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Deportation of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany, on Dec. 13, 1941. Courtesy City Archive Bielefeld, CC BY-SA

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Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive

Staff Writer - January 25, 2025

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv call on the Israeli government to secure the release of the hostages during a Jan. 15, 2025, protest. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

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Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal: Why now and what next?

The media is the least trusted institution of 10 civil and political institutions in the U.S., recent polls show – even worse than Congress. Rapideye/iStock via Getty

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Mainstream media faces a credibility crisis – my journalism research shows how the news can still serve the public

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is dead; Syria’s Bashar Assad has fled. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is running out of friends. AFP/Getty Images

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Assad’s fall in Syria will further weaken Hezbollah and curtails Tehran’s ‘Iranization’ of region

Excavating the new trackway site, with footprints from hominins, birds and other animals visible in foreground. Neil Roach

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Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago

Demonstrators make graffiti reading ‘Columbus Out, Long Live the People’ on a fence protecting a statue of Christopher Columbus in Mexico City on Oct. 12, 2020. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

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Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America

Staff Writer - October 14, 2024

Flooding across North Carolina’s mountains left many residents with muddy, debris-strewn yards and flooded homes. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

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Health risks are growing in mountain areas flooded by Hurricane Helene...

Staff Writer - October 1, 2024

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How effective are public service announcements? Three scholars weigh in

Staff Writer - June 20, 2024

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Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions – here’s a...

Staff Writer - June 17, 2024

EXPLORING NATURE

A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Grant Maslowski

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Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal

Staff Writer - April 29, 2025

Logan S. James, The University of Texas at Austin; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Institution, and Ximena Bernal, Purdue University It...

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need extraordinary proof. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi

‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much...

April 27, 2025

Agricultural workers exposed to a hotter and drier climate are at an increased risk of kidney damage. George Rose/via Getty Images

Hotter and drier climate in Colorado’s San Luis Valley contributes to...

April 26, 2025

The coral reefs of Palmyra Atoll, part of Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, provide nurseries for many fish species. Andrew S. Wright/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr, CC BY-SA

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s...

April 23, 2025

Western North Carolina six months after Hurricane Helene is storm-scarred and still recovering. Sean Rayford/Getty Images

I study local government and Hurricane Helene forced me from my...

April 22, 2025