Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science
Amy Wrobleski, Penn State
Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered...
Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota; Preeti Nair, University of North Dakota; Sai Susmitha Guddanti, University of North Dakota, and Sreejith...
From ‘mail-order brides’ to ‘passport bros,’ the international dating industry often sells traditional gender roles
Julia Meszaros, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Fifteen years ago, when I started studying the international dating industry, few people took...
First Amendment in flux: When free speech protections came up against the Red Scare
Jodie Childers, University of Virginia
As the United States faces increasing incidents of book banning and threats of governmental...
Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing...
Charli Carpenter, UMass Amherst and Geraldine Santoso, UMass Amherst
As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say...
The plague of frog costumes demonstrates the subversive power of play in protests
Anya M. Galli Robertson, University of Dayton
When the center of protests against immigration enforcement switched recently to Charlotte,...
Colorado is pumping the brakes on first-of-its-kind AI regulation to find a practical path forward
Stefani Langehennig, University of Denver
When the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act passed in May 2024, it made national headlines....
$2B Counter-Strike 2 crash exposes a legal black hole: Your digital investments aren’t really yours
João Marinotti, Indiana University
In late October 2025, as much as US$2 billion vanished from a digital marketplace. This...
