By Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
American courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their purpose.
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By D. Brian Blank, Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
Dallin Alldredge, Assistant Professor of Finance, Florida International University
Lee Biggerstaff, Assistant Professor of Finance, Miami University
Corporate layoffs cause confusion about a business’s future, but there’s a way for investors and employees alike to see if downsizing could lead to profitability.
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By Philip Broadbent, Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
New data shows obesity rising fastest among the young and the poor, while it’s mainly the better off who are seeing the benefit of weight-loss drugs.
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By Tom Cutterham, Associate Professor of United States History, University of Birmingham
The American revolution was not a straightforward contest between colonists and mother country, despite what the Declaration of Independence said about dissolving the bonds between one people and another. There were, of course, loyalists in America who refused to join the rebel cause. And in Britain, there were many who took the side of the revolution.
Just like in the colonies themselves, people’s choice of allegiance was sometimes a matter of self-interest. Merchants and manufacturers, whose…
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By Dominic O'Key, Teaching Associate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy marks the passing of her late mother by fathoming her on the page for the first time. “I wrote versions of her in my books”, Roy explains, “but I never wrote her.”
Doing so is difficult, even painful for Roy because of who her mother was and how she mothered. To her students, Mrs Roy was a committed headmistress who left a legacy of learning. To her country, Mary Roy was a tireless advocate for Syrian Christians, whose landmark legal case in India’s supreme…
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By Kirsty Lindsay, Assistant Professor in Physiotherapy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
In 2024, I flew on a microgravity, or zero G, parabolic flight with the European Space Agency (ESA). The aeroplane flew big arcs up and down in the sky. At the top of the arc I experienced 22 seconds of weightlessness, just like an astronaut.
On the flight were some of ESA’s newest astronauts, training on the Microgravity…
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By Harold Lovell, Senior Lecturer, Glaciology, University of Portsmouth
Mark Hardiman, Senior Lecturer, Quaternary Science, University of Portsmouth
Pelle Tejsner, External Lecturer, Institut for Kultur, Sprog & Historie, University of Greenland
After several quieter years, wildfires have returned to western Greenland.
Two recent fires have brought renewed attention to a landscape more typically associated with glaciers and melting ice sheets than flames. But when we visited the region in 2023 to investigate a series of unusual large wildfires that burned a few years earlier, local residents told us they would not…
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By Isabelle Kaiko, Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuropsychology, Leiden University
Ineke van der Ham, Professor of Technological Innovations in Neuropsychology, Leiden University
Judith Schomaker, Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology, Leiden University
Think about the last time you used your phone to find your way somewhere. What would happen if, halfway through the journey, the route instructions vanished or your phone battery died? You might find yourself starting to panic. But once you notice something familiar or are able to ask someone for directions, this will usually subside, and you can adapt.
For some people, though, this feeling of getting lost doesn’t go away. It can even occur when navigating their own home.
Some estimates suggest…
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By Francisco De Abreu Duarte, Full-time Assistant Professor, European University Institute
We are living in a world backed by technology that seems to have a spiritual project of its own. Are the fears of the Pope’s AI-critical encyclical founded?
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By Oscar Morton, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
Chris Bousfield, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge
The minerals needed for clean energy are driving widespread forest loss across Africa, much of it far beyond the mine itself and largely preventable.
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