By Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
The leading parties that have dominated British politics for decades are badly wounded, and nationalism is also rising in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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By David W. Stowe, Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
William Billings has been largely forgotten, except among music historians. But he was the country’s first notable composer, penning protest songs against Great Britain.
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By Parth Vaishnav, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems Climate + Energy, University of Michigan
Miki Tsuchiya, Ph.D. Candidate, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has proposed a $1 fee on all Uber, Lyft and other rideshare trips in the city to help fund public schools.
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By Katrine L. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois Chicago
To stop the spread of infectious diseases, governments need information and other resources that countries around the globe share through international organizations.
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By Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
When you ask a large language model a question, the reply may include falsehoods, and if you challenge those statements with facts, the AI may still uphold the reply as true. That’s what my research group found when we asked five leading models to describe scenes in movies or novels that don’t actually exist.
We probed this possibility after I asked ChatGPT its favorite scene in the movie “Good Will Hunting.” It noted a…
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By Karen Stollznow, Senior Research Fellow of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University
Exaggerating phrases and talking in a sing-song way can actually help, not make it harder, for young children to master speaking a language.
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By Jane Stewart, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Colorado State University
David Sterle, Research Scientist in Pomology, Colorado State University
In western Colorado, home to the treasured Palisade peach, cytospora canker is one of the most economically consequential fungal diseases faced by growers.
A recent survey conducted by Colorado State University in Orchard Mesa found that 100% of the orchards have trees infected with cytospora canker. In some orchards, you can smell the sweetness of gummosis, the sweet oozing of sap from a tree that…
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By Michael J. Bustamante, Associate Professor of History, University of Miami
Cubans are using AI image generators to imagine US intervention in their country. The results look straight out of the 1890s.
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By Yan Bennett, Professorial Lecturer, American University
On the issue of contested island, both US and China appear happy to keep with the status quo. Meanwhile, the presence of US Defense chief hints at Washington’s desire for a military ‘hotline.’
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By Graham Finlayson, Professor of Biological Psychology, University of Leeds
Catherine Gibbons, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Leeds
Jason Halford, Professor of Biological Psychology and Health Behaviours, University of Leeds
It’s the ultimate win-win that food scientists have been seeking for over a century. But replacing the sweet stuff turns out to be much harder than anyone imagined.
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