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2023–2024

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May 27, 2024
Guilty: Trump Becomes First Former President to Be Convicted of Felony Crimes
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May 20, 2024
Five Things to Know about Memorial Day, including Its Evolution and Controversies
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May 13, 2024
If You Think You Can’t Focus for Long, You’re Right
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May 6, 2024
Deep-Sea Mining: Can It Help Solve Our Climate Problems?
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April 29, 2024
If Schools Won’t Ban Kids’ Cellphones, Some Lawmakers Say They Will
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April 22, 2024
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers with AI
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April 15, 2024
What the Supreme Court Case on Tent Encampments Could Mean for Homeless People
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April 8, 2024
Most Work Is New Work, Long-Term Study of U.S. Census Data Shows
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April 1, 2024
The April 8 Solar Eclipse Will Bring Weird Sights, Sounds and Feelings
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March 25, 2024
NAACP Calls on Black Student-Athletes to Boycott Florida Public Colleges over Anti-DEI Policy
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March 18, 2024
Rising Cocoa Prices May Cause a Chocolate Shortage
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March 11, 2024
Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Team Votes to Unionize
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March 4, 2024
Daylight Saving 2024: When and Why Do The Clocks Change?
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February 26, 2024
Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?
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February 19, 2024
The Ecosystem Inside You
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February 12, 2024
Jury Finds Jennifer Crumbley, the Michigan School Shooter’s Mother, Guilty of Manslaughter
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February 5, 2024
Why Scientists Are Starting to Worry about the Moon Shrinking
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January 29, 2024
Can Trump Be on the Ballot?
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January 22, 2024
Stress Drains Your Body’s Battery. Here’s How You Can Recharge It
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January 15, 2024
Even a Little Alcohol Can Harm Your Health
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January 8, 2024
U.S. and British Militaries Launch Massive Retaliatory Strike Against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen
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January 1, 2024
Feeling Caucus Confusion? Your Guide to How Iowa Works
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December 25, 2023
We Carry DNA from Extinct Cousins Like Neanderthals. Science Is Now Revealing Their Genetic Legacy
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December 18, 2023
At My School, the Closing of the Teenage Mind Is Almost Complete
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December 11, 2023
The Very First Thing Hackers Do as Criminals
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December 4, 2023
Tires Are Saving Us—and Killing Us, too
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November 27, 2023
How to Live in Less Fear
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November 20, 2023
The Surge in Child Labor
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November 13, 2023
Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion is Wrong
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November 6, 2023
Opposites Don’t Attract: Couples More Likely to Be Similar than Different, Study Shows
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October 30, 2023
How Many Transgender and Intersex People Live in the US?
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October 23, 2023
Israel-Hamas War: The Gaza Strip and Its History, Explained
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October 16, 2023
NASA Collected a Sample from an Asteroid for the First Time—Here’s Why It Matters
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October 9, 2023
Surgeons Perform Second Pig Heart Transplant, Trying to Save a Dying Man
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October 2, 2023
A Black Student Was Suspended for His Hairstyle. The School Says It Wasn’t Discrimination
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September 25, 2023
The ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Our Water
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September 18, 2023
‘Wiretaps on Wheels’: How Your Car Is Collecting and Selling Your Personal Data
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September 11, 2023
Students Can’t Get Off Their Phones. Schools Have Had Enough.
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September 4, 2023
Montana Judge Hands Young Plaintiffs Significant Victory in Landmark Climate Trial
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August 28, 2023
Fulton County Grand Jury Indicts Trump, Giuliani, Other Associates in 2020 Election Investigation
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August 21, 2023
Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?
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