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Faced with Trump’s tariffs − and crackdowns on migration and narcotrafficking − Mexico is weighing retaliatory options

  • Written by Scott Morgenstern, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Donald Trump has made clear his intent to supercharge his “America First” approach to foreign policy in his second term – and Mexico looks set to be at the tip of the spear.

While many of Trump’s predecessors have also followed a “realist” strategy – that is, one where relative power is at the forefront of...

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NASA’s micro-mission Lunar Trailblazer will make macro-measurements of the lunar surface in 2025

  • Written by César León Jr., Ph.D. Student of Planetary Geology, Washington University in St. Louis
imageLunar Trailblazer is planned to launch in early 2025.Lockheed Martin Space

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission.

Artemis II will utilize NASA’s Space Launch System, which is an extremely powerful...

Read more: NASA’s micro-mission Lunar Trailblazer will make macro-measurements of the lunar surface in 2025

Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting – a philosopher shares 3 strategies to help you attain the good life

  • Written by Lorraine Besser, Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury
imageApproaching your regular day with a new mindset can send you in an interesting direction.d3sign/Moment via Getty Images

Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get to school. You’ve got to get to work. And, of course, your ever-growing to-do...

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What if you could rank food by ‘healthiness’ as you shopped? Nutrient profiling systems use algorithms to simplify picking healthy groceries

  • Written by Christopher Damman, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageCertain amounts and types of food processing can diminish the nutritional value of the original ingredients.Deanna Kelly/Moment via Getty Images

Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world already exists.

Nutrient profiling systems, or NPSs,...

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5 elections to watch in 2025

  • Written by Lisandro Claudio, Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

The coming 12 months can’t promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the world’s population headed to the polls. Still, voters will cast ballots in several important elections throughout the year – and many of the themes persist: the impact of inflation, the rise of the populist...

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New Year’s Eve celebrates St. Silvester – the 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church and state

  • Written by Cavan W. Concannon, Professor of Religion and Classics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageA mosaic of St. Silvester baptizing Emperor Constantine, from the Basilica Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.Peter1936F/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark the feast day for St. Silvester.

Little is known for certain about Silvester’...

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What are macros? An exercise and nutrition scientist explains

  • Written by Tyler Garner, Clinical Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington
imageMost whole foods contain more than one kind of macro.carlosgaw/E+ via Getty Images

“I’m tracking my macros.”

“I’ll pass on that, it doesn’t fit in my macros.”

“I’m on the Macro Diet.”

Macros seem to come up often in the corners of the internet and social media devoted to people trying to lose...

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From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025

  • Written by Zhenbo Wang, Associate Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee
imageA host of space missions are planned to launch in 2025. AP Photo/John Raoux

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world.

NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space missions. China made headlines with...

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3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can linger long-term in homes that escape burning

  • Written by Colleen E. Reid, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThe Marshall Fire spared some homes, shown here a day later, but smoke had blanketed the area.Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through two communities just outside Boulder, Colorado. In the span of about eight hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses...

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  1. Wildfire smoke’s health risks can linger in homes that escape burning − as Colorado’s Marshall Fire survivors discovered
  2. Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential lifespans as much as double previous estimates
  3. Octopuses and their relatives are a new animal welfare frontier − here’s what scientists know about consciousness in these unique creatures
  4. Bob Dylan and the creative leap that transformed modern music
  5. After Hurricane Helene, survivors have been in a race against time to protect family heirlooms, photographs and keepsakes
  6. In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like real Polynesian explorers − an astronomer explains how these methods work
  7. Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already be hurting animals that are grazers
  8. The ‘choking game’ and other challenges amplified by social media can come with deadly consequences
  9. Language AIs in 2024: Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents
  10. 2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans
  11. Detroit’s reparations task force now has until 2025 to make its report, but going slow with this challenging work may not be a bad thing
  12. Climate of fear is driving local officials to quit – new study from California finds threats, abuse rampant
  13. What does the US attorney general actually do? A law professor explains
  14. 3D-printed guns, like the one allegedly used to kill a health care CEO, are a growing threat in the US and around the world
  15. Colorado now has one of the nation’s most liberal abortion access laws, but ballot measures to restrict abortion have a long history in the state
  16. A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics
  17. How should we look to history to make sense of Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson?
  18. The Wanamaker organ has been part of a treasured holiday tradition in Philly for over 100 years − a historian explains its illustrious past and uncertain future
  19. What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone
  20. How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory
  21. The moral dimension to America’s flawed health care system
  22. How to avoid the latest generation of scams this holiday season
  23. Federal protection for monarch butterflies could help or harm this iconic species, depending on how it’s carried out
  24. Parents and caregivers: How to stop feeling like a Grinch and be more present with your kids this holiday season
  25. For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back
  26. The Moon might be older than scientists previously thought − a new study shines light on its history
  27. Yes, Philadelphia is a sanctuary city − but that offers undocumented immigrants little protection from mass deportations
  28. Rules against insider trading also boost innovation, research finds
  29. Why Syria’s reconstruction may depend on the fate of its minorities
  30. What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools
  31. Trust in U.S. media hit an all-time low in 2024 − a new survey shows Black midwesterners have found other trusted messengers of news
  32. Luigi Mangione isn’t the first alleged criminal to capture many people’s imaginations – and hearts
  33. Assault on DEI: Critics use simplistic terms to attack the programs, but they are key to uprooting workplace bias
  34. Nixon’s official acts against his enemies list led to a bipartisan impeachment effort
  35. ‘Love Is Blind’ contestants count as employees − new US government agency finding could shake up reality TV production
  36. Why natural disasters hit harder in rural school districts
  37. Listening for the right radio signals could be an effective way to track small drones
  38. At 88, Pope Francis dances the tango with the global Catholic Church amid its culture wars
  39. More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of African American theater
  40. Vaccine misinformation distorts science – a biochemist explains how RFK Jr. and his lawyer’s claims threaten public health
  41. No flood gauges, no warning: 99% of US streams are off the radar amid rising flash flood risks – we saw the harm in 2024
  42. I’m a former assistant DA who works with survivors of sex trafficking − here’s why a recent Philly sting marks a shift in how Pennsylvania confronts the commercial sex industry
  43. At Hanukkah, a celebration of eternal light − from the desert tabernacle to synagogues today
  44. Trump’s 2017 tax cuts expire soon − study shows they made income inequality worse and especially hurt Black Americans
  45. How liberals lost comedy − and helped Trump win
  46. Is news bias fueled by journalists supplying slanted views or readers’ demanding them? An economist weighs in
  47. Colleges’ career success stats don’t tell the whole story about how their graduates are doing after they get their degree
  48. 5 of the most frustrating health insurer tactics and why they exist
  49. Cómo la canela, la nuez moscada y el jengibre se convirtieron en los aromas de las vacaciones de invierno, lejos de sus orígenes tropicales
  50. Cómo la Navidad se convirtió en una tradición navideña estadounidense, con un Papá Noel, regalos y un árbol