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Bangladesh sweatshop

How the EU wants to police human rights abuses in global supply chains for every firm with 500 workers and $162 million in revenue

By Rachel Chambers, David Birchall, and others

Stressed student

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 others

Woman with cat

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 Conversation

Chinese boy in Monterey Park

How wealthy Chinese moving to America have left Chinatowns behind for a whole new neighborhood—meet the ‘ethnoburb’

By Wei Li, Yining Tan, and others

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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 Conversation

boardroom

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 Conversation

Ditlev Blicher

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 Conversation

Children on electronic devices

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 Conversation

UNITED STATES – JULY 26: From left, Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Office representative on the Defense Department’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, and retired Navy Commander David Fravor, testify during the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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 Conversation

Extreme heat

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 Conversation

Horse

Horse obesity can help us understand it in humans too, veterinary science researcher says

By Jane Manfredi and The Conversation

Greenland ice sheet

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 others

Alexa user

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 others

Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer

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 Conversation

Taylor Swift

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 Conversation