Biden targets white supremacy 'poison' leading up to primary win

Why Elon Musk’s ‘self-driving’ of Tesla’s board and its decision to pay him $56B collided with the law – and what happens next

Justin P. Klein, University of Delaware

Musk can’t dodge this ruling by moving Tesla’s incorporation to Texas.

US raids in Iraq and Syria: How retaliatory airstrikes affect network of Iran-backed militias

Sara Harmouch, American University; Nakissa Jahanbani, United States Military Academy West Point

More than 85 locations linked to militias were hit in a robust response by Washington to an earlier deadly drone attack on a US base in Jordan.

Enemy collaboration in occupied Ukraine evokes painful memories in Europe – and the response risks a rush to vigilante justice

Ronald Niezen, University of San Diego

Liberated cities are prone to vigilante justice against those accused of conspiring with the enemy.

Black communities are using mapping to document and restore a sense of place

Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State; Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee

Black activists have long used maps to help illustrate their communities’ history and to document historical injustices.

Lunar science is entering a new active phase, with commercial launches of landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages

Jack Burns, University of Colorado Boulder

Projects under NASA’s CLPS program will probe unexplored questions about the universe’s formation.

Studying lake deposits in Idaho could give scientists insight into ancient traces of life on Mars

Robert Patalano, Bryant University

While NASA rovers on the surface of Mars look for hints of life, researchers back on Earth are studying ‘echoes of life’ from ancient basins – hoping that the two sites might be similar.

What do your blood test results mean? A toxicologist explains the basics of how to interpret them

Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University

Your blood contains a wealth of information about the state of your health. Analyzing the levels of each component is an important part of diagnosis.

Why do people and animals need to breathe? A biologist explains why you need a constant source of oxygen

Christina S. Baer, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Inhaling air is how you get the oxygen your body needs to turn your food into energy. Other living things use different strategies.

Amid growing legalization, cannabis in culture and politics is the focus of this anthropology course

Hillary Jeanne Haldane, Quinnipiac University

Students are invited to imagine how the social, political and legal landscape for cannabis will look in the future.

Race is already a theme of the 2024 presidential election – continuing an American tradition

Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University

The centrality of race to US politics is, once again, a defining feature of the current presidential campaign.

Does Trump actually have to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll? Not immediately, at least

How can I get ice off my car? An engineer who studies airborne particles shares some quick and easy techniques

Why Taylor Swift is an antihero to the GOP − but Democrats should know all too well that her endorsement won’t mean it’s all over now