By Shiri Melumad, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
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By Michal Raucher, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University
A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for women’s religious learning within Orthodox Judaism.
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By Gerard Toal, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
Adis Maksić, Associate Professor of International Relations and European Studies, International Burch University
More than 100,000 people were killed in the Bosnian war. But the peace that ended it in 1995 sowed the seeds for ethnonationalism.
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By Morgan Underwood, Ph.D. Candidate in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University
Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA telescope may help search for potentially habitable worlds.
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By Shannon Gibson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Wealthy countries promised billions of dollars to help developing nations adapt to climate change, but the result rests on a shaky foundation of fuzzy accounting.
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By Rosemary Sheehan, Professor of Social Work, Monash University
The Victorian government has announced it will send social workers to 20 of the state’s schools to try to reduce violent youth crime.
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By Matilda Brindle, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford
If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn’t be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be. However, my team’s new research suggests that these squat beefcakes might have been right up your ancestors’ street.
In our new paper, colleagues and I investigated kissing in monkeys and apes, including modern humans and Neanderthals, to reconstruct its evolutionary history for the first time.
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By Janine Dixon, Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
A horror stretch starting in 2020 saw an entire decade of real wage growth reversed in just three years. It’s a long way back up yet.
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By Human Rights Watch
(Beirut,) – Bahraini authorities have detained Ebrahim Sharif, a prominent political activist, for peaceful comments he made in Beirut, Human Rights Watch and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said today.Yusuf al-Jamri, a blogger, said that the authorities detained Sharif, former secretary general of Bahrain’s National Democratic Action Society, due to comments he made in Beirut to LuaLuaTV calling for Arabs and Arab governments to support Palestinians. The Bahrain authorities should immediately release him and end their long-standing practice of detaining people for…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People march in front of the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara during a demonstration organized by the "I Need Peace Women's Initiative”, July 8, 2025. © 2025 Bilal Seckin/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Conflicts and crises cause harm based on gender. Because women and girls across the globe experience legal, economic, and cultural discrimination, they also experience the impacts of conflict in distinct and often more profound ways than others.With data underscoring escalating conflict globally, reaching a level not seen since the post-World…
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