Being drug free shouldn't be a requirement to receive housing
By Miriam Boeri, Bentley University
Over the past decade, drug use in the US has risen dramatically, with heroin use reaching epidemic proportions.
The country’s...
Eyetracking technology knows your subconscious pizza desires … or not
By John M. Henderson, University of South Carolina
If you prefer to order your pizza without going through all the trouble of actually speaking, Pizza...
What your hand grip says about your strength through life
By Richard Dodds, University of Southampton
More of us are living longer, but a crucial qualifying factor needs to be considered: namely whether this added...
In the ocean, the most harmful plastic is too small to see
By Magnus Johnson, University of Hull and Melanie Coull, University of Hull
There are at least 268,000 tonnes of plastic floating around in the oceans,...
Awake, online and sleep-deprived – the rise of the teenage ‘vamper’
By Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University
About three years ago, a teenage girl was talking with me and other students about using her cell phone...
Senate CIA torture report release: expert reaction
By Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London; Claudia Hillebrand, Aberystwyth University; Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University; James J. Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;...
Americans are deeply divided about torture
By Paul Gronke, Reed College; Darius Rejali, Reed College, and Peter Miller, University of Pennsylvania
The Senate report on torture found that the “enhanced techniques”...
‘Big Brother’ surveillance in elite sport is pushing a culture with a machine mentality
By Andrew Manley, University of Bath and Shaun Williams, University of Bath
With a “win-at-all-costs” culture firmly embedded in elite sport, coaches are increasingly turning...
