By Linggong Kong, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Auburn University
China’s carefully staged display of unity with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un at a parade marking China’s victory over Japan in WWII projected strength abroad, but it also risks unintended consequences.
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By Aeimit Lakdawala, Associate Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
Republican-leaning economists tend to predict stronger economic growth when a Republican is president than Democrats do – and because of this partisan optimism, their forecasts end up being less accurate.
I’m an economist, and my colleagues and I found this by analyzing nearly 40 years of responses to The Wall Street Journal’s Economic Forecasting…
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By Alice Zhang, Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Penn State
Jennifer Murphy, Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
The Health To Go machines in Pennsylvania are in a YMCA in Reading and outside an emergency department in Harrisburg.
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By Stephen DiKerby, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.
“Is the Moon getting farther away from Earth?” – Judah, 9, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
The Moon is getting 1½…
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By Sura Alwan, Clinical Instructor in Medical Genetics (Teratology & Birth Defects Epidemiology); Co-Director, TERIS (The Teratogen Information System), University of British Columbia
Recent reports about medication use in pregnancy may sound distressing, but reducing complex science to alarming headlines does more harm than good.
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By Simon Blouin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astronomy, University of Victoria
Falk Herwig, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria
JJ Kavelaars, Senior Research Officer in Astronomy, National Research Council Canada, University of Victoria
Sébastien Fabbro, Adjunct Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria
The world’s largest space telescope, comprising thousands of antennae in the southern hemisphere, will generate massive amounts of data — some of which will be processed in Canada.
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By Julie Curtis, Professor of Russian Literature (Emerita), University of Oxford
While Vladimir Putin imposes ever-harsher restrictions on freedom of speech some people still seek to voice opposition to him, inside and outside Russia. The exhibition NO in Berlin was dedicated to these people – “to all those who have the courage to disagree.”
Its main focus was the respected media organisation Meduza,…
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By Elsa Devienne, Assistant Professor in History, Northumbria University, Newcastle
In October 1984, volunteers on the coast of Oregon hauled away 26 tonnes of waste in a single day, most of it plastics. It was the first beach cleanup of its kind – part scientific survey, part environmental action – and it helped expose how the plastic industry was polluting the ocean.
Today, however, beach cleanups risk becoming feel-good exercises that let the industry off the hook. Over the decades, the focus shifted. And up until fairly recently, associated reports no longer…
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By Putu Agus Khorisantono, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Janina Seubert, Principal Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Our latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst.
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By Benedict Michael, Professor, Infectious Neuroscience, University of Liverpool
A school-age child has died from a devastating brain complication of measles in Los Angeles, highlighting the deadly consequences of declining vaccination rates.
The child, who was too young to receive the measles vaccine, developed subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) – a progressive and almost always fatal brain condition that strikes years after initial measles infection.
SSPE affects around one in 10,000 people…
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