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The Taliban has taken a terrible toll on the education of girls -- and boys as well
Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the current Taliban rule in Aghanistan. They've had a devastating impact on girls' education. A lesser told story is their impact on the education of boys.
Is Traveling for Stargazing the Next Big Wellness Craze? These Hotels Are Betting on It
A growing body of research confirms that silent contemplation of the night sky can help reset your nervous system.
On Grief and Growing Up in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The following essay is adapted from a keynote address given at the Association for the Study of Buffy+’s 11th Biennial Slayage Conference on July 10, 2026. In case it needs to be said, this essay contains many, many spoilers for,
The Maltese Version
One day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a language she didn’t speak. Ix-Xmara Mżerżqa. The papers were flopping off the edge of his desk, trembling in the breeze from the
Olivia Rodrigo Quietly Paid a Fan’s Final Semester of College Tuition
The pop star paid for a University of Alabama student's final semester of college after discovering her story on TikTok. Olivia Rodrigo Quietly Paid a Fan’s Final Semester of College Tuition Karan Singh
STAT+: Eyepoint study results for vision treatment disappoint, but company still sees promise
Eyepoint said patients given its experimental treatment for wet AMD failed to maintain vision with less frequent injections compared to a standard treatment.
STAT+: Amylyx endocrine drug succeeds in pivotal study
In a Phase 3 trial of people with post-bariatric hypoglycemia, those taking the drug, avexitide, experienced a 55% reduction in the rate of serious low blood sugar events compared with…
Jason Arday, Cambridge Professor Accused of Plagiarism, Is Found Dead
Mr. Arday resigned last week after the university announced an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and fabrication.
Consumer sentiment dips, especially among Republicans
<div>Data: <a href="https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/" target="_blank">University of Michigan</a>; Note: August 2026 number is preliminary; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios</div><p>Public opinion about the economy appears to be souring further this month, per th
Why stability might be the smartest career move right now
Employees today are stressed, angry and sad, and they’re experiencing these emotions more than even before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gallup. A big reason for stress is a sense of job insecurity, according to research published by the American Psychological Associa
These practices improve your well-being and actually stick
Below, Matt Bloom shares five key insights from his new book, Lasting Wellbeing: Science-Based Practices for Tranquility, Authenticity, Meaning, and Joy. Matt is a social psychologist and emeritus professor of business at the University of Notre Dame where, for almost 30
DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain
Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from north-east England suggests
Supermassive black hole spews energy 300,000 light years into deep space
Supermassive black holes are best known for their immense gravity, pulling in everything that strays too close, even light. But new research suggests these cosmic giants can also hurl enormous amounts of energy outward, driving powerful disturbances that ripple hundreds of thousa
Is empty space really empty? This magnetic star may finally solve a 90-year-old mystery
Empty space is not as empty as it looks.That is the takeaway of a new study examining signals from a dead star, offering what researchers say is the strongest evidence yet that extreme magnetic fields can alter the properties of a vacuum, causing seemingly empty space to act like
On this day in space! Aug. 15, 1977: Mysterious 'Wow!' Signal boosts search for E.T.
On Aug. 15, 1977, astronomers using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope detected the famous "Wow!" signal, which to this day is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that we are not alone in the universe. Astronomer Jerry Ehman was using the telescope to scan a regi
Marine Biologists Solved a Wildlife Mystery From the Walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge: How the Harbor Porpoise Mates
The dolphin-like marine mammals returned to San Francisco Bay in 2008 after a decades-long absence from the area. Scientists took the rare opportunity to closely observe their behavior, and what they uncovered might help at-risk porpoise populations
Here's Why These Male Spiders Sacrifice Themselves by Somersaulting Into Females' Fangs While Mating
A new study suggest that even strange, complex animal behaviors can have a relatively simple genetic basis
Astronomers Peered at the Early Universe and May Have Discovered a New Kind of Celestial Object: Black Hole Stars
Since the James Webb Space Telescope started collecting data in 2022, it has found puzzling objects dubbed little red dots. A new study suggests they might be giant black holes with some characteristics of stars
Covid-19 Can Reawaken Dormant Viruses in the Body, Which Might Worsen Symptoms of the Respiratory Illness, Study Suggests
Most people carry a sleeping virus in their bodies, such as the herpesvirus that causes mononucleosis, or the “kissing disease.” A new study hints that Covid-19 triggers their reactivation, which could worsen symptoms and increase the risk of long Covid
Black Hole Stars Are Apparently Real and Help Explain a Long-Standing Mystery
Astronomers may have discovered a bizarre new type of star with a black hole at its center.
