By Sukhun Kang, Assistant Professor of Technology Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Some industry-funded clinical trials show signs of being designed to market drugs rather than to test them for their safety and effectiveness. Detecting these studies remains difficult.
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By Erika Yamazaki, PhD candidate in Neuroscience, Northwestern University
Ken A. Paller, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University
Annual medical checkups typically cover the basics: diet, exercise and mental state. Surprisingly, many primary care providers fail to ask about one of the fundamental contributors to well-being: sleep.
We are two neuroscientists who study sleep and memory. We have both experienced this omission with our own doctors, even though we represent different ages and genders.…
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By Nigel Melville, Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Michigan
A slew of companies have announced plans to add AI agents to their workforces. Employees can take steps to handle the changes.
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By Andrea Hagan, Instructor of Criminology & Justice, Loyola University New Orleans
A historic drop in violent crime, including the murder rate, is at risk after the cancellation of federal funding for programs that helped make the decline possible.
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By A.D. Carson, Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
Why do rap lyrics continue to be used to demonize people inside and outside the courtroom, in ways that no other art form has to contend with?
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By Peter Adams, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Using existing backup generators as regular sources of electricity would emit lots of pollution into American skies and endanger people’s health.
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By Kyle Manley, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado’s two largest fires on record, the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires, burned hundreds of thousands of acres across some of the state’s most visited landscapes in 2020.
The fires scorched trails, campgrounds and beloved ecosystems in and around Rocky Mountain National…
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By Guillermo Candiz, Assistant Professor, Human Plurality, Université de l'Ontario français
Tanya Basok, Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
The U.S. strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Global South countries is abhorrent. Migration scholars, human rights organizations and allies must co-ordinate, organize and actively resist.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A villager who had volunteered to fetch gunny bags containing food rations from the site of an air drop takes a break at a village in Ayod county, South Sudan, February 6, 2020. © 2020 Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report on South Sudan offers a damning indictment of the immense suffering to civilians caused by the country’s warring parties. The report, issued on April 28, warns that the situation is worse than anticipated, with 7.8 million people in desperate need of food aid. It notes that…
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By Tina Soliman-Hunter, Professor of Energy and Natural Resources Law, Macquarie University
Greater public fuel reserves will be held in Australia and more fuel kept in private stocks. The government’s new fuel plans are sensible – just late.
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