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A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands

  • Written by Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Assistant Professor of Space and International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
imageCommercial providers like SpaceX contract with NASA to fulfill the agency's rocket launch needs. Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP

Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including launching and deploying satellites, transporting cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station, and...

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The inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America’s most famous female tiger trainer

  • Written by Alessandro Meregaglia, Associate Professor and Archivist, Boise State University
imageMabel Stark tamed tigers – and even wrestled with them.Circus and Allied Arts Collection, Illinois State University's Special Collections, Milner Library

For the sharpest minds in show business, there’s always another hustle.

Take Joe Exotic, whose 2020 conviction for a murder-for-hire plot and violations of the Endangered Species Act...

Read more: The inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America’s most famous female tiger trainer

Iran’s targeting of airport, ports and hotels in reaction to US strikes has forced Gulf nations onto front lines of a war they want no part in

  • Written by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
imageA yacht sails past a plume of smoke rising from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026.Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images

Washington’s allies in the Persian Gulf have found themselves in a position they have long sought to avoid: on the front line and bearing the brunt of a widening Middle East...

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‘Destruction is not the same as political success’: US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of endgame strategy

  • Written by Farah N. Jan, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
imageA plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran on March 2, 2026.AP Photo/Mohsen Ganji

Shortly after the opening salvo of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iranon Feb. 28, 2026 – with missiles targeting cities across the country, some of which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – President Donald Trump declared the objective was to destr...

Read more: ‘Destruction is not the same as political success’: US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing plays into Shiite Islam’s reverence for martyrs, but not for all Iranians

  • Written by Eric Lob, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
imageA banner with the image of Ali Khamenei during a memorial vigil in Tehran, Iran.Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

The day Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, the Iranian government called for 40 days of public mourning in line with Shiite tradition. It also praised thesupreme leader for his martyrdom – a concept considered sacred and significant in...

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Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient roots

  • Written by Anna Swartwood House, Associate Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina
imageArtists have represented human bodies without clothes for a very long time.Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC BY

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.

Why are so many statues naked? – Artie, age 12, Astoria, New York

We are all...

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What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere

  • Written by Susan E. Collins, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington

Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response to visible homelessness and drug use.

A few months later, in September 2025, officials in Utah announced plans for a 16-acre...

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Free 10-minute online programs aimed at overcoming depression led to real improvements – new research

  • Written by Benjamin Kaveladze, Postdoctoral Fellow in Mental Health Resources, Dartmouth College
imageFree short, easily accessible programs could allow many more people to access mental health treatments.Elena Kalinicheva/iStock via Getty Images Plus

A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Many people believe that...

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The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons

  • Written by Kevin B. Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
imageJavon Jackson, center, was able to register to vote following passage of a 2019 Nevada law that restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals.AP Photo/John Locher

If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would create the 12th-largest state. It would be home to a...

Read more: The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons

Failure of US-Iran talks was all too predictable — but turning to military strikes creates dangerous unknowns

  • Written by Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, Professor of International Relations, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageWhen it came to U.S.-Iran talks, the writing was on the wall.Mohammadali Najib/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Three rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to the two countries’ nuclear impasse lay in diplomacy, rather than military action. A perceived lack of...

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  1. Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
  2. Despite massive US attack and death of ayatollah, regime change in Iran is unlikely
  3. Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are
  4. Cuba’s speedboat shootout recalls long history of exile groups engaged in covert ops aimed at regime change
  5. Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment
  6. Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy
  7. Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood
  8. Bad Bunny says reggaeton is Puerto Rican, but it was born in Panama
  9. How the Seattle Seahawks’ sale will score a touchdown for charity 8 years after Paul Allen’s death
  10. There aren’t enough geriatricians – here’s how older adults can still get the right care
  11. Former Harvard president Summers’ soft landing after Epstein revelations is case study of economics’ trouble with misbehaving men
  12. Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?
  13. Fewer new moms are dying in Colorado – naloxone might be one reason why
  14. The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible – but they have shaped tradition for centuries
  15. How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could serve as a new energy source
  16. How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US
  17. Minneapolis united when federal immigration operations surged – reflecting a long tradition of mutual aid
  18. It’s never too late to learn a language – adults and kids bring different strengths to the task
  19. AI’s growing appetite for power is putting Pennsylvania’s aging electricity grid to the test
  20. Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion
  21. Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast
  22. The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science
  23. Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fall
  24. How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone
  25. From moral authority to risk management: How university presidents stopped speaking their minds
  26. Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios — and the research backs them up
  27. Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s
  28. Taboo tics like shouting curses and slurs are uncommon in Tourette syndrome − but people who have them suffer harsh social stigma
  29. Why does pain last longer for women? Immune cells may be the culprit
  30. Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency
  31. Honoring Colorado’s Black History requires taking the time to tell stories that make us think twice
  32. Artists and writers are often hesitant to disclose they’ve collaborated with AI – and those fears may be justified
  33. 50 years ago, the Supreme Court broke campaign finance regulation
  34. 1 protein to rule them all – why crowning the protein that makes jellyfish glow green as a model can help scientists streamline biology
  35. ‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you
  36. When civil rights protesters are killed, some deaths – generally those of white people – resonate more
  37. Florida’s proposed cuts to AIDS drug program threaten patient care and public health
  38. Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure
  39. Baptists have helped shape debate about religious freedom for over 400 years – up to today’s 10 Commandments laws
  40. Why standing in solidarity with immigrants is an act of accompaniment in Catholic philosophy
  41. Violent aftermath of Mexico’s ‘El Mencho’ killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits
  42. Crowdfunded generosity isn’t taxable – but IRS regulations haven’t kept up with the growth of mutual aid
  43. Picky eating starts in the womb – a nutritional neuroscientist explains how to expand your child’s palate
  44. What is Bluetooth and how does it work?
  45. How transparent policies can protect Florida school libraries amid efforts to ban books
  46. Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
  47. Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it
  48. Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with
  49. How Homeland Security’s subpoenas and databases of protesters threaten the ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide-open’ free speech protected by Supreme Court precedent
  50. Meekness isn’t weakness – once considered positive, it’s one of the ‘undersung virtues’ that deserve defense today