Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Mothers who've been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
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By Meg Warren, Associate Professor of Management, Western Washington University
John M. LaVelle, Adjunct Professor, Public Policy, University of Minnesota
Michael T. Warren, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Western Washington University
The impostor phenomenon shows up with allyship too, new research shows. When people wrongly feel like they don’t have the skills to support their colleagues, the result can be a vicious cycle.
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By Ari Koeppel, Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Scientist and Adjunct Associate, Dartmouth College
What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question as they face budget uncertainties.
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By Anya Foxen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, California Polytechnic State University
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Instructional Assistant Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston
Drawn from tantric traditions, Kundalini points to spiritual practices that go beyond traditionally understood concepts of the masculine and feminine.
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By Ramazan Kılınç, Professor of Political Science, Kennesaw State University
During his visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV met several leaders of Christian communities and worked to promote cooperation between Christians and Muslims.
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By Julien Benoit, Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Emese M Bordy, Professor in Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town
Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was early citizen science.
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By Robert Muggah, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
Brazil’s “criminal economy” does not appear on any national balance sheet. Yet the cost of violence, contraband, tax evasion and environmental crime can be measured in the tens of billions of dollars every year and serves as a major drag on Brazil’s economic growth and stability.
Attempts to quantify this burden go back at least a decade. An influential 2017…
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By Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
When Sabrina Carpenter’s provocative 2024 pop single “Bed Chem” plays on the radio, and I hear the lyrics
“But I bet we’d have really good bed chem / How you pick me up, pull ‘em down, turn me 'round / Oh, it just makes sense / How you talk so sweet when you’re doing bad things”
it reminds me of a song released 45 years earlier:
“Let’s take a shower, said a shower together, yes / I’ll wash your body and you’ll wash mine, yeah / Rub me…
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By Tim Slack, Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University
Shannon M. Monnat, Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wisdom.
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By William McCorkle, Associate Professor of Education, College of Charleston
Not letting undocumented students pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities can make the cost of a college education prohibitive.
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