By Michele Acuto, Professor of Urban Resilience and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol
New PM Andy Burnham cut business rates for pubs and clubs, which was a good start. However, much needs to be done to help businesses operating at night.
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By Sayed Elhoushy, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Queen Mary University of London
Jasmine Mohsen, Assistant Professor and a module leader in Marketing and Business, S P Jain School of Global Management
A hosepipe ban succeeds where abstract messaging often fails, because it turns a distant risk into a visible, felt experience.
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By Aashis Luitel, Associate Teaching Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of the Cumberlands
AI agents cross company boundaries, but proof of their authority often does not. When they overstep, no single record shows what the user allowed.
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By Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
NASA is planning to send three small rovers to the Moon with a single instruction: Work out among yourselves how to explore a patch of ground.
The Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration mission, or CADRE, will land on the side of the Moon facing Earth as part of NASA’s IM-3 launch, planned for late 2026. These rovers will spend roughly two weeks mapping the terrain…
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Several colleges and universities instruct students on how to navigate email communication on their campus, but more could consider the practice.
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By Rebecca Napolitano, Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Penn State
Giorgia Giardina, Associate Professor of Geo-Monitoring and Data Analytics, Delft University of Technology
Tiago Miguel Ferreira, Assistant Professor in Structural Mechanics and Structures, Universidade de Lisboa
The damage is sometimes only centimeters deep. Three engineers explain the colors of burned masonry and other signs preservationists look for amid another destructive fire year.
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By Phoebe S. Moore, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School
Megan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Yael Dvir, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School
It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, “I’m so stressed out, I can’t sleep.”
A reply arrives swiftly: “I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. Want to tell me a bit about what is stressing you?” The conversation unfolds, and 20 minutes later she is calmer and able to sleep. The supportive voice that calmed her? A large language model, or LLM, chatbot.
While this is a hypothetical scenario, it represents…
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By Kent Jones, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Babson College
The effects of the Trump administration’s 2025 tariffs are still being passed on to consumers, while new levies will add to the overall tariff rate.
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By Sarah K Lischer, Associate Professor Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
A community – bystanders, law enforcement, colleagues and family – is likely to deny an atrocity when acknowledging it requires action.
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By Meghan Moe Beitiks, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Concordia University
Montréal-area performances have seen artists explore our human connections to light and ecological forces, and reflect on grief related to climate change.
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