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The Villa Purificacion municipality of Jalisco, Mexico overlaid by a helicopter and .50-caliber rifle. Jesús Zavalza/Wikimedia Commons, Tim Felce (Airwolfhound)/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA; MathKnight and Zachi Evenor/Wikimedia Commons

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Guns bought in the US and trafficked to Mexican drug cartels...

Staff Writer - May 28, 2025

Sean Campbell, The Conversation and Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego The Mexican security forces tracking Nemesio Oseguera...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo is scaling up health operations to contain the Ebola epidemic. Michel Lunanga/Getty Images

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What’s wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading

Staff Writer - May 30, 2026

Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to...

When you experience something that can’t easily be explained, do you think of the supernatural? Zeferli/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist...

May 28, 2026

But women continue to die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth until one year after birth. Goodboy Picture Company/E+ Collection via Getty Images

Nearly half of maternal deaths in Pennsylvania occur more than 6...

May 27, 2026

Across the U.S., people are calling for companies to pay for the damage they have done to the environment. Alex Kent/AFP via Getty Images

The US Constitution and laws do not protect oil companies from...

May 24, 2026

This device measures acceleration and rotation by shining lasers into small clouds of rubidium atoms. Sandia National Laboratories

Quantum sensors use atoms, electrons and light as ultra‑steady rulers –...

May 20, 2026