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The Conversation (US)by Wade Catts, Adjunct Professor of History, Rowan University28 Aug 2026
“I think I found a bone.” A volunteer whispered that to us on the last day of a public archaeology project at the Red Bank Battlefield Park in southern New Jersey in June 2022.
The Conversation (US)by Ella Siegrist, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis28 Aug 2026
In January 2026, during Operation Country Roads, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and state and local law enforcement detained roughly 600 immigrants across West Virginia.
The Conversation (US)by S. Michelle Driedger, Professor of College of Community and Global Health, University of Manitoba28 Aug 2026
Earlier this summer, the four of us spent three days in a room with a dozen others whose jobs sound nothing like ours, or like each other’s: a cosmologist, an emergency management scholar, a...
The Conversation (US)by Erica D. Henn, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Temple University28 Aug 2026
Chinese esports player Jian “Uzi” Zi-hao was more than a star “League of Legends” player: He was so talented that his team structured its entire strategy around his abilities, funneling resources...
The Conversation (US)by Sarah Dees, Associate Professor of American Religions, Iowa State University27 Aug 2026
As soon as news broke about the death of beloved songwriter Dolly Parton, I began receiving condolence messages from across the country, and around the world.
The Conversation (US)by Julia Cole, Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Michigan27 Aug 2026
Temperatures have warmed dramatically across the equatorial Pacific Ocean in 2026, signaling the onset of a strong and potentially historic El Niño.
The Conversation (US)by Kent Jones, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Babson College27 Aug 2026
The United States and Canada, historically close allies, are moving further into a full-blown trade war with no end in sight. On Aug.
The Conversation (US)by Jayash Paudel, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oklahoma27 Aug 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is getting personal for American farmers. After trade talks between the two longtime allies fell apart in mid-August 2026, Trump imposed 50%...
The Conversation (US)by Robert Boatright, Professor of Political Science, Clark University; Institute for Humane Studies27 Aug 2026
If you have seen campaign ads for the midterm elections, you have likely noticed that a major theme this year is corruption.
The Conversation (US)by Jason M. Blazakis, Professor of the Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College27 Aug 2026
Syria’s delisting as a state sponsor of terrorism was a long time coming. The country had, after all, been on the U.S.
The Conversation (US)by Jeffrey C. Dixon, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross27 Aug 2026
Do artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT eliminate jobs, create new ones, or both? There’s a lot of speculation regarding this question, but little solid data in the U.S. to answer it.
The Conversation (US)by Hillary Lum, GUIDE Medical Director/Practitioner, University of Colorado Anschutz27 Aug 2026
Latino Americans are 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than white Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
The Conversation (US)by Prayan Pokharel, Research scientist, University of Hohenheim27 Aug 2026
A few months ago, a friend of mine told me that his father-in-law had been rushed to the hospital after eating some wild honey brought back from the hills of Nepal.
The Conversation (US)by Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University27 Aug 2026
Reports from the USS Abraham Lincoln describe a crew running on almost no sleep and suffering mental strain.
The Conversation (US)by Don Figer, Professor and Director of the Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology27 Aug 2026
NASA plans to soon launch a new space telescope that will survey a billion galaxies to trace how the universe evolved over time, all courtesy of America’s spy program and decades of research into...
The Conversation (US)by Ashwin R. Vasavada, Project Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA27 Aug 2026
Lights blink on as I enter the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at 7:30 a.m. I’m the first to arrive, even though I already feel late.
The Conversation (US)by Julian L. Gallegos, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Purdue University27 Aug 2026
When a wildfire threatens a community, most people don’t think to ask whether the firefighters coming to help slept enough the night before, recovered from the previous day’s shift or have enough...
The Conversation (US)by Carolina Rossini, Professor of Practice and Director for Program, Public Interest Technology Initiative, UMass Amherst27 Aug 2026
Meta has agreed to pay up to US$17 billion over 10 years to settle claims brought by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general.
The Conversation (US)by Christopher Lieu, Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz26 Aug 2026
For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer between 2015 and 2021, about 97% died within...
The Conversation (US)by Ingmar Nitze, Postdoctoral Research in Polar Geoscience, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research26 Aug 2026
Florida gets a lot of attention for its sinkholes, especially when they swallow cars and entire houses. But its sinkhole risk has nothing on Alaska’s.
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