U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying access to your location data from private companies – getting around the need for a warrant. A privacy researcher explains how your phone's everyday operations make this possible.
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Yes, the government can track your location – but usually not by spying on you directly
A privacy researcher breaks down how your phone reveals your location, how that data is collected and sold, and how the government gets ahold of it...
A largely-overlooked Trump presidential memorandum pushes the limits of his authority by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions.
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Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms
A new Trump administration policy threatens free speech and association by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based ...
Google's Project Suncatcher would cluster 81 satellites less than 200 meters apart in one of Earth's most congested orbits, to create a solar-powered orbiting data center. The hitch? The likelihood of cascading collisions with space debris.
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Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris in an already crowded orbit
Google’s Project Suncatcher would need sophisticated collision avoidance capabilities to navigate a junk-filled landscape.
American colleges face more and deeper challenges than huge federal funding cuts: declining enrollment, rising skepticism about the value of college, and a shrinking pool of international students willing to pay full tuition.
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Federal funding cuts are only one problem facing America’s colleges and universities
Amid federal funding cuts, the enrollment of both domestic and foreign students is falling at American colleges and universities.
8 Colorado children died in domestic violence incidents in 2024, most amid active custody disputes. Preventing deaths would start with better data collection.
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Why protecting Colorado children from dying of domestic violence is such a hard problem
Lethal domestic violence is persistent, despite a statewide decline in overall homicides.
AI data centers are driving massive electricity demand. Small modular reactors could help meet it, but they won't be commercially available until the mid-2030s at earliest. An engineer focused on the nuclear industry explains what you need to know about this emerging technology.
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What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?
Rising electricity demand has researchers exploring a wide range of methods to generate more power, including a type of nuclear reactor that’s sm...
Tens of thousands of federal workers lost their jobs in 2025, but something unexpected emerged: they organized online to share information about unemployment benefits and emotional support during layoffs – often with colleagues they'd never interacted with outside of work.
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A hard year for federal workers offers a real-time lesson in resilience
During a year of extraordinary uncertainty, workers built resilient networks within and across boundaries and distance. An anthropologist explains ...
When it comes to securing a lasting peace in Ukraine, scholars focused on peace monitoring say there’s one key element missing from Trump’s plan: a mandate for a robust, independent monitoring team.
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Lasting peace in Ukraine may hinge on independent monitors – yet Trump’s 28-point plan barely mentions them
Building in safeguards, including third-party monitoring, can increase the chances of a successful peace by almost a third, research shows.
It’s not heart vs. head after all. Caring and thinking are intricately intertwined in making us more generous. Empathy and reasoning actually work together and people who have more of either one are more likely to help strangers and make choices that help the most people.
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Empathy and reasoning aren’t rivals – new research shows they work together to drive people to help more
Those driven by both heart and mind help the most people, even far beyond their own circle.
Family businesses aren’t just small shops – they produce 2/3 of the world’s economic output. They thrive because they “win without fighting,” keeping competitors out by using family ties and low-cost decision-making.
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Why do family companies even exist? They know how to ‘win without fighting’
My team analyzed decades of research on family businesses to find out their secret sauce. Three key differences help them keep an edge over competi...