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Stressed student
Success
Taking out student loans makes you unhealthier than your debt-free peers, groundbreaking study of 3,200 college kids finds
By Arielle Kuperberg, Joan Maya Mazelis and The ConversationAugust 5, 2023
Woman with cat
Life
Cats moved in with us thousands of years ago and now number in the billions. A biologist explains how they did it without even evolving
By Jonathan Losos and The ConversationAugust 5, 2023
Chinese boy in Monterey Park
Success
How wealthy Chinese moving to America have left Chinatowns behind for a whole new neighborhood—meet the ‘ethnoburb’
By Wei Li, Yining Tan and The ConversationAugust 1, 2023
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Politics
The author of ‘Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect’ explains why American culture fixates more on him than the horror of Hiroshima
By Charles Thorpe and The ConversationAugust 1, 2023
boardroom
Tech
Neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns information explains why A.I. would be the ‘perfect psychopath’ in an executive role
By Guillaume Thierry and The ConversationJuly 31, 2023
Ditlev Blicher
Europe
Maersk, Evergreen and the world’s largest shipping companies are changing as the climate does. Here’s how they’re turning the ocean liner around
By Don Maier and The ConversationJuly 28, 2023
Children on electronic devices
Health
Why governments are the only solution to the explosion of child obesity as 124 million struggle with processed foods and sedentary modern life
By Kathleen Trejo Tello and The ConversationJuly 28, 2023
An astronomer who’s part of a group planning to talk to aliens ‘should the need ever arise’ breaks down the bombshell UFO testimony in Congress
Politics
An astronomer who’s part of a group planning to talk to aliens ‘should the need ever arise’ breaks down the bombshell UFO testimony in Congress
By The ConversationJuly 28, 2023
Extreme heat
Environment
It’s not just climate change: Here’s how El Niño and a huge underwater volcanic eruption led to extreme heat in 2023, from an expert who’s mapped various sections of the Earth
By Michael Wysession and The ConversationJuly 27, 2023
Horse
Health
Horse obesity can help us understand it in humans too, veterinary science researcher says
By Jane Manfredi and The ConversationJuly 25, 2023
Greenland ice sheet
Environment
The scientists who figured out exactly when Greenland was ice-free reveal what it shows about our warming planet
By Paul Bierman, Tammy Rittenour and The ConversationJuly 24, 2023
Alexa user
Tech
You can see the big problem with A.I. when you use Alexa, say concerned Harvard professors. Just ask if Amazon is a monopoly
By Bruce Schneier, Nathan Sanders and The ConversationJuly 24, 2023
Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer
Politics
How Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb secrets were really stolen by Soviet Russia, as revealed by a Harvard Kennedy School professor
By Calder Walton and The ConversationJuly 24, 2023
Taylor Swift
Politics
From Pennsylvania’s ‘Swiftsburgh’ to New Jersey’s ‘Taylor Swift Ham, Egg and Cheese,’ politicians are capitalizing on the Eras tour
By Matt Harris and The ConversationJuly 24, 2023
Man in glider
Tech
ChatGPT is not a search engine. Here’s why you should think of it as a ‘glider’ to get better results, says engineer with Harvard PhD in neuroscience
By James Intriligator and The ConversationJuly 24, 2023
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