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Hulk Hogan’s international fame as a wrestling superstar began in the 1980s. This photo is from 2009. Paul Kane via Getty Images Entertainment

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As wrestling fans reel from the sudden death of Hulk Hogan, a cardiologist explains how to live long and healthy − and avoid chronic disease

Staff Writer - August 2, 2025

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Federal funding for higher ed comes with strings attached, but is still worth it

A portrait of President Donald Trump in the ‘America’s Presidents’ exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. Win McNamee/Getty Images

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With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars

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School safety commission misses the mark by ignoring guns

While other presidential administrations have issued ‘Dear Colleague’ letters to schools, the Trump administration is the first to treat the letter like a law that mandates action. iStock/Getty Images Plus

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Trump has promised to eliminate funding to schools that don’t nix DEI work – but half of the states are not complying

Teachers need to be scientists themselves, experimenting and measuring the impact of powerful AI products on education. Hyoung Chang via Getty Images

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What past education technology failures can teach us about the future...

Staff Writer - October 3, 2025

NSF is one federal agency that funds a wide range of basic science research. Nicole Fuller/National Science Foundation, CC BY

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Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it...

Staff Writer - October 4, 2025

A wider look at ethical questions around generative AI brings in much more than academic integrity. Huaxia Zhou via Getty Images

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Student cheating dominates talk of generative AI in higher ed, but...

Staff Writer - November 17, 2025

Wandering magnetic fields would have had noticeable effects for humans. Maximilian Schanner (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)

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Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth...

Staff Writer - July 15, 2025

Flux ropes (simulated, right) are structures made up of magnetic field lines wrapping around each other like a rope, that look similar to tornadoes on Earth. NOAA, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti and Chip Manchester

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‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...

Staff Writer - October 13, 2025

How do kids figure out how to sort things by order? Celeste Kidd

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Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...

Staff Writer - October 5, 2025

The Stanford linear accelerator creates super short X-ray pulses. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY

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Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

Staff Writer - October 15, 2025

James Watson was both a towering and controversial figure in science. Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images

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James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from...

Staff Writer - November 9, 2025

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EXPLORING NATURE

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, hosts a supercomputer that scientists rely on for weather and climate research. National Science Foundation

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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate...

Staff Writer - February 25, 2026

Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in...

Backcountry skiing can be risky, particularly after heavy, wet snow. AscentXmedia/E+ via Getty Images

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and...

February 19, 2026

Warmer winters in normally snowy places can interfere with the important activities of microbes in the soil. Seogi/500px via Getty Images

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the...

February 17, 2026

Coffee farming is critical to the economies of several African countries. Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images

Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes –...

February 17, 2026

Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of heat stroke on hot days, among many other human harms. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

February 12, 2026