By Enrique Gaztanaga, Professor of Astrophysics at Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could explain dark matter, one of the biggest unsolved questions in cosmology.
Generally speaking, black holes are regions of spacetime where matter is compressed into a tiny space. Dark matter, meanwhile, is matter that does not reflect or absorb light. We know it exists because of its gravitational influence on galaxies and other cosmic structures.
It can be viewed as the…
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By Richard Hargy, Visiting Research Fellow in International Studies, Queen's University Belfast
The US is bracing for another cycle of elections, with November’s midterms determining the scope of Donald Trump’s power in the final two years of his presidency. All seats in the House of Representatives will be contested, as will one-third of the Senate.
Trump’s Republican party currently controls both branches of Congress. However, polls are indicating a swing to the Democrats that would see them retake the House. A current RealClear generic congressional…
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By Robin Styles, Researcher in the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein is Deborah Levy’s latest genre-defying novel. It is at once a compelling contemporary fiction and an extended meditation on the importance of Stein, who Levy describes as the godmother of modernism, a queer icon, a self-declared genius and a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century.
The structure of Levy’s novel artfully embraces many of Stein’s concerns. Stein was an artist…
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
Why do medical students remember rude mnemonics decades later? The answer reveals something fascinating about how all of us learn and remember.
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By Christos Makridis, Associate Research Professor of Information Systems, Arizona State University; Institute for Humane Studies
Estimates of artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs and the economy range from the apocalyptic to the utopian, but the data tells a more nuanced story.
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By Shayann Ramedani, Research Collaborator at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Penn State
Daniel R. George, Professor of Humanities and Public Health Sciences, Penn State
Rural hospitals have high fixed costs, low patient volume and a large portion of patients insured through Medicaid, which typically pays less than private insurers.
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By James R. Elliott, Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Dominic Boyer, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
Yilei Yu, Senior Researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography, Rice University
Computer models of the storm hitting different areas show how much damage is possible, yet flood maps still focus on where flooding is most likely instead.
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By Diana Hernández, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
Households once confident they could afford energy costs are at risk of falling behind on their bills and are making hard trade-offs to keep the lights on.
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By Eric R. Hudson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrei Derevianko, Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
Most clocks, from wristwatches to the systems that run GPS and the internet, work by tracking regular, repeating motions.
To build a clock, you need something that ticks in a perfectly repeatable way. In a pendulum clock, that tick is the regular swinging of the pendulum: back and forth, back and forth, at nearly the same rate each time.
Our team of physicists studies whether an even better kind of clock…
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By Panteha Torabian, Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Bacteria don’t quietly die when exposed to antibiotics – they actively respond in ways that in turn change how your body responds to infection.
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