By Philip Broadbent, Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
The UK’s healthy life expectancy crisis hits women hardest, but the government’s renewed women’s health strategy doesn’t come close to matching the scale of the problem.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A Coalition government would boost Australia’s minimum fuel reserve to 60 days, and deliver at least one billion litres of new storage with a $800 million Fuel Security Facility.
The opposition, making the announcement on Monday, said the new storage capacity would have “a focus on diesel”.
Diesel, especially vital in regional areas and for the trucking industry and farmers, has been under particular pressure during the present fuel crisis.
The opposition meanwhile called on the government to increase baseline stockholding fuel levels from January 1 next…
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By Ahmed Elgammal, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
OpenAI officially discontinued its video generation tool, Sora, on April 26, 2026.
I’m a computer scientist who’s been developing AI tools and studying their evolution and adoption for the past decade, and I wasn’t surprised by OpenAI’s decision to shut down Sora.
To me, the challenges Sora faced reflect deeper limitations of AI’s…
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By Sara Konrath, Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
Femida Handy, Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania
Since voters live longer, casting a ballot may be seen as another healthy habit, like going for a run or eating lots of vegetables.
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By David Mislin, Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
While religious minorities have often faced hostility, many Americans have long believed in religious liberty and a more inclusive society, writes a historian of American religion.
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By Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
American courts have legislated the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether it’s constitutional depends on the aims of teachers’ lessons.
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By Irus Braverman, Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Geography, and, Research Professor at the Department of Research and Sustainability, University at Buffalo
Donkeys tend to symbolize humility and redemption; in Jewish tradition, the Messiah will arrive on a white donkey.
But in today’s “land of the Bible,” donkeys have become victims of the war in Gaza and, increasingly, targets of the growing settler violence in the West Bank.
Take what happened in December 2025 near Jaba, north of Ramallah. While a Palestinian child watched, seven Jewish settlers from Gur Aryeh, a small illegal outpost, reportedly led…
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By Scott Friend, Professor and Schaefer Endowed Chair in Marketing, University of Dayton
Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, Professor of Marketing, EDHEC Business School
Business culture has long embraced grit as a winning value. But modern examples show that companies will do better if they acknowledge mistakes quickly and pivot.
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By Yunyao Li, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington
You can feel wet when you can see water and when you can’t see water. You can also feel dry even when there’s a lot of water vapor in the air – like during a fire.
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By Olivia Harper Wilkins, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dickinson College
Discoveries of molecules in space that suggest extraterrestrial life are exciting, but they need to be taken with a grain of salt – an astrochemist explains why.
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