Can Biden bring down sky-high drug prices?

How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America

Rebecca Scofield, University of Idaho; Elyssa Ford, Northwest Missouri State University

Young queer people growing up in rural areas don’t necessarily need to flee their communities to find safety and acceptance.

Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a tool for rooting it out

Lisa Bero, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

A new screening tool to help study reviewers identify what’s fake or shoddy in research may be on the horizon. And everyday people can apply some of the same critical analysis tools.

A dog has caught monkeypox from one of its owners, highlighting risk of the virus infecting pets and wild animals

Amy Macneill, Colorado State University

The monkeypox virus can easily spread between humans and animals. A veterinary virologist explains how the virus could go from people to wild animals in the US – and why that could be a problem.

Ukrainian people are resisting the centuries-old force of Russian imperialism - Ukraine war at 6 months

Ronald Suny, University of Michigan

Democratic nation-states were supposed to be the legitimate successors of empires. It hasn’t quite worked out that way in the past century, and Russia’s war on Ukraine is a reflection of that.

Prosecuting a president is divisive and sometimes destabilizing – here’s why many countries do it anyway

Victor Menaldo, University of Washington; James D. Long, University of Washington; Morgan Wack, University of Washington

Both sweeping immunity and overzealous prosecutions of former leaders can undermine democracy. But such prosecutions pose different risks for older democracies like the US than in younger ones.

Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid

Uisdean Nicholson, Heriot-Watt University; Sean Gulick, University of Texas at Austin; Veronica Bray, University of Arizona

The dinosaurs were possibly annihilated by two asteroids.

Conditions in prisons during heat waves pose deadly threats to incarcerated people and prison staff

J. Carlee Purdum, Texas A&M University

A survey conducted in Texas state prisons finds that many lack basic resources like cold water, ice and air conditioning to help incarcerated people and staff keep cool during heat waves.

You don’t have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken

What are muscle knots? An exercise physiologist explains what those tight little lumps are and how to get rid of them

Which microbes live in your gut? A microbiologist tries at-home test kits to see what they reveal about the microbiome