The Conversation - Teens and algorithms

College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, University of New Orleans

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.

Greater Detroit is becoming more diverse and less segregated – but Asians and Hispanics increasingly live in their own neighborhoods

Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University

Detroit is one of the country’s most segregated regions, but census data shows how that’s changing in both the city and suburbs.

Japan’s diplomatic charm offensive in US aims to keep Washington in committed relationship

Mary M. McCarthy, Drake University

Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.

Midwest tornadoes: What a decaying El Niño has to do with violent storms in the central US

Jana Lesak Houser, The Ohio State University

A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.

Why are some people faster than others? 2 exercise scientists explain the secrets of running speed

Dawn P. Coe, University of Tennessee; Elizabeth (Kip) Webster, University of Tennessee

Your sprinting skills have a lot to do with genetics, but your brain also plays a big role.

Longer-lasting ozone holes over Antarctica expose seal pups and penguin chicks to much more UV

Sharon Robinson, University of Wollongong; Laura Revell, University of Canterbury; Rachele Ossola, Colorado State University

Four years of persistent ozone holes have sparked concern about what more UV is doing to Antarctic ecosystems.

Ghosted, orbited, breadcrumbed? A psychotherapist breaks down some perils of digital dating and how to cope

Danielle Sukenik, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Online dating has its own jargon. But the feelings involved are nothing new.

Gut microbes that get you drunk and damage your liver − how the microbiome can create a microbrewery

Bill Sullivan, Indiana University

Drunk without drinking? Liver damage without libations? Gut bacteria might be the culprit.

Trump trial reveals details about how the former president thinks about, and exploits, the media

Cannabis legalization has led to a boom in potent forms of the drug that present new hazards for adolescents

What you eat could alter your unborn children and grandchildren’s genes and health outcomes