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Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions – here’s a look at how they navigate the world

Staff Writer - June 17, 2024

‘Atlases,’ Victoria Lomasko’s mural at Miami University. Used by permission of Victoria Lomasko

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An artist traces her choices under Putin’s Russia – from resistance to retreat to exile – one mural at a time

This photo, taken with permission from cemetery officials, shows Donald Trump during his visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 26, 2024. Kevin Carter/Getty Images

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Trump campaign violated rules in Arlington National Cemetery visit, cemetery legal expert explains

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Female mosquitoes rely on one another to choose the best breeding sites − and with the arrival of spring, they’re already on the hunt

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How Florida’s home insurance market became so dysfunctional, so fast

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

Social media use before bedtime can be stimulating in ways that screen time alone is not. Adam Hester/Tetra Images via Getty Images

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Social media before bedtime wreaks havoc on our sleep − a...

Staff Writer - April 9, 2025

Political surveys conducted for CNN and other major media outlets can shape the nation’s perception of a presidential race. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

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Why CNN is changing up its polling for 2024

Staff Writer - October 2, 2024

Black holes, like the one in this illustration, can spray powerful jets. S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF), CC BY-SA

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Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where −...

Staff Writer - March 31, 2025

Buildings and a ceasefire left in ruins after airstrikes on March 18, 2025. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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The Gaza ceasefire is dead − Israeli domestic politics killed it

Staff Writer - March 20, 2025

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How effective are public service announcements? Three scholars weigh in

Staff Writer - June 20, 2024

The “black-legged” or “black-tailed” mosquito is known for infecting humans with the EEE virus. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

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As eastern equine encephalitis spreads, a neurologist explains how to stay...

Staff Writer - September 8, 2024

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...

Staff Writer - January 3, 2025

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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