The Supreme Court upheld the law that requires 150 million Americans with health insurance to receive free preventive care services like cancer screenings and HIV prevention. Public health researchers explain why it is now vulnerable to RFK Jr.
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The Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands
The justices ruled that a key preventive health task force has authority because it is appointed by the Health and Human Services secretary. Some e...
It's called the itch-scratch cycle: when you scratch, it causes more inflammation, which makes you feel itchy.
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An itching paradox – a molecule that triggers the urge to scratch also turns down inflammation in the skin
Itch-sensing neurons in your skin are intertwined with your immune cells. Counterintuitively, the molecule that connects them triggers responses th...
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Snakes have two tongue tips for the same reason you have two ears.
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Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked tongues
Two tongue tips are better than one – an evolutionary biologist explains why snakes have forked tongues.
Some simple ways to help your pup stay calm this holiday weekend:
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Every dog has its day, but it’s not the Fourth of July
Millions of Americans love the fireworks on July 4, but millions of dogs will tremble in fear. A vet explains the causes and solutions to this dogg...
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For many #Latino youth, the Mexican flag at protests represents heritage, resilience, and identity. White Americans are far more likely than others to find it unsettling (they were also most bothered by the waving of American flags).
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Mexican flags flown during immigration protests bother white people a lot more than other Americans
White Americans, especially older citizens, tend to be more bothered than Black Americans or Latinos by demonstrators waving Mexican flags – and ...
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“It takes time, commitment to dig below the surface and discover the deeper meaning of people’s lives.” — The late Bill Moyers, who spent a lifetime doing just that through #journalism. Remembering a great American journalist:
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Bill Moyers’ journalism strengthened democracy by connecting Americans to ideas and each other, in a long and extraordinary career
A scholar who worked with him for decades observes that what mattered to Moyers was not how close you were to power, but how close you got to reality.
The U.S. bombed Iran’s nuclear sites, targeting #centrifuges that enrich uranium for weapons. A nuclear engineer breaks down why those fast-spinning metal tubes matter and how they make nuclear weapons possible:
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Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons
Iran has a long history of enriching uranium in an effort to develop nuclear weapons. It’s not clear how far the US attack set back Iran’s prod...
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Religion, public schools, and the courts, 1925 edition:
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‘Monkey Biz-ness’: Pop culture helped fan the flames of the Scopes ‘monkey trial’ 100 years ago − and ever since
Pop culture about the ‘trial of the century’ reflected broader cultural rifts.
 Religion, public schools and the courts, 2025 edition:
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In LGBTQ+ storybook case, Supreme Court handed a win to parental rights, raising tough questions for educators
SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of its blockbuster cases from 2025, largely rested on two parental rights cases from 1925 and 1972.
Your favorite free apps aren’t really free. You pay with your data. App companies collect detailed information about you and turn it into billions in ad revenue. Here’s how your daily clicks fuel a massive data economy (although not here!):
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The hidden cost of convenience: How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies
Many of the apps and social media platforms you use every day may not charge you money, but often there is a price to pay – your privacy.
The Scopes Trial of 1925 captured national attention, as celebrity lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan faced off in a high-stakes clash over evolution and religion in public schools. A century later, that debate still echoes in U.S. classrooms. Creationist beliefs haven’t faded — today, 1 in 4 Americans still reject #evolution.
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1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.
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