By Jeremy David Engels, Liberal Arts Endowed Professor of Communication, Penn State
Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh shared a vision of ‘beloved community’ that shows how democracy begins not with power, but with how we live together.
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By Paul Bierman, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont
History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh climate and dynamic ice sheet.
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By Layla Bouzoubaa, Doctoral Student in Information Science, Drexel University
When you think of tools for studying substance use and addiction, a social media site like Reddit, TikTok or YouTube probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the stories shared on social media platforms are offering unprecedented insights into the world of substance use.
In the past, researchers studying peoples’ experiences with addiction relied mostly on clinical observations and self-reported surveys. But only about 5% of people diagnosed with a substance use disorder seek…
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By Pierre-Charles Pradier, Maître de conférences en Sciences économiques, LabEx RéFi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The disappearance of 500-euro notes and the creation of bitcoin have led money laundering networks to pay drug traffickers in cryptocurrencies and ship cash to Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
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By Geoffrey Propheter, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver
The Denver Broncos announced in early September 2025 their plan to build a privately financed football stadium. The proposal received a lot of attention and praise.
Across the five major sports leagues in the U.S. – the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB and MLS – only 20%…
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By Hana Green, Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust Studies, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies, College of Charleston
Some women adopted non-Jewish identities to support the resistance. For most, though, it was simply a strategy for survival – one with constant risk of exposure and execution.
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By Kelsey Roberts, Post-Doctoral Scholar in Marine Ecology, Cornell University; UMass Dartmouth
Daniele Visioni, Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Morgan Raven, Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tyler Rohr, ARC DECRA Fellow/Senior Lecturer, IMAS, University of Tasmania
Some methods being tried to counter climate change shift the ocean’s biology or chemistry. Others would deflect solar radiation. All have consequences for marine life.
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By Amnesty International
By Joe Freeman, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher, and Aung Naing Soe, Burmese journalist and filmmaker One morning last November, Bee Kyal’s phone pinged with a message about a fighter jet taking off from a military base in central Myanmar’s rural Sagaing region. Reacting quickly, the resistance fighter picked up a walkie-talkie and shouted into it, […] The post In Myanmar, civilians bear consequences of Starlink cuts appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Qiqi Cheng, Quantitative Research Associate, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester
Neil Humphrey, Professor of Psychology of Education, University of Manchester
The research found little evidence that time spent on social media or frequent gaming causes mental health problems in early-to-mid adolescence.
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By Human Rights Watch
Col. Claude Pivi, Guinea’s former minister for presidential security and one of the men convicted in a landmark trial for rapes and killings committed in Guinea in 2009, reportedly died in custody in a hospital on January 6, 2026, of natural causes. Click to expand Image Col. Claude Pivi, Guinea’s former minister for presidential security, at Martyrs Square of Conakry on October 2, 2009. © 2009 Seyllou/AFP via Getty Images On July 31, 2024, a Guinean court issued a verdict for the September 28, 2009 massacre, in which security forces attacked peaceful demonstrators…
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