Why the private sector has an interest in swamps

Space weather forecasting needs an upgrade to protect future Artemis astronauts

Lulu Zhao, University of Michigan

The Sun will be at its most explosive right around the time NASA plans to put people back on the Moon.

Microrobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment

Zhengxing Li, University of California, San Diego

Green algae carry drug-loaded nanoparticles directly to the lungs, reducing side effects in other organs and increasing treatment efficiency.

Supreme Court justices secretly recorded – the legal issues and what they mean for the rest of us

Anne Toomey McKenna, University of Richmond

Secret recordings raise questions about Justice Alito’s impartiality, but they also reveal the weak state of legal protections against the misuse of the microphones and cameras everyone carries.

People ambivalent about political issues support violence more than those with clear opinions

Joseph Siev, University of Virginia; Richard Petty, The Ohio State University

The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme actions relating to that issue.

Ukraine’s draft woes leave the West facing pressure to make up for the troop shortfall

Nicolai N. Petro, University of Rhode Island

Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.

Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people

Nicole Lee Schroeder, Kean University

Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from 1829 show they were wrong.

Inflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut in 2024

Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha

The Federal Reserve is being characteristically cautious.

Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University

Lawson learned in India how to resist racism and subsequently trained his students on the systematic use of nonviolence to fight injustice.

Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people

Robert Rosenberger, Georgia Institute of Technology

Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.

Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning

John Weigand, Miami University

Turning excess office space into apartments isn’t a panacea for the housing shortage, but it’s producing thousands of new units yearly and is more sustainable and economical than new construction.

Scientists can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding – why this matters so much for our understanding of the cosmos

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

Astronomers Vicent Martínez and Bernard Jones explain the mystery of the Hubble tension, and why it matters so much for our understanding of the universe, on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

How do you build tunnels and bridges underwater? A geotechnical engineer explains the construction tricks

American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited, too

Eye exercises to improve sight – is there any science behind them? An ophthalmologist explains why you shouldn’t buy the hype