By Amnesty International
Reacting to the news that Venezuelan democracy activist and opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International said: “This is an important recognition to María Corina Machado, but also to the people of Venezuela who, for years, […] The post Global: Nobel Peace Prize honours María Corina Machado and the pro-democracy movement in Venezuela appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Julie Dobrow, Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University
Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman’s 19th-century interracial marriage made them a media sensation. But tensions over gender, race and identity ultimately proved too hard to overcome.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag during a protest at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, US, August 19, 2025. © 2025 David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images (New York, October 10, 2025) – Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Access Now, and other leading human rights groups said in a letter previously privately sent to Microsoft and published today.An…
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By Frédéric Dimanche, Professor and former Director (2015-2025), Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
Kelley A. McClinchey, Teaching Faculty, Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
A shutdown of the United States federal government started on Oct. 1 after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to reach an agreement on the funding legislation required to finance the government.
Tens of thousands of government employees will continue working without pay, and some may be furloughed, affecting many public services with interruptions or delays, depending…
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By Claire Wilcox, Adjunct Faculty in Psychiatry, University of New Mexico
A consensus is emerging among scientists that certain foods are addictive for some people. But questions remain about which foods, which people and why.
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By Libby Richards, Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
Despite some confusion around changing vaccine guidelines, the CDC still recommends an annual flu shot for everyone 6 months and older.
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By Prakash Nagarkatti, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
Mitzi Nagarkatti, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
Researchers are gaining insights into how external factors like air pollutants, diet and medications, and even microbes in the gut interact with regulatory T cells, for better or for worse.
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By Jessica D. Ayers, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, Boise State University
Athena Aktipis, Associate Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
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By Jie Huang, Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Bohong Zhang, Assistant Research Professor of Electrical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Chen Zhu, Associate Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rex Gerald, Lead Research Consultant in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a new class of crystalline materials. It recognized a revolution quietly reshaping how scientists capture, store and sense molecules. These MOFs could allow for sensor technologies that make workplaces, the environment and human bodies safer.
What are MOFs, and why do they matter?
MOFs…
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By Gregory P. Magarian, Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political disagreement from debate to aggression.
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