College grads enter rapidly changing world of work

It’s OK to mow in May − the best way to help pollinators is by adding native plants

Christina Grozinger, Penn State; Harland Patch, Penn State

NoMowMay is a catchy concept, but it doesn’t provide the food that native North American pollinators need or lasting support for them.

Weather risk can move markets months in advance: Stock traders pay attention to these 2 long-range climate forecasts

Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona

Option price swings show how much traders believe seasonal climate and weather matters for all sorts of industries, not just the ones you might expect.

Wildfire smoke is back – fires burning across Canada are already triggering US air quality alerts in the Midwest and Plains

Charles O. Stanier, University of Iowa; Gregory Carmichael, University of Iowa; Peter S. Thorne, University of Iowa

States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.

Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science and statistics to nursing

Melissa Pritchard, Arizona State University

Among her 5 decades of accomplishments, Nightingale founded the world’s first nursing school and advocated health care for all.

Viruses are doing mysterious things everywhere – AI can help researchers understand what they’re up to in the oceans and in your gut

Libusha Kelly, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Scientists are discovering viral genetic sequences in the wild faster than they can analyze them. A kind of ChatGPT for proteins can help make sense of all that data.

Black holes are mysterious, yet also deceptively simple − a new space mission may help physicists answer hairy questions about these astronomical objects

Gaurav Khanna, University of Rhode Island

Studying theoretical, fast-spinning black holes is helping physicists understand more about the elusive black holes out in the universe.

An obscure provision of Ohio law could keep Biden off the ballot there in November

Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University

Ohio remains stuck with a deadline that won’t allow Joe Biden, running for reelection, to appear on the November ballot. The GOP-run Legislature does not appear to want to fix the problem.

Term limits aren’t the answer

Charlie Hunt, Boise State University

Very few Americans believe Congress is doing a good job. Some of them have a simple solution: Throw the bums out and institute term limits. But that creates more problems than it solves.

How the manosphere found its way into the Black community

Steven Dashiell, Morgan State University

The Black hosts of the ‘Fresh & Fit’ podcast speak in the parlance of social justice movements, but apply it, in a twisted way, to justify misogyny.

Thirsty in paradise: Water crises are a growing problem across the Caribbean islands

‘Dancing’ raisins − a simple kitchen experiment reveals how objects can extract energy from their environment and come to life

By not lip-syncing Amy Winehouse’s songs, actress Marisa Abela confronts impossible expectations in ‘Back to Black’