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Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet’s most famous images

  • Written by Christopher Schaberg, Director of Public Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis
imageThe icon has various iterations, but all convey the same meaning: an image should be here.Christopher Schaberg, CC BY-SA

It’s happened to you countless times: You’re waiting for a website to load, only to see a box with a little mountain range where an image should be. It’s the placeholder icon for a “missing image.”

Bu...

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Recent studies prove the ancient practice of nasal irrigation is effective at fighting the common cold

  • Written by Mary J. Scourboutakos, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
imageNasal irrigation can help shorten the duration of the common cold.SimpleImages/Moment via Getty Images

It starts with a slight scratchiness at the back of your throat.

Then, a sneeze.

Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable days.

Viral upper respiratory tract infections – also known as the co...

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SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development

  • Written by Jenalee Doom, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
imageBeing able to buy nutritious groceries is essential for your family's health.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are children under 18. This food aid helps their families buy groceries and boosts their health in many ways – both during...

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Trump’s proposed cuts to work study threaten to upend a widely supported program that helps students offset college costs

  • Written by Samantha Hicks, Assistant Vice President of Financial Aid and Scholarships, Coastal Carolina University
imageWork-study students often still have unmet financial needs, even after their 15- to 20-hour-per-week jobs fill in some of the gaps. champpix/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Work study works, doesn’t it?

Federal work study is a government program that gives colleges and universities approximately US$1 billion in subsidies each year to help pay...

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Can the world quit coal?

  • Written by Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor of Global Governance & Human Security, UMass Boston
imageA fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023.Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at the 30th annual United Nations climate conference, there is plenty of frustration that the world isn’t making progress on climate...

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Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress

  • Written by Nicole West Bassoff, Posdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Policy, University of Virginia
imageNew York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 8, 2025.AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo

After a decisive election win, Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York on Jan. 1, 2026. His impressive grassroots campaign made big promises targeted at working-class New Yorkers: universal child care, rent freezes and...

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Supply-chain delays, rising equipment prices threaten electricity grid

  • Written by Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
imageHigh-voltage power lines run through an electrical substation in Florida.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Two new data centers in Silicon Valley have been built but can’t begin processing information: The equipment that would supply them with electricity isn’t available.

It’s just one example of a crisis facing the U.S. power grid that...

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How a Colorado law school dug into its history to celebrate its unsung Black graduates

  • Written by Rebecca Ciota, Assistant Teaching Professor, Law School, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThe first known Black law student at the University of Colorado is pictured in a class photo from 1899.Courtesy of the University of Colorado Law School.

Class portraits line the hallways of the University of Colorado Law School, the faces of former students gazing down at the building’s current inhabitants. In a dimly lit recess in the...

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How the Plymouth Pilgrims took over Thanksgiving – and who history left behind

  • Written by Thomas Tweed, Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History, University of Notre Dame
image'The First Thanksgiving, 1621,' by Jean L. G. Ferris.Library of Congress

Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention.

But as a historian of religion, I feel obliged to recount how popular interpretations of Thanksgiving...

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What’s a ‘black box’ warning? A pharmacologist explains how these labels protect patients

  • Written by C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
imageBlack box warnings can influence whether or not clinicians decide to prescribe a drug.SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

A “black box” warning on a health product sounds pretty scary – maybe even more so when it’s suddenly being taken off the packaging.

Americans were reminded of this type of public health messaging on Nov....

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  3. Global companies are still committing to protect the climate – and they’re investing big money in clean tech
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  5. ‘Simulation theory’ brings an AI twist out of ‘The Matrix’ to ideas mystics and religious scholars have voiced for centuries
  6. Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party
  7. NASA goes on an ESCAPADE – twin small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars’ atmosphere
  8. The rise of the autistic detective – why neurodivergent minds are at the heart of modern mysteries
  9. The shutdown has ended – but this economist isn’t rejoicing quite yet
  10. What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus a Chinese scientist pleaded guilty to smuggling into the US?
  11. No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming
  12. New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype
  13. What is time? Rather than something that ‘flows,’ a philosopher suggests time is a psychological projection
  14. Turn shopping stress into purposeful gift giving by cultivating ‘consumer wisdom’ during the holidays
  15. Community health centers provide care for 1 in 10 Americans, but funding cuts threaten their survival
  16. Bad Bunny is the latest product of political rage — how pop culture became the front line of American politics
  17. Sulfur-based batteries could offer electric vehicles a greener, longer-range option
  18. Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
  19. Colorado’s rural schools serve more than 130,000 students, and their superintendents want more pay for their teachers
  20. Students of color are at greater risk for reading difficulties – even in kindergarten
  21. Under Ron DeSantis’ leadership, Florida leads the nation in executions in 2025
  22. The UN is reinventing peacekeeping – Haiti is the testing ground
  23. Star-shaped cells make a molecule that can ‘rewire’ the brains of mice with Down syndrome – understanding how could lead to new treatments
  24. Electric fields steered nanoparticles through a liquid-filled maze – this new method could improve drug delivery and purification systems
  25. Blame the shutdown on citizens who prefer politicians to vanquish their opponents rather than to work for the common good
  26. A bold new investment fund aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – one key change can make it better
  27. Canada loses its official ‘measles-free’ status – and the US will follow soon, as vaccination rates fall
  28. What America’s divided and tumultuous politics of the late-19th century can teach us
  29. The ‘supercenter’ effect: How massive, one-stop retailers fuel overconsumption − and waste
  30. What does ‘pro-life’ mean? There’s no one answer – even for advocacy groups that oppose abortion
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  36. James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition
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  41. FDA recall of blood pressure pills due to cancer-causing contaminant may point to higher safety risks in older generic drugs
  42. Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation
  43. House speaker’s refusal to seat Arizona representative is supported by history and law
  44. Overwhelm the public with muzzle-velocity headlines: A strategy rooted in racism and authoritarianism
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