By Ben Rosa, Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
Contractors affected by affirmative action bans at the state level saw a drop in employee head count but were no less likely to go out of business.
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By Laura K. Gee, Associate Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Kristy Buzard, Associate Professor of Economics and Melvin A. Eggers Faculty Scholar, Syracuse University
Olga Stoddard, Associate Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
The start of the school year brings a familiar list of responsibilities for parents: buying school supplies, keeping track of forms, coordinating transportation and responding to a steady stream of emails from teachers and administrators.
Although many families strive to share these responsibilities, research has consistently found that mothers tend to shoulder a larger share of the work tied to their kids’ schooling. That includes…
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By Amy Myers Jaffe, Director, Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab, and Research Professor, New York University; Tufts University
Cooking gas and diesel fuel are among the oil products whose supply levels have been affected already. Here’s why to expect long-term shortages.
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By Lucy McGowan, Associate Professor of Statistical Sciences, Wake Forest University
The instinct to “do your own research” when it comes to your health is a good one. The challenge often is not lack of information, but the opposite.
People are surrounded by studies, headlines, forums, family and friends, often all speaking at once in different directions and with different levels of reliability. How do you move through this abundance of information without getting lost in it?
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By Aliasger K. Salem, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Iowa
If Spider-Man were real, he could help scientists revolutionize healthcare. Since he’s not, researchers develop creative ways to produce spider silk to study.
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By Kathi Inman Berens, Professor of Book Publishing and Digital Humanities, Portland State University
Rachel Noorda, Associate Professor of Publishing, Portland State University
Despite dire warnings of a ‘postliterate’ generation, data suggests Gen Z is still reading – just in ways many traditional studies fail to capture.
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By Stevens Rehen, Pesquisador, Instituto D’Or de Pesquisa e Ensino (IDOR); Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Carolina Moreira Voloch, Professora associada do Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Renato Santana Aguiar, Virologista e pesquisador Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino e, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
As cases surged in 2024 in Brazil, reports also emerged of deaths and babies born with microcephaly and other congenital malformations linked to Oropouche virus infection.
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By Thomas Adam, Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas
American churches could not rely on the state for financial support. Private philanthropy helped them survive – and shaped the country’s religious diversity today.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Albanese government will expand the scheme providing incentives to households and businesses to acquire renewable energy to enable larger businesses, farms and community facilities to install solar systems up to ten times bigger than presently allowed.
Energy minister Chris Bowen will announce the broadening of the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme on Wednesday, saying it will address the “missing middle” in Australia’s energy transition.
“The missing middle is mid-scale solar,” he says in his speech to the National Press Club, part of which has been released ahead…
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By Daniel Gagnon, Professeur agrégé, Université de Montréal
Thomas Deshayes, Professeur adjoint, Faculté des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
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