By Philip Murphy, Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Help! might sit uncomfortably for a lot of viewers today but it should not be allowed to fall into obscurity
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By Gerlinde Bigga, Scientific Coordinator of the Leibniz Science Campus "Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen", University of Tübingen
The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists’ ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones and analysed.
These advances have revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred – something that wasn’t previously thought to have happened. It has allowed researchers to disentangle the various migrations that shaped modern…
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By Elinor Harrison, Lecturer, Performing Arts Department, Faculty Affiliate, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
On the first Sunday after being named leader of the Catholic Church in May 2025, Pope Leo XIV stood on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and addressed the tens of thousands of people gathered. Invoking tradition, he led the people in noontime prayer. But rather than reciting it, as his predecessors generally did, he sang.
In chanting the traditional Regina Caeli, the pope inspired what…
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By Kaitlyn M. Sims, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies
A record number of Colorado children died in 2024 as a result of domestic violence, despite a statewide reduction in overall homicide.
Of the eight children who died, five were involved in active custody disputes. These deaths took place when families faced high stress but also when legal systems should have been well placed to intervene. Multiple children were killed alongside a sibling…
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By Ismar Volić, Professor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, Wellesley College
Andy Schultz, Professor of Mathematics, Wellesley College
David McCune, Professor of Mathematics, William Jewel College
Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.
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By Stephen Mattingly, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest train in Europe goes almost 200 mph (320 kph). Yet high-speed…
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By José Lemos, Professor of Oral Biology, University of Florida
Jacqueline Abranches, Associate Professor of Oral Biology, University of Florida
Bacteria living in your mouth get to work as soon as you take your first bite or sip of something sweet. Consuming your sugar more strategically can help keep cavities at bay.
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By Ramesh Agarwal, Professor of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
To reduce emissions put into the atmosphere, Google is using carbon capture and sequestration. But not all CCS projects are the same.
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By Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Louisville
Hanqing "Chevy" Fang, Associate Professor of Business and Information Technology, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Jim Chrisman, Professor of Management, Mississippi State University
My team analyzed decades of research on family businesses to find out their secret sauce. Three key differences help them keep an edge over competitors.
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By Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Professor of Labor Studies, Rutgers University
House lawmakers released damning correspondence between economist Larry Summers and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Nov. 12, 2025. The exchanges, which were among more than 20,000 newly released public documents, documented how Summers – a former U.S. Treasury…
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