By Cristóbal Castro Barrientos, PhD candidate, NZ Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
New targets would lift revenue to $7.2 billion and enrolments to 119,000 by 2034. But housing pressure, market concentration and graduate outcomes pose real risks.
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By Jeanette Ashe, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Women's Leadership, King's College London
Fiona MacDonald, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia
Repositioning Canada in the global hierarchy does not mean leaving 50 per cent of the population behind. Now, more than ever before, it’s critical to double down on the commitment to equity.
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By Matt Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Coastal Carolina University
Ina Seethaler, Associate Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies, Coastal Carolina University
With legend Andre Galvao accused of sexual misconduct, gyms and athletes have been forced to confront a culture of silence, hierarchy and gender blindness in the sport.
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By Neringa Klumbytė, Professor of Anthropology, Miami University; Lithuanian Institute of History
Humor has served many functions since Russia’s full-scale invasion, from providing Ukrainians with a sense of escape and hope to spreading news.
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By Dylan Spencer, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Georgia Southern University
Gohar Petrossian, Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Stephen Pires, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Florida International University
In late February 2026, the Panamanian government took control of two ports in the Panama Canal that had been operated by a Hong Kong conglomerate for two decades. The move is the latest in a long-simmering legal battle after Panama’s high court voided the company’s contracts.
Far from just a local dispute, however, the episode has drawn in the United States and China, whose competition over global ports and trade routes has intensified in recent years, including in the…
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By Houlong Zhuang, Associate Professor of Engineering, Arizona State University
Vitor Rielli, Lecturer in Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney
AI models are designing new metal alloys that have been 3D-printed and tested in the lab. The results are then fed back into the AI to accelerate alloy discovery.
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By Marcos Fernandez Tous, Assistant Professor of Space Studies, University of North Dakota
Artemis II has been plagued by similar issues to those faced by its predecessor, leading NASA to shake up its plan to return humans to the Moon.
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By Eric Horstick, Associate Professor of Biology, West Virginia University
Being left- or right-handed – and the paw, eye, fin and wing equivalents – is a product of genes, development and the environment.
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By Leila Gautham, Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds
Nancy Folbre, Professor Emerita of Economics, UMass Amherst
When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.
But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning and lawn mowing – is produced by unpaid labor that never appears in these conventional measures.…
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By Linda Argote, Thomas Lord Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory; Director, Center of Organizational Learning, Innovation and Knowledge, Carnegie Mellon University
Jeremy M. Kahn, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh
A new study from a Pittsburgh hospital finds that trauma patients recover faster when emergency medical teams have shared experience working together.
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