By Rebecca Napolitano, Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Penn State
Giorgia Giardina, Associate Professor of Geo-Monitoring and Data Analytics, Delft University of Technology
Tiago Miguel Ferreira, Assistant Professor in Structural Mechanics and Structures, Universidade de Lisboa
The damage is sometimes only centimeters deep. Three engineers explain the colors of burned masonry and other signs preservationists look for amid another destructive fire year.
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By Phoebe S. Moore, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School
Megan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Yael Dvir, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School
It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, “I’m so stressed out, I can’t sleep.”
A reply arrives swiftly: “I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. Want to tell me a bit about what is stressing you?” The conversation unfolds, and 20 minutes later she is calmer and able to sleep. The supportive voice that calmed her? A large language model, or LLM, chatbot.
While this is a hypothetical scenario, it represents…
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By Kent Jones, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Babson College
The effects of the Trump administration’s 2025 tariffs are still being passed on to consumers, while new levies will add to the overall tariff rate.
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By Sarah K Lischer, Associate Professor Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
A community – bystanders, law enforcement, colleagues and family – is likely to deny an atrocity when acknowledging it requires action.
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By Meghan Moe Beitiks, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Concordia University
Montréal-area performances have seen artists explore our human connections to light and ecological forces, and reflect on grief related to climate change.
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By Andras Molnar, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
George Loewenstein, Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.
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By Chris Boyer, Professor and Department Head, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
Aaron Smith, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
Eunchun Park, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas
The federal government is injecting millions of dollars into efforts to combat feral hogs – and it’s considering spending even more in the coming years. The problem has grown for decades, but our research has found that a recently revived federal effort offers the potential for bringing the hogs under control.
Feral swine roam in 35 states,…
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By Janette Bulkan, Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management; Director of the Oil and Gas Governance Network, University of British Columbia
The MV Barima — an 87-year-old ferry owned and operated by the state of Guyana — recently sank off the country’s coast on its way from the country’s capital of Georgetown to Port Kaituma, a journey of about 18 to 24 hours.
Port Kaituma is a gateway to what’s known as the North West District that borders Venezuela, where outsider…
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By Lauren Warner-Treloar, AHRC-Techne PhD Candidate, Art and Design History, Kingston University
Since 2013, Vladimir Putin has argued that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people”. It’s an attempt to erase Ukrainian identity, part of an assault that has been ongoing for centuries.
Since the full-scale invasion in 2022, Russia has regularly…
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By Kevin J. Munro, Ewing Professor of Audiology, University of Manchester
Adele Goman, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leeds
Gabrielle Saunders, Professor of Audiology, University of Manchester
A new survey of UK adults finds most of us track our health at home, but not everyone is equally likely to benefit.
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