By Ilan Stavans, Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
Many Americans associate Yiddish strictly with Eastern Europe. But its horizons are much broader than that, especially amid today’s revival.
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By Kimberly Baker, Food Systems and Safety Program Team Director, Clemson University
From eggs and jalapenos to dog food, granola and pet turtles – it seems like you can catch a Salmonella infection from just about anything these days.
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By K. R. Prathyusha, Research Associate, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
You might naturally expect a wide, open path to be faster and easier to navigate than a narrow one, just as birds fly freely through the open sky, cars move quickly on empty roads, and a wide hallway seems easier when trying to exit a building.
However, many organisms do not have the option to move through open spaces. Whether burrowing through soil or swimming through water, they’re forced to maneuver through narrow gaps in tiny pores, rocks, roots, plants or other obstacles.
My team’s recent research on California blackworms suggests that, sometimes, such
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By Abigail Witmer, Assistant Clinical Professor of Optometry, The Ohio State University
Some animal species have their eyes positioned on their heads differently than how people do – and it comes with pluses and minuses for how they see.
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By Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Indictments of a longtime extremism researcher and her former organization raise a crucial question for researchers in the field: What are the ethical limits on research about often-dangerous groups?
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By John C. Besley, Professor of Public Relations, Michigan State University
Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s – and what experts can do about it.
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By Suzanne McLeod, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Kathryn Blackman, Adjunct Lecturer, Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Program, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A significant amount of Philadelphia public schools’ technology and other equipment goes missing each year due to poor inventory and tracking.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
An analysis by the Treasury forecasts that AI has the potential to have a bigger impact on high-skilled and cognitive jobs, not just physical and routine roles.
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By Dereje Melese Liyew, Lecturer and Reseacher, Political Science, Debre Markos University,
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has been one of Ethiopia’s most influential institutions for more than 1,600 years. Church and state were closely intertwined from the official adoption of Christianity in the 4th century until the overthrow of the imperial regime in 1974.
The church has shaped the political order, education systems and cultural identity. It remains one of the country’s largest religious institutions, along with Islam and protestant Christianity. About 43%…
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By Vera Weisbecker, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
Andrew Pask, Professor, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Douglass S Rovinsky, Associate Research Scientist, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Some 90 years after the death of the last documented thylacine – better known as the Tasmanian tiger – the species remains a global symbol of human-made extinction.
The carnivorous marsupial fell victim to 19th-century colonists’ perception that unfamiliar creatures were primitive, vermin-like imitations of more familiar European animals. The species was later exterminated due to sensationalist claims that it was a ferocious, wolf-like predator of sheep.
However, our new
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