Stressed Parents Give Kids More Screen Time, Study Finds
Too much screen time can be a tough transition with class back in session for some kids.
This common vitamin deficiency becomes far more dangerous when paired with belly fat
A large study of more than 5,500 adults over 50 found a striking combination of risk factors: abdominal obesity paired with vitamin D deficiency was linked to a 123% higher risk of death over six years. Each condition was associated with increased risk on its own, but together th
Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains
Women who used estrogen-only hormone therapy later in life were less likely to develop dementia and showed fewer signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brains, according to a large study of more than 21,000 participants. Hormone therapy use was linked to 39% lower odds of a dement
Five wounded in shooting at Virginia State University, suspect arrested - Al Jazeera
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The Best Restaurants in Bloomington, Indiana, Home of the Hoosiers
After a Cinderella 2025 football season, the undefeated Indiana Hoosiers are National Champions. Magic has always been around every corner at Indiana University, but the cream and crimson and coach Cignetti proved to the world that anything is possible. Diehard fans held their br
The Best Restaurants in Tuscaloosa, Home to the University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa is known for the University of Alabama and Crimson Tide football, but the growing city — over 100,000 residents and 43,000 students each fall — also has  a growing art scene, music and festivals, and excellent restaurants. Of course many of the best places to eat
The Best Restaurants Near Ohio State University
Oh come, let’s sing Ohio’s praise. The eats and drinks to the Buckeye Nation we raise.  For many, Ohio State is home to the scarlet and gray, where fans converge on Ohio Stadium, aka the great ‘Shoe, to pay homage on football Saturdays. But for alumni, the Ohio State Univers
Three Days of Hot Dogs, Boutiques, and Football for an Ohio State Buckeyes Game Weekend
Columbus is always evolving. In the city, historical landmarks such as the Ohio Statehouse and tributes like the Columbus Museum of Art serve as a snapshot of the past, while the bustling streets of the University District and the Short North represent the future. No matter your
Three Days of Tailgating, Cafecitos, and Football for a Miami Hurricanes Game Weekend
The cries have been coming from Biscayne’s wondrous shores since last year’s College Football Playoff: The U is back! And after 20+ years of painful mediocrity, Miami is once again the center of the college football world. Okay, maybe not the center, but with the Hurricanes a leg
DOJ Declares 3 Race-Based STEM Programs Unconstitutional
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Constipation is common in astronauts—blood tests provide new answers
For astronauts in space, constipation is a well-known problem. But why this happens has long been unclear. Now, a new study from the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with NASA provides an idea of what happens in the stomach without the influence of gravity.
Europe's mountain summits are warming—vegetation is responding in surprisingly different ways
Decades of climate change have not left Europe's mountain vegetation unscathed. However, the changes observed do not always match expectations. As a new international study by a research team led by researchers from the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wheat gene behind Hessian fly resistance cloned after 50-year search
Researchers at the University of Maryland and their collaborators have cloned a gene that makes wheat resistant to feeding by Hessian fly larvae and demonstrated its direct interaction with a protein produced by the insect. The research breaks through a longstanding barrier to un
APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with
The Sinking City 2 ditches the thinky stuff for classic survival horror, but I'm yet to decide if it's truly better for it
There's a bit, early on in The Sinking City 2, where you enter the waterlogged Miskatonic University. As you teeter around toppled shelves and slalom through sodden tomes, a siren begins to blare. It's the last call for survivors hoping to flee the doomed city of Arkham, after wh
Suspect in Virginia State University shooting arrested, found hiding in closet
A 19-year-old man has been arrested as a suspect in the shooting of five people at Virginia State University after he was found hiding in a closet.
Dorm rooms are tiny. The dorm decor economy is not.
