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For many people, it’s easy to defend misinformation if they think it serves a larger truth. moodboard/Connect Images via Getty Images

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Voters’ ‘moral flexibility’ helps them defend politicians’ misinformation − if they believe the inaccurate info speaks to a larger truth

Staff Writer - September 14, 2024

Not as many people will get the chance to vote in 2025 compared with the previous year. MicroStockHub/Getty Images

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5 elections to watch in 2025

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Craft breweries are fermenting change, addressing local ills while serving local ales

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Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – receding waters narrow options for cooling

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Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a hate crime

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Rifts between older mothers and their adult children usually endure –...

Staff Writer - January 3, 2022

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Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains −...

Staff Writer - April 19, 2024

Republicans and Democrats tend to have children at around the same rates and ages and to view parenthood in a similar way. iStock / Getty Images Plus

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‘Childless cat ladies’ is a political catchphrase that doesn’t match reality...

Staff Writer - October 15, 2024

More than 1,000 Nepalis were ‘disappeared’ during the decade-long civil war. AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha

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Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to...

Staff Writer - September 22, 2024

Hurricane Helene flooded homes with water and mud in Marshall, N.C. Many people will be out of their homes for months or longer. AP Photo/Jeff Roberson

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People displaced by hurricanes face anxiety and a long road to...

Staff Writer - October 15, 2024

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What are the principles of civilian immunity in war? A scholar...

Staff Writer - January 21, 2024

Singer Justin Bieber is seen on May 16, 2024, in Los Angeles. BG046/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

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Men are carrying the brunt of the ‘loneliness epidemic’ amid potent...

Staff Writer - September 20, 2024

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What will 2022 bring in the way of misinformation on social...

Staff Writer - December 27, 2021

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3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...

Staff Writer - December 23, 2024

Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...

The giant panda’s diet is almost 100% bamboo. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...

December 22, 2024

Dark comets accelerate through space but don’t have a dusty tail like most comets. Adina Feinstein and NASA’s Earth Observatory

2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell...

December 22, 2024

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Octopuses and their relatives are a new animal welfare frontier −...

December 21, 2024

Animals with long lifespans tend to reproduce extremely slowly. Els Vermeulen

Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential...

December 20, 2024