Matthew Jordan, Penn State
News of Netflix’s bid to buy Warner Bros. last week sent shock waves through the media ecosystem.
The pending US$83 billion deal is being described as an...
Kelly Droege, University of Wisconsin-Stout and Laura Reisinger, University of Wisconsin-Stout
For decades, a four-year college degree was widely seen as the standard path to getting most midlevel jobs in the United States. It...
Anne Pisor, Penn State
Imagine going from having a book club with your co-workers to seeing them only on a Signal chat where every member has to be vetted – and the main conversation...
Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly...
Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, University of Louisville; Hanqing "Chevy" Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Jim Chrisman, Mississippi State University
When you hear the phrase “family business,” you might think of the backstabbing Roys...
Wei Zhai, University of Texas at Arlington
When city leaders talk about making a town “smart,” they’re usually talking about urban digital twins. These are essentially high-tech, 3D computer models of cities. They are...
Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota; Preeti Nair, University of North Dakota; Sai Susmitha Guddanti, University of North Dakota, and Sreejith Vidhyadharan Nair, University of North Dakota
Every year, companies and space agencies...
Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
When Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in October 2025, it left a trail of destruction. The Category 5 storm damaged buildings in Jamaica,...
