By Charlotte Carlson, Director of the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center, Colorado State University
Social media and advertising is full of messages about what you should or shouldn’t eat. But making health and nutrition so black and white can do more harm than good.
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By Andrea De Stefano, Assistant Professor of Forestry, Mississippi State University
One of North America’s richest ecosystems, sustained and shaped by Native peoples before European contact, nearly disappeared. A recovery is underway.
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By Steven Goldsmith, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Villanova University
Excess road and sidewalk salt flows into storm drains and ultimately into area streams and rivers, affecting fish and other aquatic organisms.
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By Richie Zweigenhaft, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Guilford College
The slight decrease in diversity in corporate boardrooms in 2025 comes as the Trump administration and its allies have pushed to unwind diversity initiatives.
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By Steven R. Fassnacht, Professor of Snow Hydrology, Colorado State University
Michael Childers, Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
Winter Storm Fern brought Colorado’s mountain towns a bit of what they’ve spent weeks hoping for.
It snowed 23 inches (58 centimeters) at the Crested Butte ski resort over the weekend of Jan. 24-25, 2026. Aspen Snowmass got 13 inches (33 cm).
It was a welcome change in Colorado, where…
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By Linnéa Chapman, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Florida International University
How would you feel if someone gave you a gym membership as a holiday or Valentine’s Day gift?
What about Botox?
Laser hair removal?
Services like those are part of the estimated US$48 billion self-improvement industry. Does this suggest that many people would appreciate self-improvement gifts?
Retailers seem to think so.
The Planet Fitness chain of gyms encourages buying workout…
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By Katie Edwards, Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
Sharp, solid stones form inside the human body more often than you might think. Watch and listen to episode two of The Conversation’s Strange Health podcast to find out how, where, and why.
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By Mong Palatino
"This program was not cancelled because it was unlawful, but because an environment was created in which reckless rhetoric, misinformation and fear-mongering made it unsafe for people to gather."
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Relatives of a person who went missing after a migrant boat sank on February 26 on the beach near where the shipwreck took place off the coast of Steccato di Cutro, near Crotone, in Calabria in southern Italy. March 7, 2023. © 2023 Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan, January 27, 2026) – The trial, due to start this week, of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is an important opportunity for justice for deaths of migrants and asylum seekers at sea, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial, following…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A week out from the resumption of parliament, the federal opposition is in a state of paralysis.
The Liberals have a full-blown leadership crisis. A majority of the party believe Sussan Ley can’t survive for long.
But leadership contenders Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie, both from the right of the party, don’t want to run against each other, dividing their factional support. They’re in a wrestle, each wanting the other to pull back.
Taylor trails his coat while keeping formally within the rules. He won’t confirm he is after Ley’s job, pleading shadow cabinet…
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