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In Congress, breaking unwritten rules that encouraged civility and enabled things to get done is becoming the new normal

Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ordered an investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s ongoing criminal probe of former President Donald Trump, he broke with House practices and norms. And the three committee chairmen McCarthy tasked with…

March 23, 2023
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March 23, 2023

China’s only now revealed crucial COVID-19 origins data. Earlier disclosure may have saved us 3 years of political argy-bargy

Dominic Dwyer, University of Sydney Once more, we’re talking about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. First the US Department of Energy’s review gave more emphasis to the laboratory leak hypothesis than previously, although the confidence for…

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International law doesn’t protect people fleeing environmental disaster – here’s how it could

Morgiane Noel, Trinity College Dublin Researchers have tried for decades to find…

The view from Moscow and Beijing: What peace in Ukraine and a post-conflict world look like to Xi and Putin

Ronald Suny, University of Michigan Just a few days after being branded…

Water in space – a ‘Goldilocks’ star reveals previously hidden step in how water gets to planets like Earth

John Tobin, National Radio Astronomy Observatory Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding how planets…

March 16, 2023

3 reasons the Willow Arctic oil drilling project was approved – it’s the latest battle in a long fight over Alaska’s North Slope

Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington For more than six decades, Alaska’s North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight.…

March 16, 2023

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it

Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to…

March 15, 2023

Downing of US drone in Russian jet encounter prompts counter claims of violations in the sky – an international law expert explores the arguments

Ashley S. Deeks, University of Virginia The details are disputed, but either way the result was the same: On March 14, 2023, a U.S. drone crashed into the Black Sea after an…

March 15, 2023

Inflation is proving particularly stubborn – but jitters over banking failures, softening economy complicate Fed rate decision

Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha The Federal Reserve is facing a rather sticky problem. Despite its best efforts over the past year, inflation is stubbornly refusing to head south with any…

March 14, 2023

How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes

Qiusheng Wu, University of Tennessee If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane or figure out where people need help after a disaster,…

March 14, 2023

What the research shows about risks of myocarditis from COVID vaccines versus risks of heart damage from COVID – two pediatric cardiologists explain how to parse the data

Frank Han, University of Illinois at Chicago and Jennifer H. Huang, Oregon Health & Science University Soon after the first COVID-19 vaccines appeared in 2021, reports of rare cases of heart inflammation,…

March 13, 2023

Why SVB and Signature Bank failed so fast – and the US banking crisis isn’t over yet

Vidhura S. Tennekoon, Indiana University Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many…

March 13, 2023

Springing forward into daylight saving time is a step back for health – a neurologist explains the medical evidence, and why this shift is worse than the fall time change

Beth Ann Malow, Vanderbilt University As people in the U.S. prepare to set their clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 12, 2023, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of…

March 12, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank biggest US lender to fail since 2008 financial crisis – a finance expert explains the impact

William Chittenden, Texas State University Silicon Valley Bank, which catered to the tech industry for three decades, collapsed on March 10, 2023, after the Santa Clara, California-based lender suffered from an old-fashioned…

March 12, 2023
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