Trump's second term: look to Andrew Jackson in 1828

What Buddhism can teach in this moment of deep divisions: No person is ‘evil,’ only ‘mistaken’

Jeremy David Engels, Penn State

If we considered people on the other side of a disagreement as not ‘evil’ but ‘mistaken’ or ‘ill-informed,’ it might create more room for dialogue, writes a scholar of mindfulness.

What is ‘ballot curing’? Election expert explains the method for fixing errors made when voters cast their ballots

Paul Gronke, Reed College

Ballot curing aims to ensure that every valid vote is counted, even those with messy signatures, misspelled names or missing IDs.

How the Trump presidency might change the global economy

Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University

As the US looks further inwards, the rest of the world must learn to work together and forge new routes to prosperity and climate goals.

This course uses crime novels to teach critical thinking

Sally C. Harris, University of Tennessee

Can stories about detectives from days gone by help students learn to think more critically? An English lecturer provides clues through a course that features novels about sleuths from a bygone era.

Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology’s fundamentals

Allan Albig, Boise State University

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, various diseases and even the origin of life.

Rare access to hammerhead shark embryos reveals secrets of its unique head development

Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida

Because hammerhead sharks give birth to live young, studying their embryonic development is much more complicated than harvesting some eggs and watching them develop in real time.

How was popcorn discovered? An archaeologist on its likely appeal for people in the Americas millennia ago

Sean Rafferty, University at Albany, State University of New York

Corn has its roots in Mexico about 9,000 years ago.

Playing with the kids is important work for chimpanzee mothers

Zarin Machanda, Tufts University; Kris Sabbi, Harvard University

When resources are tight, mothers bear the costs of playing with their offspring even as they avoid socializing with others.

Who formally declares the winner of the US presidential election?

Making a Snickers bar is a complex science − a candy engineer explains how to build the airy nougat and chewy caramel of this Halloween favorite

How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths