By Marcos Fernandez Tous, Assistant Professor of Space Studies, University of North Dakota
Artemis II has been plagued by similar issues to those faced by its predecessor, leading NASA to shake up its plan to return humans to the Moon.
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By Eric Horstick, Associate Professor of Biology, West Virginia University
Being left- or right-handed – and the paw, eye, fin and wing equivalents – is a product of genes, development and the environment.
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By Leila Gautham, Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds
Nancy Folbre, Professor Emerita of Economics, UMass Amherst
When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.
But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning and lawn mowing – is produced by unpaid labor that never appears in these conventional measures.…
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By Linda Argote, Thomas Lord Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory; Director, Center of Organizational Learning, Innovation and Knowledge, Carnegie Mellon University
Jeremy M. Kahn, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh
A new study from a Pittsburgh hospital finds that trauma patients recover faster when emergency medical teams have shared experience working together.
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By Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
Detroit’s homelessness response system could lose millions of dollars in federal funding for permanent supportive housing as the city’s homelessness rates increase.
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By Sarah Burns, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology; Institute for Humane Studies
At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers’ held the power to declare war – not the president.
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By Tom Benn, Associate Professor in Crime Writing (Creative Writing), University of East Anglia
AI will continue to affect writers existentially and economically – but does the human touch still matter to us more?
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By Mark Ireland, Senior Lecturer in Energy Geoscience, Newcastle University
The Middle East plays a central role in global energy and therefore global markets. As tensions escalate and the strait of Hormuz, a key trade route, faces disruption, headlines assessing the wider impact of the Iranian conflict often centre on oil and gas supply.
There’s one underlying reason that so many oil tankers and liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes pass through the strait, and that Middle East conflict shakes global energy markets. That reason is a geological one: an extraordinary concentration…
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By Atieh Razavi Yekta, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia
Christopher McLeod, Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Around 60 per cent of Canadian employees can expect their job to be transformed through artificial intelligence (AI). For many, AI will complement, rather than replace, their work. For some, it could prevent illness, injury or death.
This might look like a nurse wearing a T-shirt equipped with sensors to track her lower back posture during a hospital shift. It might be an algorithm monitoring noise levels in a steel factory, to prevent worker hearing loss. Or it could be a robotic…
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By Maha Khawaja, PhD Student, Health and Society, McMaster University
Women’s success, resilience and well-being are not purely individual achievements. They are deeply supported by female friendships and collective social bonds.
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