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Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then

Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University

Abortions happened in Arizona, despite a near-complete abortion ban enacted in 1864. But people also faced penalties for them, including a female doctor who went to prison.

When the Supreme Court said it’s important to move quickly in key presidential cases like Trump’s immunity claim

Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York

In 1974, the Supreme Court accepted, heard and decided a case within two months because the justices understood its importance to the public.

The US is one of the least trade-oriented countries in the world – despite laying the groundwork for today’s globalized system

Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Leon Fink, University of Illinois Chicago

As of 2022, only Nigeria and Sudan had lower trade-to-GDP ratios.

Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’

Raymond Hogler, Colorado State University

There are better ways to keep employees on board, such as boosting pay and providing better benefits.

The costs of workplace violence are too high to ignore

Miranda Kitterlin-Lynch, Florida International University

Conservatively speaking, workplace violence costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

Chris Impey, University of Arizona

It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away.

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

Doug Cowen, Penn State

Tau neutrinos are notoriously difficult to spot in detectors like IceCube. But researchers have managed to isolate 7 candidates.

Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

Sarah Florini, Arizona State University

TikTok is hardly a model social media platform, but it’s also far from an outlier when it comes to threats to Americans.

Celebrities routinely drop in on this Florida university’s hospitality course

Michael Cheng, Florida International University

A Miami nightclub owner and restaurateur has been adding star power to his class on entrepreneurship and hospitality.

Persisting inequality has made many young South Africans question the choices made by Nelson Mandela – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Thabo Leshilo, The Conversation

The third and final part of our series What happened to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa on The Conversation Weekly podcast. Featuring interviews with Sithembile Mbete and Richard Calland.

Billions of cicadas are about to emerge from underground in a rare double-brood convergence

When the Supreme Court said it’s important to move quickly in key presidential cases like Trump’s immunity claim

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam