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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican shortly after his election as pontiff, on May 8, 2025. AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis

Lifestyle

Pope Leo XIV: Why the College of Cardinals chose the Chicago...

Staff Writer - May 9, 2025

Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross When the 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025,...

The Catholic Church’s 115 cardinal-electors take part in a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on March 12, 2013, ahead of entering the conclave for a papal election. Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images

Art

Pope Francis filled the College of Cardinals with a diverse group...

Staff Writer - April 28, 2025

Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross Following the death of 88-year-old Pope Francis on Easter Monday, several...

A side altar with reliquary at the St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. Pope Francis has chosen to be buried in that basilica. Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images

Celebrities

What will happen at the funeral of Pope Francis

Staff Writer - April 21, 2025

Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross The 88-year-old pontiff had been well aware of his fragile state...

EXPLORING NATURE

A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Grant Maslowski

Education

Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal

Staff Writer - April 29, 2025

Logan S. James, The University of Texas at Austin; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Institution, and Ximena Bernal, Purdue University It...

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need extraordinary proof. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi

‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much...

April 27, 2025

Agricultural workers exposed to a hotter and drier climate are at an increased risk of kidney damage. George Rose/via Getty Images

Hotter and drier climate in Colorado’s San Luis Valley contributes to...

April 26, 2025

The coral reefs of Palmyra Atoll, part of Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, provide nurseries for many fish species. Andrew S. Wright/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr, CC BY-SA

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s...

April 23, 2025

Western North Carolina six months after Hurricane Helene is storm-scarred and still recovering. Sean Rayford/Getty Images

I study local government and Hurricane Helene forced me from my...

April 22, 2025