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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By Vanessa M. Conzon, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Boston College
Remote work does not necessarily mean that social connections break down. Instead, it can provide the spark for stronger and better relationships between co-workers.
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By Richard Brant, Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Law
Nikos Skoutaris, Professor of European Constitutional law, University of East Anglia
The UK’s legal framework means the independence question can keep being asked – and continue to be kicked down the road.
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By David C. Gaze, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Pathology, University of Westminster
Photos of the face and tongue helped an AI identify heart disease with 98% accuracy, but screening the general public is a much harder task.
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By Alex Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
Once the preserve of the aristocracy, rabbits became commonplace by the end of the Middle Ages as the world was turned upside down after the arrival of plague.
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