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Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients - Sukhun Kang, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ivan Lin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sungyong Chang, Cornell University

14 hours ago

Canada is kicking its US booze habit as trade tensions persist -- Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee

17 hours ago

Thousands of employed Colorado workers need SNAP benefits to make ends meet -- Jennifer C. Greenfield, University of Denver

8 days ago

AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips − even though they don't use the same kinds -- Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University

6 days ago

Supreme Court considers how much states can protect consumers when federal agencies won't -- Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University

7 days ago

So your new 'co-worker' is an AI agent – here's how to make the best of your human-machine relationship -- Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

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3 months ago

What's in the price of a gallon of gas? -- Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

7 days ago

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what's happening in each country tells a harder story -- Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University

1 month ago

UAE's OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignment -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

10 days ago

Global supply chains cause environmental harm, but they can help repair it too -- Minelle Silva, University of Manitoba; Jia Yen Lai, Monash University, and Lee Matthews, University of Nottingham

9 days ago

Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are coming -- Aya S. Chacar, Florida International University

1 month ago

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1 month ago

What we lose when artificial intelligence does our shopping -- Mark Bartholomew, University at Buffalo and Samuel Becher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

14 days ago

Food aid doesn't make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs -- Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College

1 month ago

25 million people lost Medicaid after the COVID-19 pandemic — and state policies shaped who stayed covered -- Aparna Soni, Indiana University

24 days ago

Signs of economic instability emerge in Oakland County, one of Michigan's wealthiest -- Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University and Jordyn Gerwig, Eastern Michigan University

16 days ago

Sorry, Tampa Bay, mixed-use districts don't reverse the dismal economics of sports venues -- J.C. Bradbury, Kennesaw State University

15 days ago

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

Perseverance doesn't always pay off for companies – sometimes it's better to 'fail fast' -- Scott Friend, University of Dayton and Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, EDHEC Business School

10 days ago

Hosting the NFL draft is less about weekend beer sales and more about long-term brand value -- Tim Derdenger, Carnegie Mellon University

28 days ago

What I learned from analyzing 789 'Shark Tank' pitches: Narcissists get funding if they're not arrogant or defensive -- Paul Sanchez Ruiz, Iowa State University

1 month ago

Cannabis legalization spurs innovation, but not always in ways that benefit patients or public health -- Lucy Xiaolu Wang, UMass Amherst and Nathan W. Chan, UMass Amherst

24 days ago

Why women in groups face a 'collaboration penalty' that solo female stars like Taylor Swift and Coco Gauff escape -- David Hekman, University of Colorado Boulder and Mallory Decker, University of Colorado Boulder

22 days ago

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1 year ago

Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly -- Ann Juliano, Villanova University

1 month ago

For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers' expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame -- Beth Schinoff, University of Delaware and Elana Feldman, UMass Lowell

1 month ago

Big beautiful refund? 5 tax code changes that may put more money in your pocket -- Jim Franklin, Western Governors University School of Business

1 month ago

Family-friendly workplaces are great − but 'families of 1' get ignored -- Peter McGraw, University of Colorado Boulder

1 month ago

Denmark's generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the 'motherhood penalty' for working moms -- Alexandra Killewald, University of Michigan

3 months ago

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1 year ago

How personal finance advice is getting political, thanks to 'finfluencers' -- Maximilian Brichta, University of Virginia

15 days ago

What oil, stocks and bonds are telling us about the Iran conflict and how long it might last -- Daniele D'Alvia, Queen Mary University of London

2 months ago

SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple did, as companies go public later in life and early investors cash out -- Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame

1 month ago

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets -- Parker Bach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1 month ago

International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better -- Sarah Stroup, Middlebury College and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University

3 months ago

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1 year ago

Trump administration's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoing -- Beth Gazley, Indiana University

11 days ago

Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity -- George E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY

1 month ago

Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists jumped to $22.4B in 2025 − Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates and the estate of Paul Allen lead a list of the biggest givers -- David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Hans Peter Schmitz, North Carolina State University, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University - Newark

1 month ago

With less charitable giving flowing directly to charities, a tax policy scholar suggests some policy fixes -- Ray Madoff, Boston College

4 months ago

Getting $750 a month didn't end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people -- Benjamin F. Henwood, University of Southern California

1 month ago

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1 year ago

Dogs display many traits of great leaders − here are 5 breeds that can be your leadership role models -- Aditya Simha, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

17 hours ago

Why Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, won't stop 'til she gets enough from his estate -- Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

1 month ago