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Hurricane Idalia forecast to intensify over extremely warm Gulf waters, on track for Florida landfall as a dangerous storm

Haiyan Jiang, Florida International University

A hurricane scientist explains the conflict between 2023’s abnormally high ocean heat and the storm-disrupting wind shear accompanying El Niño when it comes to hurricane intensification.

What social change movements can learn from fly fishing: The value of a care-focused message

Brett Crawford, Grand Valley State University ; Erica Coslor, The University of Melbourne; Madeline Toubiana, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Founded in 1959, the membership group Trout Unlimited has changed the culture of fly-fishing and mobilized members to support conservation. Could its approach work for other social problems?

Quran burning in Sweden prompts debate on the fine line between freedom of expression and incitement of hatred

Armin Langer, University of Florida

Several countries across Europe are introducing new legislation to curb hate speech against religions, even as they get rid of older blasphemy laws.

What can cities do to correct racism and help all communities live longer? It starts with city planning

Catherine Brinkley, University of California, Davis

An analysis by scholars at the University of California, Davis showed that just a small number of cities in California actively consider racism when developing their plans.

How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi persecution − a new view of history

Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.

Prescriptions for fruits and vegetables can improve the health of people with diabetes and other ailments, new study finds

Kurt Hager, UMass Chan Medical School; Fang Fang Zhang, Tufts University

When people taking part in 22 pilot programs across the US got free fruits and vegetables, their health improved.

Machines can’t always take the heat − two engineers explain the physics behind how heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers

Srinivas Garimella, Georgia Institute of Technology; Matthew T. Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

People aren’t the only ones harmed by heat waves. The hotter it gets, the harder it is for machines to keep their cool.

This course examines the dark realities behind your favorite children’s stories

Meisha Lohmann, Binghamton University, State University of New York

A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.

‘Every flight is a learning event’: Why the V-22 Osprey aircraft won’t be grounded despite dozens of crashes and 54 fatalities

Peter Layton, Griffith University

54 people have died in crashes of the controversial ‘tiltrotor’ V-22 Osprey aircraft – but the military advantage it offers is too great to be discounted.

Judicial orders restricting Trump’s speech seek to balance his own constitutional rights

Looking for a US ‘climate haven’ away from heat and disaster risks? Good luck finding one

Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson made a suggestion during the 1963 March on Washington − and it changed a good speech to a majestic sermon on an American dream