By Ashwini Sehgal, Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
More than one-third of American households rely on natural gas stoves to prepare their meals.
Burning natural gas generates carbon dioxide, which is the main driver of climate change. But cooking on gas stoves is also an under-recognized and important source of indoor air pollution. Combustion of natural gas creates nitrogen…
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By Jeffrey Young, Principal Research Scientist, Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment, Georgia Institute of Technology
You’ve probably heard artificial intelligence models described as “open” or “closed.” These are not descriptions of the model’s personality. Large language model AIs like the one under the hood of ChatGPT don’t have actual personalities, despite appearances.
The labels refer to whether all of the information about how an AI model works is publicly available and the model can be modified, or whether the model’s developer keeps its inner workings secret and the model itself private property.
Open-source software
The concept of open-source software originated in the…
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By Karen Stollznow, Senior Research Fellow of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University
Translation is only part of the challenge for multinational companies. Words, slogans and symbols can take on entirely different meanings across cultures.
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By Laurel Elder, Professor of Political Science, Hartwick College
Mary-Kate Lizotte, Professor of Political Science, Augusta University
Steven Greene, Professor of Political Science, North Carolina State University
More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether.
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By Andrew E. Busch, Professor and Associate Director, Institute of American Civics, University of Tennessee
Shifting counts have a boring cause: who votes by mail, and when those votes get counted. That doesn’t mean all fraud claims are false, though.
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By Kerri J. Malloy, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University
Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.
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By Krista Mehari, Associate Professor of Public Health, Michigan State University
Detroit police officers detained more than 180 minors during a fireworks celebration on June 22, 2026. Most offenses were curfew violations, and the event was generally peaceful.
Large gatherings of young people in public spaces coordinated through social media, known as “
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students’ reading habits, or rather nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than an unfounded nostalgia for a bygone age.
Reading – not just any kind of reading, but reading long, complex, challenging books – is quickly vanishing from the American…
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By Aliasger K. Salem, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Iowa
Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share their findings and collaborate with each other.
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By Eszter Szekely, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, McGill University
Babywearing is an an ancient practice found across cultures for thousands of years. What is new is the growing scientific interest in its benefits.
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