<p>Dorm rooms are tiny. The <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/colorado-springs/2026/06/26/dorm-room-moving-taskrabbit" target="_blank">dorm decor economy</a> is not.</p><p><strong>The big picture:</strong> <a href="https://www.axios
"There's no point": AI forces college students to rethink their major
<p>Students — and their parents — are searching for future-proof college majors for an <a href="https://www.axios.com/technology/automation-and-ai" target="_blank">AI</a>-powered world. </p><p><strong>Why it matters: </strong>AI is changi
College loses its monopoly on the American Dream
<p>Whether framed on an office wall, collecting dust in a box or still a distant dream, the college diploma is getting a hard reappraisal.</p><p><strong>Why it matters: </strong>College was <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/14/college-jobs-ga
Dartmouth endowment’s crypto exposure drops by $2M amid falling prices
The value of the university endowment’s holdings in the Bitwise Solana staking ETF, Grayscale Ethereum staking ETF and BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF dropped to about $12 million.
This 1 high school class is worth $100,000—and most students still don’t take it
A Baylor College of Medicine pediatrician just told Texas lawmakers that “high school seniors are legally walking around with Vegas in their pockets.” Lindy McGee was describing prediction-market apps such as Kalshi and Polymarket, where users as young as 18 bet real money on soc
Jason Arday, youngest Black professor at Cambridge, found dead at 41 after resignation
A British sociologist who resigned last week from the University of Cambridge following weeks of public accusations of plagiarism and media scrutiny was found dead Friday.
This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood
In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office. A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body. Taylor was floored, and then concerned.
Taking Weight-Loss Drugs Could Help Reduce Violent Impulses
About a year ago, Rutgers University researcher Daniel Semenza was listening to a podcast about an expansive study of GLP-1 medications when a question occurred to him. The 2025 study, published in Nature Medicine, had examined millions of Department of Veterans Affairs records t
U of Michigan Attempts to Disrupt the Transactional System
<span>U of Michigan Attempts to Disrupt the Transactional System</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.insidehighered.com/sit
The Small Section Cut Session
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Michigan Narrows Gap in Who Can Get Free Community College Tuition
<span>Michigan Narrows Gap in Who Can Get Free Community College Tuition</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.insidehighered
Accreditor Puts Lane Community College on Warning
<span>Accreditor Puts Lane Community College on Warning</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/defaul
Stockton Pulls Genocide Reference After Donor Complains
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Ecological reimagining of former Lake District mill among projects from University of Northumbria
Dezeen School Shows: a proposal to reimagine a former industrial mill in the Lake District as a place where ecology, heritage and community converge is among the student projects from the University of Northumbria. Also featured is a maritime repair and recycling hub, and a propo
Cambridge to Review Hiring Processes After Arday Scandal
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Troy Punishes Professor for Writing to Lawmakers on University Letterhead
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How 4 Colleges Are Supporting Student Parents
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Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead
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AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public admi
IEEE Engineering Summit Supports Bhutan’s Digital Transformation
In collaboration with the Kingdom of Bhutan government, IEEE recently introduced its Engineering Education, Research, and Innovation Summit.Held on 9 and 10 June in Paro, in the eastern Himalayas, the event was designed to help Bhutan navigate its digital transformation by focusi
A 236-million-year-old fossil could rewrite the story of mammalian birth
Scientists may have uncovered evidence that a mammal ancestor was giving birth to live young 236 million years ago. A fossilized cynodont showed a neonatal growth line and an unusually large birth size that closely match patterns seen in modern mammals. The discovery could push t
Taking the stairs could protect your heart and help you live longer
Simply choosing the stairs could have surprisingly big benefits for your heart and longevity. A large analysis involving more than 480,000 people found that regular stair climbers were 39% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 24% less likely to die from any cause th
How to change your self-perception and beliefs
Below, Owen Fitzpatrick shares five key insights from his new book, Inner Propaganda: Leading Hearts and Minds Through Turbulent Times. Fitzpatrick is a social psychologist, behavioral change expert, and international speaker who has spent three decades studying how beliefs ar
The Best Zara New Arrivals to Shop for Summer 2026
Summer essentials and off-duty staples are a few of the best Zara new arrival finds we’re eyeing this week.
The most breathtaking photos of the total solar eclipse
Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, as it cast a dark shadow over much of the country
Quantum entanglement is key to solving 250-year-old maths problem
Analysis of a mathematical puzzle that Leonhard Euler deemed unsolvable in the 1700s reveals that the crucial ingredient for cracking it after all is quantum entanglement
‘Remarkable’ discovery upends our understanding of how brains store memories
Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our knowledge of memory in the mammalian brain
Why do people ask so few questions in conversation?
