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Can shoes alter your mind? What neuroscience says about foot sensation and focus

  • Written by Atom Sarkar, Professor of Neurosurgery, Drexel University
imageYour shoes might not necessarily free your mind.ksana-gribakina/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Athletic footwear has entered a new era of ambition. No longer content to promise just comfort or performance, Nike claims its shoes can activate the brain, heighten sensory awareness and even improve concentration by stimulating the bottom of your feet.

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All foods can fit in a balanced diet – a dietitian explains how flexibility can be healthier than dieting

  • Written by Charlotte Carlson, Director of the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center, Colorado State University
imageThere are no 'good' or 'bad' foods when thinking holistically about health.Halfpoint Images/Moment via Getty Images

Eat this, not that. This one food will cure everything. That food is poison. Cut this food out. Try this diet. Don’t eat at these times. Eat this food and you’ll lose weight. With society’s obsession with food,...

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NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon shows how US space strategy has changed since Apollo – and contrasts with China’s closed program

  • Written by Michelle L.D. Hanlon, Professor of Air and Space Law, University of Mississippi
imageAs part of the Artemis II mission, humans will fly around the Moon for the first time in decades. Roberto Moiola/Sysaworld via Getty Images

When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April 1970, more than 40 million people around the world watched the United States recover from a potential catastrophe. An oxygen tank explosion turned a planned...

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Repeated government lying, warned Hannah Arendt, makes it impossible for citizens to think and to judge

  • Written by Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University
imageDespite evidence to the contrary, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a Jan. 24, 2026, news conference that Alex Pretti 'came with a weapon ... and attacked' officers, who took action to 'defend their lives.'AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson

In Minneapolis, two recent fatal encounters with federal immigration agents have produced not...

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Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment

  • Written by Andrea Katz, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
imageFederal immigration officers are seen outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 12, 2026.AP Photo/Jen Golbeck

A federal judge heard arguments on Jan. 26, 2026, as the state of Minnesota sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state. The...

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Groundhogs are lousy forecasters but valuable animal engineers – and an important food source

  • Written by Steven Sullivan, Director of the Hefner Museum of Natural History, Miami University
imageMarmot chomping and digging can keep trees at bay and fields flower-filled.DieterMeyrl/E+ via Getty Images

Whether you call him groundhog, woodchuck, whistle-pig or use the full genus and species name, Marmota monax, the nation’s premiere animal weather forecaster has been making headlines as Punxsutawney Phil for decades.

The largest ground...

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A more complete Latin American history, including centuries of US influence, helps students understand the complexities surrounding Nicolás Maduro’s arrest

  • Written by Lightning Jay, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageA woman shows a portrait of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a demonstration in Caracas on Jan. 21, 2026. Pedro Mattey/AFP via Getty Images

Many of our college freshman students will have seen and read about the Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. military operation in Venezuela that culminated in the arrest of its leader, Nicolás...

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Ending tax refunds by check will speed payments, but risks sidelining people who don’t have bank accounts

  • Written by Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University

More than 6 million Americans receive paper tax refund checks annually. Often, those refunds go to purchase groceries or pay the bills. But this year, those taxpayers may be surprised to learn that the paper check they’re waiting for no longer exists.

That’s because of executive order 14247, which President Donald Trump signed in 2025....

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US hospitality and tourism professors don’t mirror the demographics of the industry they serve

  • Written by Michael D. Caligiuri, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
imageTourists are diverse. Are tourism professors?Grant Baldwin/Getty Images

White and male professors continue to dominate U.S. hospitality and tourism education programs, our new research has found, even as the industry is growing increasingly diverse. This imbalance raises questions about who shapes the future of hospitality and whose voices are left...

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Where do seashells come from?

  • Written by Michal Kowalewski, Thompson Chair of Invertebrate Paleontology, University of Florida

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

Where do seashells come from? – Ivy, age 5, Phoenix, Arizona

Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted.

Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch...

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  2. How Trump’s Greenland threats amount to an implicit rejection of the legal principles of Nuremberg
  3. Artificial metacognition: Giving an AI the ability to ‘think’ about its ‘thinking’
  4. Political polarization in Pittsburgh communities is rooted in economic neglect − not extremism
  5. What we get wrong about forgiveness – a counseling professor unpacks the difference between letting go and making up
  6. Rebirth of the madman theory? Unpredictability isn’t what it was when it comes to foreign policy
  7. Why too much phosphorus in America’s farmland is polluting the country’s water
  8. Marine protected areas aren’t in the right places to safeguard dolphins and whales in the South Atlantic
  9. How the polar vortex and warm ocean are intensifying a major US winter storm
  10. How the polar vortex and warm ocean intensified a major US winter storm
  11. ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north
  12. ‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge
  13. Dogs can need more than kibble, walks and love − consider the escalating expenses of their medical care before you adopt
  14. Your brain can be trained, much like your muscles – a neurologist explains how to boost your brain health
  15. Rheumatoid arthritis has no cure – but researchers are homing in on preventing it
  16. Feeling unprepared for the AI boom? You’re not alone
  17. Is being virtuous good for you – or just people around you? A study suggests traits like compassion may support your own well-being
  18. Doing things alone is on the rise, and businesses should pay more attention to that – even on Valentine’s Day
  19. Dealing with a difficult relationship? Here’s how psychology says you can shift the dynamic
  20. The rise of Reza Pahlavi: Iranian opposition leader or opportunist?
  21. AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
  22. ‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society
  23. Trump’s insistence on personal loyalty from ambassadors could crimp US foreign policy
  24. Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon
  25. Lebanon’s orchards have been burnt, wildlife habitat destroyed by Israeli strikes – raising troubling international law questions
  26. Companies are already using agentic AI to make decisions, but governance is lagging behind
  27. US turns its back on global efforts for women and children terrorized by violence and conflict
  28. A government can choose to investigate the killing of a protester − or choose to blame the victim and pin it all on ‘domestic terrorism’
  29. When it comes to developing policies on AI in K-12, schools are largely on their own
  30. Bearing witness after the witnesses are gone: How to bring Holocaust education home for a new generation
  31. From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace
  32. Antibiotic resistance could undo a century of medical progress – but four advances are changing the story
  33. Filming ICE is legal but exposes you to digital tracking – here’s how to minimize the risk
  34. Federal immigration enforcement near schools disrupts attendance, traumatizes students and damages their academic performance
  35. America’s next big clean energy resource could come from coal mine pollution – if we can agree on who owns it
  36. Despite its steep environmental costs, AI might also help save the planet
  37. Why ‘unwinding’ with screens may be making us more stressed – here’s what to try instead
  38. America’s next big critical minerals source could be coal mine pollution – if we can agree on who owns it
  39. The only thing limiting Taylor Swift’s popularity is partisan polarization
  40. Trump’s stated reasons for taking Greenland are wrong – but the tactics fit with the plan to limit China’s economic interests
  41. The world is in water bankruptcy, UN scientists report – here’s what that means
  42. AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research
  43. What ‘hope’ has represented in Christian history – and what it might mean now
  44. Some hard-earned lessons from Detroit on how to protect the safety net for community partners in research
  45. Iran’s universities have long been a battleground, where protests happen and students fight for the future
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  47. What air pollution does to the human body
  48. What triumphalist narratives about Brazil’s high court and Bolsonaro imprisonment leave out
  49. What a bear attack in a remote valley in Nepal tells us about the problem of aging rural communities
  50. Opera is not dying – but it needs a second act for the streaming era