Everyone who eats has a stake in the farm bill

What is insider trading? Two finance experts explain why it matters to everyone

Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University; Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College

The SEC is investigating whether executives at First Republic Bank, which was seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase, improperly traded on inside information.

Clothes moths: Why I admire these persistent, destructive, difficult-to-eradicate and dull-looking pests

Isabel Novick, Boston University

An appreciation for the moths that chomp holes in your clothes. They eat the inedible, occupy the uninhabitable and overcome every evolutionary obstacle in their way.

Debunking the Dunning-Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average

Eric C. Gaze, Bowdoin College

The idea that the least skilled are the most unaware of their incompetency is pervasive in science and pop culture. But a new analysis of the data shows that the Dunning-Kruger effect may not be true.

Gain-of-function research is more than just tweaking risky viruses – it’s a routine and essential tool in all biology research

Seema Lakdawala, University of Pittsburgh; Anice Lowen, Emory University

From cancer immunotherapy and antibiotics to GMO crops and pandemic surveillance, gain of function is a cornerstone of basic research.

What is that voice in your head when you read?

Beth Meisinger, University of Memphis; Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

Called your ‘inner voice,’ it develops along with your reading skills.

Medicaid work requirements would leave more low-income people without health insurance – but this policy is unlikely to pass this time around

Simon F. Haeder, Texas A&M University

Adults insured by Medicaid who are 19 to 55 years old and don’t have children or other dependents would need to spend 80 hours a month doing paid work, job training or community service.

White Lotus Day celebrates the ‘founding mother of occult in America,’ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Marina Alexandrova, The University of Texas at Austin

Theosophy and its founders had an outsize impact on Americans’ ideas about spirituality and Asian religions.

Biden’s dragging poll numbers won’t matter in 2024 if enough voters loathe his opponent even more

Peanut butter is a liquid – the physics of this and other unexpected fluids

Montana House Rep. Zooey Zephyr’s censure shows that American standards of political decorum are failing