By Sarah Price, Research Fellow at the Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University
Insulation is designed to make heating our homes more efficient, but if it isn’t installed properly it can sometimes lead to condensation, damp and mould. Recently UK government ministers revealed the scale of the issue and reported that thousands of homes may have had botched insulation fitted since 2022 under a government scheme called the Energy Company Obligation.
Many people have also told…
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By Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder
Mary Angelica Painter, Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder
Micki Olson, Senior Researcher in Emergency and Risk Communication, University at Albany, State University of New York
Increasing awareness can help close the gap on the number of people signed up for emergency alerts, but that won’t happen without increased accessibility.
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By Lee Bebout, Professor of English, Arizona State University
Trying to change someone’s mind can seem futile. But there are approaches to political discourse that still matter, even if they don’t instantly win someone over.
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By Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Liam Longo, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Institute of Science Tokyo
A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as researchers previously thought it did.
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By Remy Dou, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning, University of Miami
STEM jobs – ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber – tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented in these fields. New research suggests one reason starts in kids’ homes.
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By Delphine Farmer, Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Mj Riches, Postdoctoral Researcher studying Plant-Atmosphere Interactions, Colorado State University
Rose Rossell, Ph.D. Student in Plant and Atmospheric Chemistry, Colorado State University
When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.
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By Jerrid Kruse, Professor of Science Education, Drake University
During my years teaching science in middle school, high school and college, some of my students have resisted teaching that educators call higher-order thinking. This includes analysis, creative and critical thinking, and problem-solving.
For example, when I asked them to draw conclusions from data or generate a process for testing…
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By Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Nino Cricco, Doctoral Student in Sociology, Harvard University
Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress toward closing the gender pay gap grew sluggish too.
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By Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Mortgage fraud is back in the news. Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, is being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements when applying for a mortgage. Members of Donald…
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By Jason Reed, Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame
The Federal Reserve is in a nearly impossible spot right now.
Markets are expecting a quarter-point interest rate cut to a range of 4% to 4.25% when the Fed policy-setting committee concludes its latest meeting on Sept. 17, 2025. After all, the slowdown…
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