By Itay Ravid, Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University
Nearly one-third of U.S. children reported missing are Black, even though Black people constitute roughly 14% of the U.S. population.
To address one dimension of this problem, Pennsylvania and a few other states, including Alabama and Massachusetts, have in recent years…
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By Coalter G Lathrop, Senior Lecturing Fellow in International Law, Duke University
There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
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By Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joe Frank Bozeman III, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rather than generating climate-warming emissions and wasting nutrients and energy, food waste can become a resource if processed in sewage treatment plants.
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By Darrell Evans, Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, Purdue University
Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it’s an important line of research.
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By Amaarah DeCuir, Senior Professorial Lecturer in Education, American University
The war on terror is among the Middle East conflicts that sparked a rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discriminatory incidents in the US.
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By Holly Willis, Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
AI tools can now generate movie scenes, resurrect lost footage and replace entry-level jobs – forcing Hollywood to rethink creativity, labor and authorship.
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By Katherine Moses, Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Mississippi
I had been with my boyfriend, Tyler, for almost 10 years when we finally agreed that we should get engaged and married. Up until then, our respective jobs – mine as an academic, his as a fisherman – had forced us to endure long stretches apart.
But I had been offered a permanent academic job teaching philosophy in Florida. Tyler said he was willing to start a business there. It seemed like the beginning of a new, stable chapter of our lives.
We moved before he officially proposed, however. Then he went to Canada for seasonal work.
In our new house in Florida,…
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By Jose Abisambra, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Florida
People typically die from progressive supranuclear palsy within 7 to 10 years. There is currently no specialized treatment or effective screening for this neurodegenerative disease.
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By Eef Hogervorst, Professor of Biological Psychology, Loughborough University
A study tracking women for more than two decades adds to growing evidence that when menopause hormone therapy is started may influence dementia risk later in life.
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By Sue Farran, Professor of Comparative and Plural law, Newcastle University
Colin Murray, Professor of Law and Democracy, Newcastle University
More than a year ago, the UK agreed to grant Mauritius sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, which Britain has governed as the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1965. But the treaty to transfer sovereignty has hit choppy waters. The deal has stalled in the UK parliament and Mauritius has now threatened legal action against the UK over the delay.
For years, successive UK governments played…
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