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Leaders attend the 45th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Kuwait City, Kuwait on Dec.01, 2024. Amiri Diwan of Kuwait/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images

Politics

Gulf state cooperation has long been shaped by the threat of Iran − but shows of unity belie division

Staff Writer - May 4, 2026

Barbed wire surrounds the GEO Group ICE detention facility in Adelanto, Calif. on July 10, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Politics

When immigration detention becomes a system of concentration: Lessons from research on 150 historical cases

Gas prices were well over $4 a gallon on April 28, 2026, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Politics

What’s in the price of a gallon of gas?

The U.K. Parliament passed legislation in an effort to control spiraling rental costs and reverse rising homelessness rates. Matt Cardy/Getty Image

Politics

England’s ‘once in a generation’ housing law takes effect as US housing legislation sits in congressional purgatory

The Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz has largely brought oil traffic to a halt, hitting petroleum-exporting countries hard. Asghar Besharati / Getty Images

Politics

The US has long used economic coercion to achieve foreign policy goals — the war in Iran shows how that power has declined

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer is one of the world’s fastest. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, CC BY

Politics

Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation

Staff Writer - May 14, 2025

Cities like Houston get high humidity in addition to the heat, making summer almost unbearable without cooling. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Politics

Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends...

Staff Writer - May 13, 2025

Trade opportunities ahead. Kschulze/Getty Images

Politics

If you really want to close the US trade deficit, try...

Staff Writer - May 12, 2025

A member of the Indian Border Security Force stands guard near the India-Pakistan border. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images

Politics

India-Pakistan ceasefire shouldn’t disguise fact that norms have changed in South...

Staff Writer - May 11, 2025

Getting into Harvard University is hard, and so is getting rid of its charitable status. Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Politics

Can Trump strip Harvard of its charitable status? Scholars of nonprofit...

Staff Writer - May 10, 2025

Brain organoids, pictured here, raise both many medical possibilities and ethical questions. NIAID/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Art

Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety...

Staff Writer - May 10, 2025

A mosque lies in ruins after an Indian airstrike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on May 7, 2025. Zubair Abbasi/Middle East Images//AFP via Getty Images

Politics

Missile strikes and drone attacks heighten South Asian crisis – 8...

Staff Writer - May 9, 2025

The Take It Down bill, co-authored by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, easily passed both houses of Congress. President Trump is expected to sign it into law. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Politics

How the Take It Down Act tackles nonconsensual deepfake porn −...

Staff Writer - May 9, 2025

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EXPLORING NATURE

Seagrass has made an unexpected return to Mosquito Lagoon. Captain William B. Wolfson, Grassroots Guide Service, New Smyrna Beach, FL

Environment

Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback

Staff Writer - April 22, 2026

Stephanie Insalaco-Wyner, Southwestern University and Hannah V. Herrero, University of Tennessee Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem...

A German security guard checks for radiation after the Chernobyl accident in April 1986. Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation...

April 22, 2026

A long-running experiment is testing tree mixes to develop the healthiest forests. Mickey Pullen/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

April 21, 2026

People tend to be offended when they get a personal note written by AI – if they know. Ekaterina Buravleva/iStock via Getty Images

Most people do not realize when a personal message they receive...

April 20, 2026

Cannabis plants are seen at Harborside Oakland Dispensary on Aug. 11, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Why the future of marijuana legalization remains hazy despite high public support

April 18, 2026