Why shadow tankers are the only ships still moving through the Strait of Hormuz
Many oil tankers aren't moving in the Middle East.DedMityay/iStock / Getty Images PlusThe Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Since the beginning of the conflict involving the United States, Israe...
Charles Edward Gehrke, Deputy Division Director of Wargame Design and Adjudication, US Naval War College
Trump’s war against Iran is uniquely unpopular among US military actions of the past century
Fire breaks out at the Shahran oil depot after U.S. and Israeli attacks in Tehran on March 8, 2026.Hassan Ghaedi/Anadolu via Getty ImagesIt’s clear that regime change is among the biggest object...
Charles Walldorf, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Astrophysicists trace the origin of valuable metals in space, from colliding stars to merging galaxies
This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode.ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BYBillions of light years away in a remo...
Simone Dichiara, Assistant Research Professor of Astrophysics, Penn State
Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists jumped to $22.4B in 2025 − Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates and the e…
Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank, one of the top 50 donors of 2025, talks with his son Josh Blank…
Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands’ fre…
A sculpture by Ingeborg Hunzinger commemorates the Rosenstrasse protest in Berlin.NikiSublime/Flickr…
Making good choices when life gets messy – practical wisdom relies on human judgment, not rules
This virtue helps you figure out when and how to apply the other virtues in real, varying situations…
Higher buprenorphine doses help patients stay in opioid use disorder treatment, new study finds
Patients who received 17 to 24 milligrams per day of buprenorphine stayed in treatment significantly…
Just thinking about tequila, whiskey or wine shifts your mindset – new research
Most celebrations in the U.S. involve alcohol, in large part due to marketing and advertising.Arturo…
Why cloud service outages ripple across the internet – and the economy
A cloud outage in 2024 disrupted air travel around the world.AP Photo/Ross D. FranklinWhen most peop…