By Amy Pope, Principal Lecturer of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances will look different to my students who have studied physics through sports. These feats will be something the students have already measured, modeled or felt. As a physicist, I help my students see the games as a place where classroom lessons come to life.
I spend a lot of time thinking about how abstract ideas such as kinematics, forces, energy, momentum…
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By Sothy Eng, Associate Professor of of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Hawaii
Family reunification is often framed as a cost, but evidence shows it functions as social infrastructure that supports work, well-being and economic stability.
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By John Babalola, Associate lecturer, University of Lincoln
Joshua Skoczylis, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Lincoln
West Africa has pursued one of the world’s most ambitious border liberalisation schemes in the past four decades. The Ecowas Free Movement Protocol, signed in 1979, enables citizens of 16 member states to cross international borders with minimal documentation. The intention was to promote economic integration and prosperity across the region.
For instance, Nigeria’s open borders…
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By Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, Professor, North-West University
'Makhotso Lekhooa, Associate professor, North-West University
Mompati Vincent Chakale, Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga
Men’s sexual and reproductive health may be awkward to talk about, but there’s a need to do so. For example, about one-sixth of all couples worldwide have difficulty conceiving children, and in half the cases the man’s fertility is part of the problem. In South Africa, nearly 65% of men attending primary healthcare…
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By Daniel Tjarks, Resarch Associate in Human Geography, Saarland University
The Lobito Corridor is a massive infrastructure axis linking Angola’s shore on the west of Africa to the mineral-rich interior. Built in the first three decades of the 1900s to export cheap commodities to colonial Portugal, it later fell into disrepair. Its main railway was rebuilt during Angola’s post-war reconstruction. More recently it…
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By Gary W. Yohe, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
A federal judge dealt one blow to the effort when he found the administration had violated the law in handpicking a panel to question climate science.
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By Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Two researchers found that Danish government benefits do not fully offset moms’ lost earnings. But they do help offset lost income for working women with kids.
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By Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics; Director, Lau China Institute, King's College London
As the UK tries to make sense of a world in which the US is not a wholly reliable ally, a realistic stance on China is essential.
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By Karin Modig, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
How much do your genes determine how long you’ll live? It’s a question that fascinates us, and one that’s been debated for decades. For years, the answer seemed settled – genes account for about 20–25% of the variation in human lifespan, with the rest down to lifestyle and environment.
But a new study published in Science has challenged this view, suggesting the genetic contribution might be considerably higher.
The reason, according to the researchers, is that previous estimates failed to…
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By Robin Bailey, Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology, University of Cambridge
Donald Trump can change the temperature of a room with a sentence. One minute he is certain, the next he is backtracking. One day he is threatening, the next he is hinting at a deal. Even before anything concrete happens, people brace for his next turn.
That reaction is not just political. It is what unpredictability does to any system that requires stability. To act at all, you need some working sense of what is happening and what is likely to happen next.
One influential framework in brain…
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