By Jason Miller, Assistant Lecturer, North Carolina State University
Many music fans know that Nina Simone’s 1965 hit “I Put a Spell on You” helped establish the 32-year-old singer as the “High Priestess of Soul.”
Few probably realize that it was Langston…
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By Sophya Garashchuk, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina
The objects you interact with every day are predictable – you can pick up a box, sit down in a chair without falling to the floor, or open a door without your hand passing through the knob. But if you zoom in on these objects all the way to the quantum level – where you look at the individual atoms – you’ll find that things start to behave somewhat strangely.
The typical size of quantum…
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By Claire Therese Hemingway, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee; Smithsonian Institution
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by menu options at a restaurant, cereal varieties at the grocery store or potential partners while scrolling through dating apps, you’ve experienced choice overload.
People aren’t the only ones to have trouble making decisions when confronted with many options simultaneously. In our new study published in the journal iScience, my colleagues and I found similar effects of choice overload…
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By Timothy Randhir, Professor of Environmental Sciences, UMass Amherst
The stories of a whale, a panther and a butterfly help explain why new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act could be catastrophic for species’ survival.
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By Mark Satta, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
When the Supreme Court hears arguments in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, Colorado will defend antidiscrimination laws for the fourth time in 10 years.
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By Human Rights Watch
Nebraska’s efforts to implement new, federally mandated work requirements for Medicaid underscore fears that millions of people will experience avoidable barriers to healthcare coverage.Federal authorities could have chosen to blunt the impact of the federal legislation’s Medicaid cuts. Instead, they added even more convoluted requirements that will deprive people of health care they are entitled to.Nebraska is the canary in the coal mine for issues that most states will face when they begin implementing these work requirements. As they do, they should make sure red tape doesn’t strip people of…
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By Asiye Uyghur
Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance.
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By Steven Leib, Associate Professor in Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
Guido Carim Junior, Associate Professor in Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
A core tenet of aviation security is keeping threats out of the cockpit. What happens if the danger is one of the pilots?
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By Ran Porat, Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
Netanyahu was quick to incorporate the plane attack into his campaign by posting videos and images on his social media accounts.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Will the Coalition take a robust agenda on industrial relations to the 2028 election? Jane Hume’s speech did not provide an answer.
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