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Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto turned architecture into horror’s greatest weapon
Threateningly ill-defined buildings, enough for our imagination to fill in the gaps, seem to be the ideal catalyst to spark terror.
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Month: October 2026
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How London’s 1838 ‘great stink’ created the modern vampire
Before germ theory, the Victorians had another name for contagion: Dracula.
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When things go bump in the night: how our brains trick us into hearing things that aren’t there
The boundaries between sleep and wakefulness can become blurred.
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How the law protecting Americans from surprise medical bills is driving up healthcare costs
A handful of providers are hijacking the arbitration process – and consumers are likely to foot the bill.
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Faculty and students show how reporting is done when a university partners with local news
Some universities are developing innovative arrangements with universities where students help report and faculty provide guidance.
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Driverless 18-wheelers are on a few highways, but widespread use is a long way down the road
Chaotic roads are still too difficult for automated trucks to navigate.
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We discovered an organism that lives at blistering temperatures – but what allows it to take the heat?
This amoeba lives at hotter temperatures than any other eukaryote previously discovered.
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What is Sharia law, and why is it so controversial in the United States?
Ordinary Muslim religious practices can often be treated as political threats, writes a law professor.
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Federal policy helped widen rural America’s fresh food gap, but a 90-year-old law could help close it
A food systems researcher shows how trucking deregulation and lax antitrust enforcement let big grocery chains grow as rural distribution thinned.
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Democrats are the unwitting beneficiaries of Trump’s immigration policies
A quiet US-Mexico border, and the reduced urgency of undocumented immigration, has deprived Republicans of an issue that previously energized voters and offered conservatives an advantage.
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Political information increasingly comes from pop culture, outside of partisan silos but where male creators – and sometimes misogyny – dominate
Younger Americans’ pop culture favorites have multipartisan appeal, but male creators dominate the list of top influencers, podcasters and comedians.
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Before bans for under-16s, we need to ask: what counts as social media?
People do not consistently agree on what counts as social media