4 creative ways to engage children in STEM over the summer: Tips to foster curiosity and problem-solving at home

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The Trump administration is reshaping the pursuit of science through federal cuts to research grants and the Department of Education. This will have real consequences for students interested in science, technology,...

Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

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Living in todays age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and unreachable world. And...

Golden Dome dangers: An arms control expert explains how Trump’s missile defense threatens to make the US less safe

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President Donald Trumps idea of a Golden Dome missile defense system carries a range of potential strategic dangers for the United States. Golden Dome is meant to protect the U.S. from ballistic, cruise and hypersonic...

Beyond de-extinction and dire wolves, gene editing can help today’s endangered species

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Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after a character from his...

‘The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop’ sings one last encore from beyond the grave

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Several years ago, an employee at Universal Music came across a cassette tape in a Tokyo warehouse while sorting through archival materials. On it was a recording by the late Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng that had never...

US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities, and that’s no accident – a public health historian explains how the system was shaped to serve profit and politicians

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A few years ago, a student in my history of public health course asked why her mother couldnt afford insulin without insurance, despite having a full-time job. I told her what Ive come to believe: The U.S. health care...

Debates over presidential power to suspend habeas corpus resurface in Trump administration

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The principle of habeas corpus, a legal phrase, is a simple one: Translated from the Latin as produce the body, it provides that a judge may compel prosecutors to supply evidence to determine whether someone has been...