These state supreme court races could decide abortion access and trans rights
By Rachel Rebouché, Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, The Conversation · October 7, 2026

Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan have open seats on their state supreme court, and these hotly contested races will influence how those courts rule in several high-stakes cases.
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IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny ‘ghost particles’ – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space
By Doug Cowen, Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State · 1h ago

Many drugs have mirror chemical structures, one helpful and the other harmful – a Nobel-winning discovery allows chemists to make either on demand
By Sajish Mathew, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore · 7h ago

From jargon to impact: Teaching undergraduates the art of public communication
By Seth T. Kannarr, Visiting Honors Lecturer, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Derek H. Alderman, Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee, Katrina Stack, Assistant Professor of U.S. Public History, University of South Florida · 12h ago