effort to repatriate Turkish guest workers

For 14 years while Syria’s brutal civil war raged, Germany provided a safe haven for those fleeing the violence. Now, a year after that conflict...

10.12.2025 2

Michelle Lynn Kahn

From early cars to generative AI, new technologies create demand for specialized materials

Generative artificial intelligence has become widely accepted as a tool that increases productivity. Yet the technology is far from mature. Large...

10.12.2025 2

Peter Müllner

Doulas play essential roles in reproductive health care – and more states are beginning to recognize it

A growing share of Americans, especially in rural areas, are losing access to reproductive health care. At the same time, American women are dying...

10.12.2025 4

Adetola F. Louis-Jacques

Exposure to neighborhood violence leads some Denver teens to use tobacco and alcohol earlier, new study shows

High levels of neighborhood violence increase the risk of Latino and African American teens in Denver starting to use alcohol and tobacco,...

10.12.2025 1

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How are dark matter and antimatter different?

Dipangkar Dutta

Pardons are political, with modern presidents expanding their use

Stewart Ulrich

2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

Shuang-Ye Wu

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

Fred D. Ledley

Pandas, pingpong and ancient canals: President Xi’s hosting style says a lot about Chinese diplomacy

Xianda Huang

The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process

Niral Shah

From civil disobedience to networked whistleblowing: What national security truth-tellers reveal in an age of crackdowns

Kate Kenny

Coup contagion? A rash of African power grabs suggests copycats are taking note of others’ success

Salah Ben Hammou

Getting peace right: Why justice needs to be baked into ceasefire agreements – including Ukraine’s

Valerie Morkevicius

Science has always been marketed, from 18th-century coffeehouse demos of Newton’s ideas to today’s TikTok explainers

Beth Dufault

Christmas trees are more expensive than ever in Colorado — what gives?

Ali Besharat

Best way for employers to support employees with chronic mental illness is by offering flexibility

Sherry Thatcher

Epstein’s victims deserve more attention than his ‘client list’

Stephanie A. Martin

Chile elects most right-wing leader since Pinochet – in line with regional drift, domestic tendency to punish incumbents

Andra B. Chastain

Sharks and rays get a major win with new international trade limits for 70+ species

Gareth J. Fraser

Trump administration replaces America 250 quarters honoring abolition and women’s suffrage with Mayflower and Gettysburg designs

Seth T. Kannarr

A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs are high

Jennifer C. Greenfield

Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

Theodore J. Kury

Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and more anticompetitive than ever

Matthew Jordan

How a niche Catholic approach to infertility treatment became a new talking point for MAHA conservatives

Emma Kennedy

West Bank violence is soaring, fueled by a capitulation of Israeli institutions to settlers’ interests

Arie Perliger

Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

Amirali Aghazadeh

How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age

Sean Cho Ayres

Sleep problems and depression can be a vicious cycle, especially during pregnancy − here’s why it’s important to get help

Jenalee Doom

What’s at stake in Trump’s executive order aiming to curb state-level AI regulation

Anjana Susarla

Donor-advised funds have more money than ever – and direct more of it to politically active charities

Brian Mittendorf

The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’

Mary Dzon

Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US seizure – starving Maduro of much-needed revenue

Francisco J. Monaldi

Polytechnic universities focus on practical, career-oriented skills, offering an alternative to traditional universities

Kelly Droege

Time banks could ease the burden of elder care and promote connection

Chao Guo

The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction

Nora Gilbert

Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerous

Hannah Wiseman

The Ivies can weather the Trump administration’s research cuts – it’s the nation’s public universities that have the most to lose

Todd L. Pittinsky

Hanukkah celebrates both an ancient military victory and a miracle of light – modern Jews can pick from either tradition

Joshua Shanes

AI’s errors may be impossible to eliminate – what that means for its use in health care

Carlos Gershenson

Tariffs 101: What they are, who pays them, and why they matter now

Kent Jones

‘Are you married?’ Why doctors ask invasive questions during treatment

Jill Inderstrodt

As a former federal judge, I’m concerned by a year of challenges to the US justice system

John E. Jones Iii

AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving