By Ari Lightman, Professor of Digital Media and Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University
The year 2026 has been an expensive one for social media platforms.
Since March, YouTube and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have settled or paid out in multiple lawsuits to the tune of more than US$17 billion for allegedly acting negligently, deliberately designing their platforms to hook kids and misleading…
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By John Paul Helveston, Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University
Sales reveal how many cars people actually bought, but not how many they actually wanted. Prices, on the other hand, show how demand is changing.
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By Peter P. Marra, Dean of The Earth Commons, Professor of Biology and the Environment, Georgetown University
Amy L. Scarpignato, Senior Species Recovery Specialist, Road to Recovery, The Earth Commons, Georgetown University
An early clue came from storks found in Europe with African arrows in their bodies. Today, an atlas reveals hundreds of bird migration routes that are both complicated and remarkable.
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By Gerard Toal, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
Temporary restrictions on crucial Ukrainian guidance system is the latest in a series of setbacks for Kyiv. It also comes amid worsening relations with Washington.
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By Thom Reilly, Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University
Secretaries of state are at the center of growing conflict over how election authority should be divided between states and the federal government. There are 26 elections for the job this November.
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By Morgan E. PettyJohn, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington
Jacob Nason, PhD Candidate in Social Work, Michigan State University
Kyla Cary, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Illinois State University
Spurred by #MeToo backlash and post-COVID loneliness, online influencers have built social media networks that give young men and boys a sense of belonging through promulgating misogyny.
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By Jaquelyn Jahn, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Drexel University
Extreme hot and cold temperatures are associated with higher rates of deaths, infirmary admissions and transfers to external medical facilities, researchers found.
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By Joshua Barocas, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
Colorado continues to face an increase in overdose deaths while other states have seen a downturn.
Illicitly manufactured fentanyl, a potent opioid, emerged in the Colorado drug market around 2018. That was nearly five years after it began tormenting people who use street drugs in Northeastern states.
By 2019, fentanyl replaced other drugs as the driving force behind opioid overdoses in Colorado, and it has held…
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By Elysia Poggi Davis, Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
Benjamin L. Hankin, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Catherine Demers, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz
Treating pregnant women’s depression with a short course of talk therapy doesn’t just improve their health – it can also shape how their babies’ brains develop before birth. That’s the finding of a new study we co-authored, published in the journal Nature Communications.
The study is part of an ongoing research project that explores how a form of brief interpersonal psychotherapy called MOMCare, which is specially tailored to treating…
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By Johanna Bard Richlin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine
Many migrants find community in evangelical churches in the U.S. – part of wider shifts in the country’s religious landscape.
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