Job search for college graduates comes down to luck

Diplomacy, sanctions and soft power have failed to deter Iran’s anti-West agenda − could a new Iranian president change that?

Nakissa Jahanbani, Penn State; Daniel P. Colletti, United States Military Academy West Point

On June 28, Iranians will pick a new president. Relations with the West have been a key campaign issue.

FDA authorized the sale of menthol-flavored e-cigarettes – a health policy expert explains how the benefits may outweigh the risks

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, UMass Amherst

It’s a conundrum: While vaping can help some adults stop cigarette smoking, it also appeals to young people who may take up the habit.

Service dogs can reduce the severity of PTSD for veterans – new research

Sarah Leighton, University of Arizona; Kerri Rodriguez, University of Arizona

These dogs are trained to try to interrupt panic attacks and provide deep calming pressure to the people they’re matched with.

More women in venture capital doesn’t mean more funding for female-led businesses, new research suggests − here’s why

Lei (Jeremy) Xu, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Changing a culture is hard to do.

The world’s fourth mass coral bleaching is underway, but well-connected reefs may have a better chance to recover

Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology

Coral reefs share genetic material across wide areas, with help from ocean currents. This ability is especially important during episodes like the mass bleaching currently occurring.

Extreme heat waves aren’t ‘just summer’: How climate change is heating up the weather, and what we can do about it

Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell; Jeffrey Basara, UMass Lowell

The June heat wave triggered warnings of a flash drought and caused a surge in ER visits. Many other countries have been facing extreme heat at the same time.

As debate approaches, presidents are blamed for events over which they have little control

Andrew Reeves, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

Most efforts to project how well a candidate will do in an election are based largely on factors over which presidents have little to no control.

Populism can degrade democracy but is on the rise − here’s what causes this political movement and how it can be weakened

Gábor Scheiring, Georgetown University

Economic insecurity is one factor that drives populism, a former politician from Hungary writes.

Journalism’s trust problem is about money, not politics

Jacob L. Nelson, University of Utah

A study shows that Americans believe news organizations report the news inaccurately not because they are politically biased, but because they want to generate larger audiences and larger profits.

For many Olympic medalists, silver stings more than bronze

Andrea Luangrath, University of Iowa; William Hedgcock, University of Minnesota

Researchers used AI to analyze photos of Olympic medalists and found that bronze medalists appeared happier than silver medalists. A cognitive process called ‘counterfactual thinking’ may explain why.

Why do some planets have moons? A physics expert explains why Earth has only one moon while other planets have hundreds

Supreme Court’s slow roll on deciding Trump’s immunity is the opposite of politics

What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame