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The rule of law is key to capitalism − eroding it is bad news for American business -- Robert Bird, University of Connecticut

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What damage did the US do to Iran's nuclear program? Why it's so hard to know -- Joshua Rovner, American University

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Humans and animals can both think logically − but testing what kind of logic they're using is tricky -- Olga Lazareva, Drake University

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Legal wrangling over estate of Jimmy Buffett turns his widow's huge inheritance into a cautionary tale -- Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

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Philadelphia's $2B affordable housing plan relies heavily on municipal bonds, which can come with hidden costs for taxpayers -- Jade Craig, University of Mississippi

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Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons -- Anna Erickson, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mexican flags flown during immigration protests bother white people a lot more than other Americans -- Edward D. Vargas, Arizona State University; Jason L. Morín, California State University, Northridge, and Loren Collingwood, University of New Mexico

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Bill Moyers' journalism strengthened democracy by connecting Americans to ideas and each other, in a long and extraordinary career -- Julie Leininger Pycior, Manhattan University

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Why the traditional college major may be holding students back in a rapidly changing job market -- John Weigand, Miami University

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1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion -- William Trollinger, University of Dayton and Susan L Trollinger, University of Dayton

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Who's the most American? Psychological studies show that many people are biased and think it's a white English speaker -- Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago

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Iran emerged weakened and vulnerable after war with Israel − and that could mean trouble for country's ethnic minorities -- Shukriya Bradost, Virginia Tech

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What happens next in US-Iran relations will be informed by the two countries' shared history -- Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Presidents of both parties have launched military action without Congress declaring war − Trump's bombing of Iran is just the latest -- Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Gulf states want no winner in the conflict between Israel and Iran -- Mira Al Hussein, University of Edinburgh

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Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites -- Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University

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What the Supreme Court ruling against 'universal injunctions' means for court challenges to presidential actions -- Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University

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Trump's attack on long-standing principle of birthright citizenship stands, as Supreme Court sidesteps constitutional issue − for now -- Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College and Julie Novkov, University at Albany, State University of New York

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Universities in every state care for congressional papers that document US political history − federal cuts put their work at risk -- Katherine Gregory, Mississippi State University

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Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider -- Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia and Sonia Suter, George Washington University

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What Trump's budget proposal says about his environmental values -- Stan Meiburg, Wake Forest University and Janet McCabe, Indiana University

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What is reconciliation − the legislative shortcut Republicans are using to push through their 'big, beautiful bill'? -- Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School

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Trump administration aims to slash funds that preserve the nation's rich architectural and cultural history -- Michael R. Allen, West Virginia University

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Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren't from -- Eleanor Paynter, University of Oregon

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Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis -- Skip York, Rice University

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Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing -- Thomas A. DuBois, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Southeast Asian nations look to hedge their way out of troubled waters in the South China Sea -- John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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German chancellor's rebuke of Israel marks a shift in state policy that has long put such criticism out of bounds -- Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara

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When developing countries band together, lifesaving drugs become cheaper and easier to buy − with trade-offs -- Lucy Xiaolu Wang, UMass Amherst and Nahim Bin Zahur, Queen's University, Ontario

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Mitochondria can sense bacteria and trigger your immune system to trap them – revealing new ways to treat infections and autoimmunity -- Andrew Monteith, University of Tennessee

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More than half of US teens have had at least one cavity, but fluoride programs in schools help prevent them – new research -- Christina Scherrer, Kennesaw State University and Shillpa Naavaal, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Neuropathic pain has no immediate cause – research on a brain receptor may help stop this hard-to-treat condition -- Pooja Shree Chettiar, Texas A&M University and Siddhesh Sabnis, Texas A&M University

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AI helps tell snow leopards apart, improving population counts for these majestic mountain predators -- Eve Bohnett, University of Florida

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RNA has newly identified role: Repairing serious DNA damage to maintain the genome -- Francesca Storici, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Hurricane Helene set up future disasters, from landslides to flooding – cascading hazards like these are now upending risk models -- Brian J. Yanites, Indiana University

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6 TIPS FOR STAYING SAFE IN EXTREME HEAT IF YOU'RE A RUNNER, CYCLIST OR ANYONE ELSE ACTIVE OUTDOORS -- Susan Yeargin, University of South Carolina

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How to stay cool during heat waves – and heat stroke warning signs to watch for -- Brian Bossak, College of Charleston

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After the smoke clears, a wildfire's legacy can haunt rivers for years, putting drinking water at risk -- Ben Livneh, University of Colorado Boulder

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Extreme weather's true damage cost is a mystery – that's a problem for understanding storm risk -- John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University and William Baule, Texas A&M University

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The hidden cost of convenience: How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies -- Kassem Fawaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Jack West, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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How can the James Webb Space Telescope see so far? -- Adi Foord, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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From the marriage contract to breaking the glass under the chuppah, many Jewish couples adapt their weddings to celebrate gender equality -- Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder

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How Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City mayoral primary could ripple across the country -- Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University

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Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 − it pushed program underground and spurred Saddam Hussein's desire for nukes -- Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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I'm a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here's some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong -- Jake Scott, Stanford University

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Uranium enrichment: A chemist explains how the surprisingly common element is processed to power reactors and weapons -- André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology

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