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A statue of Christopher Columbus, toppled by protesters, is loaded onto a truck on the grounds of the state capitol on June 10, 2020, in St Paul, Minn. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

culture

Politics based on grievance has a long and violent history in America

Staff Writer - June 11, 2025

Peter C. Mancall, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Recently, President Donald Trump declared that he is...

Education

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Why it’s replacing Columbus Day in many places

Staff Writer - October 9, 2021

Susan C. Faircloth, Colorado State University Columbus Day celebrations in the United States – meant to honor the legacy...

EXPLORING NATURE

A scene on the Erie Canal painted in 1842, two decades after the canal opened. Bettmann/Getty Images

Business

Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary: How a technological marvel for trade changed...

Staff Writer - October 15, 2025

Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology If you visit the Erie Canal today, you’ll find a tranquil waterway and...

Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

October 15, 2025

Flux ropes (simulated, right) are structures made up of magnetic field lines wrapping around each other like a rope, that look similar to tornadoes on Earth. NOAA, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti and Chip Manchester

‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...

October 13, 2025

Prof. Jie Huang stands with the MOF-based breathalyzer his lab developed with support from the NIH. Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T

Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning...

October 11, 2025

The quantum behavior of superconducting circuits like the small white square above was a major discovery. K. Cicak and R. Simmonds/NIST

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched...

October 9, 2025