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  • Gambling appPersonal Finance

    A psychologist who’s been treating gambling addicts for over a decade reveals how sports betting apps really hook you

    By Meredith K. Ginley and The Conversation
  • A husband comforts his wife.Health

    A doctor explains how centuries of trauma and inequality led up to Native American life expectancy dropping by 6.5 years during COVID pandemic

    By Allison Kelliher and The Conversation
  • Four sports celebrities standing together.Personal Finance

    In just 5 years sports betting has transformed into a $13 billion industry—but there’s a danger

    By John Affleck and The Conversation
  • CommutingSuccess

    You need to detach and ‘psychologically recover’ from work, professors say. Commuting is a ‘liminal space’ where that can happen

    By Matthew Piszczek, Kristie McAlpine, and others
  • A doctor using a stethoscope to examining senior woman's lung and heartbeat during a healthcare home visit.Health

    Lung cancer rates in women have skyrocketed 79% over the last few decades—and many of them aren’t even smokers

    By Estelamari Rodriguez and The Conversation
  • A red car in an empty parking lot.Environment

    Cars have a death grip on American cities—but a new movement against parking spaces is starting to gain traction

    By Kevin J. Krizek, John Hersey, and others
  • Newt Gingrich and Bill ClintonFinance

    A Harvard professor who helped Bill Clinton balance the budget in the 1990s says Kevin McCarthy will struggle to keep that promise

    By Linda J. Bilmes and The Conversation
  • Female doctor talking about medical test to her patients at hospitalHealth

    Automatic enrollment was an absolute game changer for Medicaid—It’s about to expire and up to 14 million Americans could be left out in the cold

    By Mark Shepard and The Conversation
  • Mark Zuckerberg.Tech

    Big Tech layoffs have claimed 70,000 jobs in the last year and it could put an end to inflated salaries—along with innovation

    By Nathalie Collins, Jeff Volkheimer, and others
  • In his videos, Liver King is regularly seen eating platefuls of bull’s testicles, raw animal livers and cows’ brains. Instagram/@LiverKingHealth

    The rise and fall of the Liver King—a social media sensation who is now being sued by his followers for $25 million

    By Catalina Goanta and The Conversation
  • A close-up portrait view of a North American beaverEnvironment

    Scientists say that oysters and beavers are the eco heroes we’ve been waiting for and they’re doing all the work ‘for free’

    By Daniel Merino, Nehal El-Hadi, and others
  • A robot holding a tabletTech

    ChatGPT might be taking over the internet, but a computer scientist explains why some problems are still too hard to solve—even for AI

    By Jie Wang and The Conversation
  • Kevin McCarthyFinance

    How bad is the debt ceiling stand-off in Congress? Like potential collapse of the dollar as global ‘unit of account’ bad, economist says.

    By Michael Humphries and The Conversation
  • Two ravens sitting together.Success

    Pandering to an audience of ravens and spying like a fish: Animals have all sorts of sophisticated ways to maintain power in the wild

    By Lee Alan Dugatkin and The Conversation
  • Young farmer walking in field at sunset.Success

    Two economists who study rural America say official inflation numbers don’t count people who live outside of cities—and their own analysis shows that they could be suffering more

    By Stephen Weiler, Tessa Conroy, and others