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A woman mowing a lawn.

People painting their lawns is only the latest twist in the long strange American pursuit of perfect grass

By Ted Steinberg and The Conversation

Illustration of probiotic bacteria.

Hangry bacteria in your gut microbiome are linked to chronic disease—feeding them these nutrients could lead to a healthier body

By Christopher Damman and The Conversation

Graduates tossing caps into the air

Direct admission is making it easier for high school students to get into college and it can offer big benefits to schools too

By Mary L. Churchill and The Conversation

Close-up photo of someone holding and counting American dollar banknotes in her hand.

Personal Finance

One economist went on a long whimsical journey to pay his taxes with cash and prove a point about ‘legal tender’

By Jay L. Zagorsky and The Conversation

Crumpled one dollar bills on blue background

The Fed’s job to cool the labor market is working—and it will probably lead to a ‘growth recession’

By Christopher Decker and The Conversation

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