Pop, soda or coke? The fizzy history behind America’s favorite linguistic debate

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With burgers sizzling and classic rock thumping, many Americans revel in summer cookouts at least until that wayward cousin asks for a pop in soda country, or even worse, a coke when they actually want a Sprite. Few...

The hidden cost of convenience: How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies

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You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts for your location....

Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons

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When U.S. forces attacked Irans nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025, the main target was metal tubes in laboratories deep underground. The tubes are centrifuges that produce highly enriched uranium needed to build nuclear...

Bill Moyers’ journalism strengthened democracy by connecting Americans to ideas and each other, in a long and extraordinary career

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Bill Moyers? Hes spectacular! George Clooney said and no wonder. I mentioned this legendary television journalist to the actor and filmmaker after Clooney emerged from the Broadway theater where he just had been...

Mexican flags flown during immigration protests bother white people a lot more than other Americans

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Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a series of raids throughout Los Angeles and Southern California in early June 2025, sparking protests in downtown Los Angeles and other cities, including New...

Keeping brain-dead pregnant women on life support raises ethical issues that go beyond abortion politics

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Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well enough to support her developing...

Antarctic summer sea ice is at record lows. Here’s how it will harm the planet – and us

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On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the past four summers,...