By Rebecca Payne, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Bangor University
Zengbo Wang, Professor in Imaging and Laser Micromachining, Bangor University
Your phone was built to make you look good, not to support diagnosis, yet its images are now influencing your medical care.
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By Ed Atkins, Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
Sean Fox, Professor of Geography & Global Development, University of Bristol
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: even as Britain makes the welcome transition to net zero, some communities will lose jobs and face economic disruption. And the places most exposed are overwhelmingly the same places that were hit hardest by the wave of industrial job losses in the 1980s.
That’s the striking pattern revealed by our new research mapping vulnerability across all 365 local authorities in Great Britain. Many places already struggling after decades of industrial decline are poised…
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By Anna Mayo, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon University
As nurses in Pittsburgh and nationwide spotlight staffing shortages, better pay and workplace safety, labor negotiations have intensified. Here’s what’s at stake.
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By Antonios Mamalakis, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Environmental Science, University of Virginia
Behind the long-term climate projections that affect our lives sits one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the modern era.
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By Clare E. Boerigter, Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service
For decades, wilderness lands have been left largely unaltered by human activity. But those places are still changing, and keeping them wild and special may require action, not inaction.
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Throughout the 20th century, college and university presidents spoke out on everything, from wars to civil rights struggles, with a sense of moral authority attempting to guide the course.
Their language was typically direct and free of jargon.
“Democracy is the best form of government.…
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By Rashid Faisal, Lecturer, College of Education, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Anita Moncrease, Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University
In the early 20th century, Detroit’s Black medical professionals created a network of health care institutions in response to racial discrimination and exclusion.
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By Adam Meyer, PhD Candidate in Ecosystem Ecology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Kristy Ferraro, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and number crunchers. They are also storytellers, placing data within a broader scientific and societal context. How they tell these stories matters.
In our work as ecologists, we find that the “hero-villain” narrative trope is a popular tool in ecology and conservation writing. For example, wild pigs – a hybrid of human-introduced wild…
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By Marlo Rossi, PhD Candidate in Public Affairs & Community Development, Rutgers University–Camden, Rutgers University
Polls indicate majority support for abortion rights in most states, but laws differ greatly between places that uphold such rights and those that ban the procedure.
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By Bert Johnson, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
A majority of Americans say they are “frustrated” or “angry” – or both – with Republicans and Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center. But that rarely translates into support for independent or third-party candidates.
One exception has been in the Northeast. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are the Senate’s only independents. King, along with Lowell Weicker of Connecticut and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, represent three…
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