Will Supreme Court draw the line on gun rights?

Engineered ‘living materials’ could help clean up water pollution one day

Jonathan K. Pokorski, University of California, San Diego; Debika Datta, University of California, San Diego

‘Living materials’ made with genetically engineered bacteria and Jell-O-like gel could make pollutants in water bodies nontoxic.

Your mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here’s how your brain stores and retrieves words

Nichol Castro, University at Buffalo

Most people can draw from tens of thousands of words in their memory within milliseconds. Studying this process can improve language disorder treatment and appreciation of the gift of communication.

Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food – new research

Grace Melo, Texas A&M University; Andrea Leschewski, South Dakota State University; Kyle Jones, University of Kentucky

The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5% between late April and late July of 2020, a research team found.

Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud following the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Here’s what investors need to know

D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University; Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University

The downfall of the onetime multibillionaire holds lessons for investors and regulators alike.

Both Israel and Palestinian supporters accuse the other side of genocide – here’s what the term actually means

Alexander Hinton, Rutgers University - Newark

People talk about genocide in a few different ways, ranging from technical to colloquial – but a war of words does not replace a path to peace, a genocide scholar writes.

Generative AI like ChatGPT could help boost democracy – if it overcomes key hurdles

Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Purdue University; Daniel S. Schiff, Purdue University

Political scientists have begun to investigate ways AI can help people understand politics better and get more voices into the public sphere.

Young men in violent parts of Philadelphia, Chicago die from guns at a higher rate than US troops in the heat of battle

Alex Knorre, Boston College

Mass shootings account for only about 3% of gun homicides in the US

Acapulco was built to withstand earthquakes, but not Hurricane Otis’ destructive winds – how building codes failed this resort city

Michel Bruneau, University at Buffalo

The best science is not always the best engineering when it comes to building codes. It’s also a problem across the US, as an engineer who works on disaster resilience explains.

Both the US and Australia are adamant the Pacific 'matters'. But only one is really moving the dial

Henryk Szadziewski, University of Hawaii; Graeme Smith, Australian National University

While the US is still primarily focused on countering Chinese influence in the region, Australia is making a real impact with its Pacific Engagement Visa.

When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco’s PR playbook

It’s not just about facts: Democrats and Republicans have sharply different attitudes about removing misinformation from social media

Friendship research is getting an update – and that’s key for dealing with the loneliness epidemic