We've perhaps been conditioned to not ask too many questions, in case it comes across as rude or prying. But columnist David Robson argues that asking people open-ended questions benefits our wellbeing, and doesn't have to be complicated
Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution
A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may have influenced human evolution
How bad is the UK drought and how long will it continue?
Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions, resulting in restrictions on water use in many areas and severe wildfires – here's how it's affecting farming, wildlife and trees
Fishers detonate a bomb every hour on one Indonesian coral reef
The use of explosives to kill fish is widespread across the tropics, and acoustic monitoring in an Indonesian archipelago detected more than 3500 explosions in 483 days
THC in cannabis may reduce nightmares in people with PTSD
A drug made up of THC, the main psychoactive component of cannabis, reduced the severity and incidence of nightmares in people with PTSD
Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight to 2027
Virgin Galactic's next customers will have to wait a bit longer to get off the ground. The suborbital space tourism company hasn't been to the final frontier since June 2024. It had been targeting late 2026 for the resumption of commercial service, but that's not going to happen,
How to image the planets with a telescope and camera
The night sky holds endless wonders, but few experiences match the thrill of photographing planets in vivid detail. With even a modest telescope and camera setup, you can capture cloud bands on Jupiter, the majestic rings of Saturn or the polar caps of Mars — images once the pres
NASA's canceled lunar space station tech will help build the Artemis moon base
Not every canceled NASA program earns a halo after its demise, but one scrapped project is finding new life by contributing its parts to help the space agency achieve its moon base goals faster. Northrop Grumman is repurposing hardware and technology from the Habitation and Logis
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke retires after 30 years at the space agency
Prolific NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has announced his retirement from the U.S. space agency after 30 years of public service. NASA announced Fincke's decision on Wednesday (Aug. 12), celebrating his contributions to spaceflight and long career of accomplishments. “Few people have
Our expert thinks this portable Celestron telescope will delight beginners and younger stargazers
Small telescopes have really come on leaps and bounds in recent years. There was a time when refractors with apertures smaller than 4 inches were seldom to be recommended, but manufacturers have been pushing the capabilities of smaller apertures ever further, with optical coating
SpaceX rocket's moon crash highlights 'a tangible operational risk' of lunar settlement
The moon dust has settled after a 4.5-ton SpaceX rocket body slammed into terrain near Einstein Crater on Aug. 5.That impact site was imaged by South Korea's moon-orbiting Danuri spacecraft, as well as by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Reportedly, a Chinese commercial
India-US space ties deepen as NASA invites ISRO to join moon base program
NASA has formally invited India to participate in its effort to build a permanent base near the moon's south pole, adding a new dimension to the deep-space cooperation between the two countries.The invitation was extended last week at the Indian space agency ISRO's headquarters i
ISS photobombs the sun during solar eclipse | Space photo of the day for Aug. 14, 2026
The silhouette of the ISS transiting across the sun's face during the Aug. 12, 2026 total solar eclipse. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)This week's total solar eclipse captured the world's attention, and millions of skywatchers looked up (with the correct protective eyewear, ho
On this day in space! Aug. 14, 1992: Meteorite shower hits Uganda
On Aug. 14, 1992, a space rock entered the atmosphere over Mbale, Uganda and exploded into hundreds of pieces! Debris from this meteorite shower was strewn over an area of about 2 by 4 miles (3.2 to 6.4 kilometers), and the biggest piece weighed more than 60 pounds (27 kilograms)
Water can survive surprisingly close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, James Webb Space Telescope finds
The heart of the Milky Way may be more hospitable to water than astronomers thought.Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers detected water and cosmic dust around an aging star only 0.55 light-years from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the
Can Venus cast a shadow? Here's how to see it for yourself
Can Venus cast a shadow? With Aug. 12's total solar eclipse — where the moon's dark silhouette is everything — now behind us, it's a good time to test another kind of celestial shadow. Astronomical folklore has it that the second rock from the sun, Venus, is, after the sun and mo
US Space Force gives Rocket Lab $397 million to build threat-tracking 'Flatellites'
Amid the major uptick in national defense space contracts since the Trump Administration announced plans to assemble a "Golden Dome" missile-defense system in orbit, Rocket Lab has landed another deal to contribute to the cause. The California-based company was awarded a $397 mil