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Aaron Judge

The scientists who claim global warming is creating more home runs in baseball break down what they learned from 100,000 games

By Christopher W. Callahan, Justin S. Mankin, and others

UNITED STATES – AUGUST 15: 30mg tablets of Shire Plc’s Adderall XR are arranged in a Cambridge, Massachusetts pharmacy on Tuesday, August 15, 2006. Shire Plc shares rose after the company settled a patent lawsuit with Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., protecting Shire’s best-selling Adderall XR hyperactivity drug from cheaper rival copies until 2009. (Photo by Jb Reed/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Adderall can lead to a cycle of dependence in people who don’t really need it. For those who do, it can be a wonder drug. A neuroscientist explains why

By Habibeh Khoshbouei and The Conversation

The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish holding the yeast candida auris in a laboratory of Wuerzburg University in Wuerzburg, Germany, Jan. 23, 2018. In late March 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighted the threat posed by a rapidly spreading fungus called Candida auris that is causing infections and deaths among hospital patients across the country. The unexpected rise of this recently discovered pathogen is part of a larger trend of increasing fungal infections in the U.S.

A deadly fungus is spreading across U.S. hospitals. Here’s what you need to know, according to a physician

By Arif R. Sarwari and The Conversation

Vladimir Putin

Tinker, tailor, soldier, journalist? A media historian looks back at the blurry lines between espionage and reportage.

By Bill Kovarik and The Conversation

Nia Long, Larenz Tate

I studied ‘The Love Jones Cohort’ and found it was real: More Black Americans with higher education are choosing bachelorhood over settling down

By Kris Marsh and The Conversation

Student reporter

The local news crisis is so bad that college students are replacing statehouse reporters from ‘ghost papers’

By Richard Watts and The Conversation

Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark

How the first lady’s invitation to the losers of the women’s college basketball final kicked off a firestorm, according to a scholar of sport and race

By Joseph N. Cooper and The Conversation

Young woman walking dogs and using smartphone in urban neighborhood

Personal Finance

Apps like Venmo and Square are making it easier for the IRS to crack down on side hustles — Don’t get caught off guard on your taxes

By Erica Neuman and The Conversation

Craig Blair

Congress is allowing millions of Americans to drink toxic chemicals because it won’t regulate fracking: study

By Vivian R. Underhill, Lourdes Vera, and others

Person staring at computer

The robots are here and the pleasure seekers are going to fall in love with AI, say experts who studied machine-human bonding

By Marco Dehnert, Joris Van Ouytsel, and others

Engineer examining AI technology with reflection on eyeglasses.

Audits, ‘soft laws’ and ‘automation bias’: 3 experts break down what it could take to regulate AI and how hard it will be

By S. Shyam Sundar, Cason Schmit, and others

Close up of teenage girl in bedroom using smart phone

Eating disorders among teens have more than doubled during the pandemic. Here are the warning signs and what to do about them

By Sydney Hartman-Munick and The Conversation

WACO, TEXAS – MARCH 25: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023 in Waco, Texas. Former U.S. president Donald Trump attended and spoke at his first rally since announcing his 2024 presidential campaign. Today in Waco also marks the 30 year anniversary of the weeks deadly standoff involving Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement. 82 Davidians were killed, and four agents left dead. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

A law professor breaks down Trump’s complex legal situation and explains how this case is different than any other

By Jeffrey Bellin and The Conversation

ALLENTOWN, PA – APRIL 30: Pitcher Drew Anderson #40 of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs gets set to pitch as a pitch clock counts down during the second inning of a AAA minor league baseball game against the Syracuse Mets on April 30, 2019 at Coca Cola Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)

Baseball’s new shot clock is either a brazen sellout or remarkable piece of ignorance, says the philosopher who wrote ‘Infinite Baseball’

By Alva Noë and The Conversation

Cesar Chavez

How Cesar Chavez fused community organizing with Catholicism to become a labor icon, according to a scholar of religion

By Lloyd Daniel Barba and The Conversation