When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping...
Nicole M. Bennett, Indiana University
When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely...
How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come
Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Tim Komatsu, UMass Amherst
During the 2016 presidential election campaign, candidate Donald...
American capitalism is being remade by state power
H. Sami Karaca, Boston University
Is the Trump administration trying to reshape American capitalism? Recent moves by Washington, such...
Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case for life around...
Juliette Becker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen...
We’ve been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there...
Jody L. Herman, University of California, Los Angeles and Andrew Ryan Flores, American University
Researchers have traditionally had a...
Pregnant women face tough choices about medication use due to lack of safety data...
Almut Winterstein, University of Florida and Sonja Rasmussen, Johns Hopkins University
A panel convened in July 2025 by the...
How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers
Shari Edelson, Penn State and B. Derrick Taff, Penn State
If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who...
Balancing kratom’s potential benefits and risks − new legislation in Colorado seeks to minimize harm
David Kroll, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
David Bregger had never heard of kratom before his son, Daniel,...
