By Amelia B. Finaret, Associate Professor of Business and Economics and Nutrition, Allegheny College
Nearly 14,000 people in one Pittsburgh-area county could lose a benefit that’s long been considered one of the country’s most effective anti-poverty tools.
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By Hatim Sharif, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S.
These findings stopped me in my tracks because those two jobs rely on the same thing as my own work: maps.
I have spent more than two decades staring at maps. Not paper maps on a wall, but digital ones with multiple layers: flood boundaries draped over census blocks, car crash…
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By Ashley Bosa, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Resilience Institute at Boise State University, Boise State University
Evacuations in the face of a wildfire, hurricane or other disaster are stressful and can take more time than you might expect. Here’s why practice helps and what to think about.
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By Evan Clarkson, Assistant Professor, experimental psychology, Utah Valley University
A psychologist explains why dark political humor doesn’t prove young people are nihilistic, but rather reveals what happens when moral seriousness no longer feels credible.
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By Bailey Sincox, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Some critics have bemoaned the flattening of a complex character. But Nolan’s film echoes a literary tradition of reimagining Circe as a survivor, a truth-teller and a figure of female empowerment.
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By Thom Reilly, Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University
Russia is not just moving Ukrainian children. It is taking away their identities. Will the $25 million being spent by the US to locate and rehabilitate forcibly transferred children be enough?
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By Leah Hamilton, Professor in the Faculty of Business & Communication Studies, Mount Royal University
Corinne L. Mason, Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Mount Royal University
Public support for trans and gender-diverse people is declining, and that decline is being driven by political and media discourse.
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By Neil D’Cruze, Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
Angie Elwin, Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
Herbert Ntuli, Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
When elephants leave Kruger National Park, they are sometimes killed and their meat is shared with nearby communities. This policy may have unintended consequences.
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By Yaël Nazé, Astronome FNRS à l'Institut d'astrophysique et de géophysique, Université de Liège
What’s the most impressive natural phenomenon known to humankind? Probably a solar eclipse! Here’s a brief overview ahead of this summer’s big celestial event.
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By Maria Diaz-Macias, PhD Researcher at the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work (University of Zurich), University of Zurich
Francisco Diaz Bretones, Professor of Occupational Psychology. Dean of the Faculty of Labour Relations and Human Resources, Universidad de Granada
The long-awaited, well-deserved holiday season has finally arrived for millions of employees. However, after months of non-stop work, truly unplugging can become incredibly difficult. Modern workplaces demand a state of constant mental availability. Driven by rapid technological advances, we find ourselves endlessly tied to work through group chats, social media, and e-mails, making total disconnection a challenge. This technological complexity is also associated with greater emotional exhaustion at work and in our…
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