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Atlantic hurricane season 2023: El Niño and extreme Atlantic Ocean heat are...
Hurricane Florence, seen from the International Space Station in 2018. Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.NASAThe Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are...
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To have better disagreements, change your words – here are 4 ways to make...
Showing you're listening is a critical part of fraught discussions.Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesYour 18-year-old daughter announces she’s in love, dropping out of college and moving to...
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The allure of the ad-lib: New research identifies why people prefer...
What makes improvised stage patter more appealing than a canned script?FangXiaNuo/E+ via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.The big ideaAudiences love to see...
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How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy
An AI-driven political campaign could be all things to all people.Eric Smalley, TCUS; Biodiversity Heritage Library/Flickr; Taymaz Valley/Flickr, CC BY-NDCould organizations use artificial intelligence...
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Arsenic contamination of food and water is a global public health concern –...
One symptom of arsenic poisoning is the growth of plaques on the skin called arsenical keratosis.Anita Ghosh/REACH via Flickr, CC BYArsenic is a naturally occurring element found in the Earth’s crust....
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Several Down syndrome features may be linked to a hyperactive antiviral...
Addressing the increased risks of certain diseases among those with Down syndrome could help improve their quality of life.Halfpoint Images/Moment via Getty ImagesPeople with Down syndrome, or trisomy...
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Blockchain is a key technology – a computer scientist explains why the...
Blockchain technology has many uses beyond cryptocurrency.Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty ImagesPeople hear a lot about blockchain technology in relation to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which rely on...
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Scientists' political donations reflect polarization in academia – with...
Under 10% of political donations from academic scholars go to Republican causes.Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images PlusPeople who lean left politically reported an increase in trust in scientists...
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Nearly 20% of the cultural differences between societies boil down to...
How much of a culture could be due to things like the grain it traditionally grew?Visoot Uthairam/Moment via Getty ImagesIn some parts of the world, the rules are strict; in others they are far more...
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Brain tumors are cognitive parasites – how brain cancer hijacks neural...
Gliomas can form connections with distant areas of the brain, exploiting them for their own spread and growth.Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty ImagesResearchers have long known that brain tumors,...
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Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – receding...
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen across the Dnieper River, which was receding after a downstream dam was destroyed.Photo by Carl Court/Getty ImagesA blast on June 6, 2023, destroyed the...
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El Niño is back – that's good news or bad news, depending on where you live
Warm water along the equator off South America signals an El Niño, like this one in 2016.NOAAEl Niño is officially here, and while it’s still weak right now, federal forecasters expect this global...
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'From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma' – a college course explores nature's...
People for millennia have used what grows around them as medicine.LorenzoT81/iStock via Getty Images PlusUncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional...
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If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?
A glimpse of a post-apocalyptic world.Bulgar/E+ via Getty ImagesCurious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
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Are you part robot? A linguistic anthropologist explains how humans are like...
Are we as different as we'd like to believe?Ledi Nuge/iStock via Getty ImagesChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while...
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Glass: Neither a solid nor a liquid, this common yet complicated material is...
Most glass is made by melting down soda ash, limestone and quartz sand.gezgin01/iSock via Getty ImagesGlass is a material of many faces: It is both ancient and modern, strong yet delicate, and able to...
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Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies – and...
For _Drosophila melanogaster_, their senses have a significant effect on how quickly they age.nico_blue/E+ via Getty ImagesAll living organisms age. People have long sought ways to slow, halt or...
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Forensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and...
Animals that shared the landscape with humans disappeared as the ice age ended.Mauricio Antón/Wikimedia Commons, CC BYThe earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge...
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EU files antitrust charges against Google – here's how the ad tech at the...
European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager discusses the EU's antitrust case against Google.AP Photo/Virginia MayoThe European Union filed an antitrust case against Google on June 14, 2023,...
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96.4% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies in their blood by fall 2022
Infection and vaccination both leave their mark in your blood.Yulia Reznikov/Moment via Getty ImagesCC BY-NDAntibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were present in the blood of 96.4%...
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