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Russia is enlisting hundreds of thousands of men to fight against Ukraine, but public support for Putin is falling

Arik Burakovsky, Tufts University

While Russian public opinion polls show continued support for the war, there are questions about the polls’ reliability and indications that public approval of Putin is declining.

Challenges to voters are growing before the midterms – and have a long history as a way of keeping down the Black vote

Austin Sarat, Amherst College

On Nov. 8, the US may experience a surge of voters intimidated by Election Day challenges to their right to cast a ballot.

NASA successfully shifted an asteroid’s orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos

David Barnhart, University of Southern California

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully showed that it is possible to crash a spacecraft into a small asteroid and change its orbit. This technique could save Earth from asteroids in the future.

Male birth control options are in development, but a number of barriers still stand in the way

Christina Chung-Lun Wang, University of California, Los Angeles

There hasn’t been a new form of male birth control since the 1980s. More contraception options for all partners could help reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies.

Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the ‘unauthorized’ biography

Nigel Hamilton, UMass Boston

Bourdain’s brother, Christopher, has called for the publisher, Simon & Schuster, to halt publication until the book’s ‘many errors were corrected.’

Putting King Charles III on British currency bucks a global trend to honor diverse national heroes on coins and bills

Harcourt Fuller, Georgia State University

The new money – featuring the visage of King Charles III – will start rolling out by December 2022.

The big reason Florida insurance companies are failing isn’t just hurricane risk – it’s fraud and lawsuits

How to keep your jack-o’-lantern from turning into moldy, maggoty mush before Halloween

Gonorrhea became more drug resistant while attention was on COVID-19 – a molecular biologist explains the sexually transmitted superbug