Theory of Everything debunks myth of Hawking as disembodied mind
By Declan Fahy, American University
Early in The Theory of Everything, the student Stephen Hawking strides across the grounds at Cambridge University in the 1960s,...
How Arkansas is expanding Medicaid without actually expanding Medicaid
By Colleen M. Grogan, University of Chicago
Upon the signing of the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, the public was promised that all...
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;...
