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Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science

Amy Wrobleski, Penn State Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus a Chinese scientist pleaded guilty...

Tom W. Allen, Mississippi State University A Chinese plant scientist at the University of Michigan who drew national attention...
Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s. Bettmann via Getty Images

How mobsters’ own words brought down Philly’s mafia − a veteran...

George Anastasia, Rowan University The bloody mob war that is the focus of the new Netflix series “Mob War:...

Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing...

Susan D. Daggett, University of Denver and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, University of Denver Removing parking requirements for new buildings could...
Do the seemingly endless doorways represent a woman trapped in domesticity or infinite ways out? Philadelphia Museum of Art

How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival...

New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is...

Jonathan Larsen, Temple University; Amy Yeung, Penn State; Dennis Scanlon, Penn State, and Renee Cloutier, University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania...
Some school librarians in Florida have found themselves in the midst of controversy over complaints of “obscene” titles in their libraries. Trish233/iStock via Getty Images

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on...

James B. Blasingame, Arizona State University When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited...
The annual parade is an expression of love for both Puerto Rico and Philadelphia. Photo courtesy of VISIT PHILADELPHIA®

Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest...

Héctor M. Varela Rios, Villanova University Picture this: Puerto Rican flags, referred to as “la monoestrellada” – the “one-starred”...

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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison