By Sven Bilén, Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
Wangda Zuo, Professor of Architectural Engineering, Penn State
A data center could get more solar power and be kept much colder in space, but it would be extremely difficult to repair and update.
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By Matt Motta, Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
Robert Ralston, Lecturer in Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
The rapidly growing popularity of prediction markets is sparking worries about the markets’ effects on US politics, where campaign staff has bet on its candidate’s electoral performance.
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By Adam Lark, Associate Professor of Instruction for Physics, Hamilton College
Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?
As the director of the Peters Observatory at Hamilton College, I have seen many similar streaks across the sky, as I spend late nights at the observatory, and I am here to tell you that what you saw isn’t a star at all. You observed the end of a comet or asteroid’s 4.6-billion-year journey right before…
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By Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of South Carolina
Electric utilities don’t make money from selling power to customers, but instead profit from investments in power plants, wires, substations and other equipment.
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By Rodney Coates, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
Enslaved people were not just enslaved physically, but mentally as well. as widespread laws in the South barred enslaved people from receiving an education.
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By Nathaniel Warner, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Penn State
Lisa Emili, Associate Professor of Physical Geography and Environmental Studies, Penn State
Raymond Najjar, Professor of Oceanography, Penn State
Researchers have long known that plastic pollution reaches the ocean. But how much plastic is trapped, and where, before it reaches the ocean is far less understood.
As professors of environmental engineering, geography and environmental studies, and oceanography at Penn State, we recently…
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By Kaitlyn Rabe, Lecturer in Geopolitics, The Ohio State University
Western forces have largely beat a hasty retreat from Africa’s coup-prone Sahel region in recent years.
In 2022, French forces departed Mali as insurgents made incursions into the capital, Bamako. A United Nations peacekeeping mission also left, with the security void filled by Russian…
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By Emily Setty, Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Surrey
Perhaps the greatest danger is not that restrictions fail, but that they succeed just enough to convince us that the work is done.
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By Darby Saxbe, Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.
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By Martha E. Walls, Associate Professor, History, Mount Saint Vincent University
Cornelia Schneider, Professor, Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
YouTuber Jesse Ridgway’s post about his family’s decision to terminate a pregnancy due to a Down syndrome diagnosis has sparked debate about the persistence of eugenics narratives.
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