Parents' responsibility for kids' crimes

About a third of employees have faced bullying at work – here’s how to recognize and deal with it

Jason Walker, Adler University; Deborah Circo, University of Nebraska Omaha

You’d call the police if a stranger in public did what many bullies at work get away with. Two researchers who study workplace violence describe the widespread phenomenon.

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot

Ryan Raul Bañagale, Colorado College

The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.

Could flag football one day leapfrog tackle football in popularity?

Josh Woods, West Virginia University

The NFL’s embrace of the sport points to a promising future. But gender and political divides could stand in the way.

The divine matchmaker in Chinese mythology − Old Man Under the Moon − who helps couples find love

Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee

Young people in China are no longer settling into marriages arranged by their parents. But they are still looking for blessings from Chinese gods to find everlasting love.

Power outages leave poor communities in the dark longer: Evidence from 15M outages raises questions about recovery times

Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology; Scott C. Ganz, Georgetown University

Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.

Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?

Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame

The US, a minor liquefied natural gas supplier a decade ago, now is the world’s top source. That’s good for energy security, but bad for Earth’s climate. An energy scholar explains the trade-offs.

DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, American University

Predictive policing has been a bust. The Department of Justice nurtured the technology from researchers’ minds to corporate production lines and into the hands of police departments.

Synthetic human embryos let researchers study early development while sidestepping ethical and logistical hurdles

Min Yang, University of Washington

Early human development is a complex, multistep process that’s even more complicated to study in the lab. Models made from stem cells avoid some of the trouble with using real human embryos.

Indonesians head to polls amid concerns over declining democracy, election integrity and vote buying

Angguntari Ceria Sari, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan

As many as 204 million Indonesians are registered to vote in what will be the world’s largest single-day election in 2024.

Trump was not king and can be prosecuted for crimes committed while president: Appeals court places limits on immunity

Claire Wofford, College of Charleston

Donald Trump has claimed he is immune from prosecution for actions he took as part of his job as president. An appeals court unanimously disagreed, allowing the many prosecutions of Trump to proceed.

More than 78 ‘friends’ of the Supreme Court offer advice on the 14th Amendment and Trump’s eligibility

Wayne Unger, Quinnipiac University

34 groups filed briefs with the Supreme Court in favor of keeping Donald Trump on the ballot, 30 favored disqualifying him as an insurrectionist, and 14 simply added legal information to the record.

Super Bowl party foods can deliver political bite – choose wisely

Joshua J. Dyck, UMass Lowell; Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, University of Maryland

Polarization invades parts of Americans’ lives that really aren’t political, dividing society more deeply. That includes decisions about whether or not they like meatloaf or chili.

It’s the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac − associated with good fortune, wisdom and success

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

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