Plus: Navigating health insurance jargon
| | | | Top headlines Lead story Mosquitoes can be bad news. Beyond their infuriatingly itchy bites – something I'm all too familiar with – these pests spread diseases that kill over 770,000 people worldwide every year. In the fight against mosquitoes, understanding more about how these tiny flying vampires find their human blood meals could be helpful in designing better ways to defend against them. To that end, Georgia Tech researcher David Hu sent his student into a room with 100 mosquitoes. After recording "more mosquito flight data than had previously been measured in human history," his team was able to figure out how mosquitoes move in response to various cues. Can you guess which part of a sacrificial grad student insects ended up concentrated around? For a visual answer, check out Hu's animation of mosquitoes' flight tracks made up of flybys, double takes and spirals. [ Miss us on Sundays? Get a selection of our best and most popular stories (or try our other weekly emails). ] |  | Maggie Villiger Senior Science + Technology Editor | |  Trajectories of mosquitoes flying around a human target. David L. Hu, Georgia Tech David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology Analyzing 20 million recorded mosquito flight paths revealed the mathematical rules behind how these tiny predators move and zero in on their human targets. | Politics + Society | -
Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell Geopolitical violence abroad translates into homegrown threats in the US and Canada. Recent antisemitic attacks show how the Jewish community is a target of those threats. -
Andrea Hickerson, University of Mississippi In the face of little information, or misinformation, about the war in Iran, media literacy can prove a valuable tool to assess what's happening on the ground. | | Environment + Energy | -
Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines; Adam Charles Simon, University of Michigan There's lots of copper in the ground, but demand is already outstripping usable supply – and the shortfall is likely to get worse. -
Philip Landrigan, Boston College; Ella Whitman, University of Vermont A new study linking Pittsburgh's air pollution to thousands of deaths each year has been published just as the EPA moves to weaken pollution standards. | | Education | -
Beth Kania-Gosche, Missouri University of Science and Technology The Trump administration's new child care subsidy rules are the latest measure to challenge the struggling industry. | | Economy + Business | -
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University; Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University; Yuan An, Carnegie Mellon University Base pay rose as intended, but the drivers' total compensation, including tips, didn't increase. -
Christopher Niezrecki, UMass Lowell Suspending the Jones Act will increase the supply of fuel by allowing foreign-flagged ships to transport oil between US ports, which should eventually educe gas prices. | | Science + Technology | -
Adam Stanaland, University of Richmond; Andrea Vial, New York University Abu Dhabi Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age. | | Health + Medicine | -
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, UMass Amherst; Michal Horný, UMass Amherst The US health insurance system requires that people make strategic and often risky decisions about how much health insurance they can afford and how much coverage they might need. | | Ethics + Religion | -
Beth DuFault, University of Portland Scores are ubiquitous today, from data in parenting apps to fitness monitors. For some users, those scores start to shape a sense of right and wrong. | | | | Video 📽️ |
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