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How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives
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Your gut microbes can be anti-aging – scientists are uncovering how to keep your microbiome youthful
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Florida’s immigrant entrepreneurs are creating jobs and prosperity in their communities
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When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years
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From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers
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TrumpRx, Trump Kennedy Center, Trump National Parks passes − government free speech allows the president to name things after himself
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I asked students whether they’d want to be teachers? They quickly responded, ‘Why would I?’
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How deregulation made electricity more expensive, not cheaper
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Iran-US nuclear talks may fail due to both nations’ red lines – but that doesn’t make them futile
1,512 words | Stand-alone story
23 hours since upload  | Published: 02/17/2026
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3 generations of Black Philadelphia students report persistent anti-Black attitudes in schools
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23 hours since upload  | Published: 02/17/2026
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New dietary guidelines prioritize ‘real food’ – but low-income pregnant women can’t easily obtain it
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23 hours since upload  | Published: 02/17/2026
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Revisiting the story of Clementine Barnabet, a Black woman blamed for serial murders in the Jim Crow South
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In World War II’s dog-eat-dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order
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23 hours since upload  | Published: 02/17/2026
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Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why
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23 hours since upload  | Published: 02/17/2026
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How Jesse Jackson was shaped by Southern segregation − and went on to reshape American political life
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Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub
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1 day since upload  | Published: 02/16/2026
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How do people know their interests? The shortest player in the NBA shows how self-belief matters more than biology
1,152 words | Stand-alone story
2 days since upload  | Published: 02/16/2026
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White men file workplace discrimination claims but are less likely to face inequity than other groups
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Atrocities take place in democratic nations as well as autocratic ones – our database has logged them all
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Africa’s trade blocs were designed to unite the continent: four reasons they haven’t delivered
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Climate change could expose 1.1 billion people to hunger by 2100 (but there’s good news too) – AI modelling study
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2 days since upload  | Published: 02/16/2026
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Why are Americans fighting over no-fault divorce? Maybe they can’t agree what marriage is for
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3 days since upload  | Published: 02/15/2026
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Why Ramadan is called Ramadan: 6 questions answered
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3 days since upload  | Published: 02/15/2026
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Sturgis rally crash deaths: What 2000–2025 patterns suggest about where riders die
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Why Muslim American nonprofits are taking steps to build trust with donors during Ramadan
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4 days since upload  | Published: 02/14/2026
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Why do hammerhead sharks have hammer-shaped heads?
1,019 words | Stand-alone story
4 days since upload  | Published: 02/14/2026
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Decluttering can be stressful − a clinical psychologist explains how personal values can make it easier
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4 days since upload  | Published: 02/14/2026
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How a largely forgotten Supreme Court case can help prevent an executive branch takeover of federal elections
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1 day since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
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5 days since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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Are women board members risk averse or agents of innovation? It’s complicated, new research shows
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5 days since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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The intensity and perfectionism that drive Olympic athletes also put them at high risk for eating disorders
1,431 words | Stand-alone story
5 days since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories
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5 days since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?
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5 days since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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Colorectal cancer is increasing among young people, as James Van Der Beek’s death reminds us – cancer experts explain ways to decrease your risk
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5 days since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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Counter-drone technologies are evolving – but there’s no surefire way to defend against drone attacks
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5 days since upload  | Published: 02/13/2026
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Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE America Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote
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1 day since upload  | Published: 02/12/2026
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Cement has a climate problem — here’s how geopolymers with add-ins like cork could help fix it
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3 days since upload  | Published: 02/12/2026
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise
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5 days since upload  | Published: 02/12/2026
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Eden Prairie residents press council to bar ICE from city property
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6 days since upload  | Published: 02/12/2026
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FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application - for reasons with no basis in the law
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Nearly every state in the US has dyslexia laws – but our research shows limited change for struggling readers
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6 days since upload  | Published: 02/12/2026
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How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
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How business students learn to make ethical decisions by studying a soup kitchen in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods
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Exiled Iranians and Venezuelans may well support regime change – but diasporas don’t always reflect the politics back home
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Addiction affects your brain as well as your body – that’s why detoxing is just the first stage of recovery
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More than a feeling – thinking about love as a virtue can change how we respond to hate
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
1,195 words | Stand-alone story
6 days since upload  | Published: 02/12/2026
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Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry
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Trump administration losing credibility with judges and grand juries – a former federal judge explains why this is ‘remarkable and unprecedented’
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6 days since upload  | Published: 02/11/2026
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Living in space can change where your brain sits in your skull – new research
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6 days since upload  | Published: 02/11/2026
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