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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Tag: travel

The North Pole keeps moving – here’s how that affects Santa’s...

Scott Brame, Clemson University When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to...

America is becoming a nation of homebodies

Brian D. Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles; Eric Morris, Clemson University, and Sam Speroni, University of California, Los Angeles

Why do airlines charge so much for checked bags? This obscure...

Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University Five out of the six biggest U.S. airlines have raised their checked bag...

The sky’s the limit: A brief history of in-flight entertainment

Olusola Adewumi John, University of Regina https://narrations.ad-auris.com/widget/the-conversation-canada/the-skys-the-limit-a-brief-history-of-in-flight-entertainment As the winter holidays draw near, many of us are already booking...

Travelers will refuse an upgrade to sit near a loved one...

Ximena Garcia-Rada, Texas A&M University; Michael Norton, Harvard University, and Rebecca K. Ratner, University of Maryland The Research Brief...

What is the FAA’s NOTAM? An aviation expert explains how the...

What is NOTAM? Aviation is full of acronyms, and Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, is one acronym that...

As countries ranging from Indonesia to Mexico aim to attract digital...

Rachael A. Woldoff, West Virginia University and Robert Litchfield, Washington & Jefferson College Should your community welcome digital nomads...

D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for...

Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton Though many Americans may associate airport security with 9/11, it was a wave of...

EXPLORING NATURE

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma