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Food Security June 6, 2025

MUST Ministries: “these children face a need like we have never seen …”

By Mark Woolsey MUST Ministries’ Summer Lunch program got underway this week, and officials with the non-profit say they may serve more children than last year, when some 7000 to…

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Health & Wellness June 6, 2025

Game theory explains why reasonable parents make vaccine choices that fuel outbreaks

by Y. Tony Yang, George Washington University and Avi Dor, George Washington University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as…

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Crime & Public Safety June 6, 2025

How illicit markets fueled by data breaches sell your personal information to criminals

by Thomas Holt, Michigan State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Every year, massive data breaches harm the public. The targets are email service providers,…

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Community Life June 5, 2025

The Battery Atlanta releases its schedule of June events

The Battery Atlanta released the following June schedule of events: As summer approaches, The Battery Atlanta heats up the fun with a diverse lineup of events designed to inspire wellness,…

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Science & Technology June 5, 2025

Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

by Jeremiah Bartz, University of North Dakota, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years…

Science & Technology June 4, 2025

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life

by Daniel Apai, University of Arizona, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and…

Government & Politics June 4, 2025

Autocrats don’t act like Hitler or Stalin anymore − instead of governing with violence, they use manipulation

by Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] President Donald Trump’s critics often accuse him of harboring authoritarian ambitions. Journalists…

Science & Technology June 4, 2025

Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while the agency faces a steep proposed budget cut

by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Over the past several days, NASA’s ambitious space exploration plans have experienced major setbacks….

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Science & Technology June 3, 2025

Robots run out of energy long before they run out of work to do − feeding them could change that

by James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2…

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Science & Technology June 3, 2025

Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?

by Wolfgang Messner, University of South Carolina, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it…

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Georgia Bureau of Investigation September 16, 2025

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