By Shaina Sadai, Associate in Earth Science, Five College Consortium
Ambarish Karmalkar, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island
Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies around the world.
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By Alexey A. Petrov, Professor of physics and astronomy, University of South Carolina
Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may be examples of dark stars. The concept of dark stars has existed for some time and could alter scientists’ understanding of how ordinary stars form. However, their name is somewhat misleading.
“Dark stars” is one of those unfortunate names that, on the surface, does not accurately describe the objects it represents. Dark stars are not exactly stars, and they are certainly not dark.
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By Jacob S. Suissa, Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.
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By Wei Zhai, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Planning, University of Texas at Arlington
Urban digital twins pull together tremendous amounts of data to realistically model cities, but they’ve been missing a critical ingredient: people.
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By Deborah Lee, Professor and Director of Research Impact and AI Strategy, Mississippi State University
ChatGPT has dramatically altered how people retrieve information, muscling aside Google search as the first stop on the hunt for answers.
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By Jesper Bjarnesen, Senior researcher, The Nordic Africa Institute
Ivorians went to the polls on 25 October 2025 to choose between incumbent president Alassane Ouattara – seeking a fourth five-year term – and one of four candidates who didn’t have the backing of the largest opposition parties.
There was not much of a choice, as the three main opposition candidates were banned from standing. Ouattara claimed another first-round landslide…
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By Gift Khumalo, Lecturer, Durban University of Technology
Bokang Lipholo, Senior HTS Coordinator
Nosipho Faith Makhakhe, Senior Lecturer, Durban University of Technology
School violence is a global public health phenomenon. This is when learners and teachers are the victims of physical and psychological abuse, cyber threats and bullying, fights, gangsterism, and the use of weapons at school.
The consequences of school violence are dire. There are implications for learners, teachers, the school and the community. Violence undermines the…
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By Craig McGregor, Associate Professor in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and Director of the Solar Thermal Energy Research Group, Stellenbosch University
Varun Pratap Singh, Associate Professor (Extraordinary) in the Solar Thermal Energy Research Group, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University
India links new rural power lines to solar projects, providing cleaner energy for farms, while South Africa has ways for communities to benefit from green energy profits.
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By Kenny Monrose, Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
“I have a dislike for politicians as they’re not truthful people. It’s the nature of politics that you cannot be straight, you have to lie and cheat,” said the reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who died on November 24 at the age of 81.
Cliff was born James Chambers on July 30 July 1944 in Somerton, Saint James Parish, Jamaica. Long before luminaries such as Bob Andy, the Wailers, Lee Perry and others had made an indelible mark on Jamaican popular music, Jimmy had taken the genre to “foreign” – not just to the US or the UK but around the world. Suffice to say Jimmy Cliff was
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By Jamaica Cass, Director, Queen's-Weeneebayko Health Education Partnership, Queen's University, Ontario
Despite a decade of commitments, audits and Calls to Action, the federal government has failed to deliver meaningful and measurable improvements in First Nations health services.
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