Is your religion ready to meet ET?
By David A. Weintraub, Vanderbilt University
How will humankind react after astronomers hand over rock-solid scientific evidence for the existence of life beyond the Earth?...
How do we control an outbreak like Ebola if we haven’t been there before?
By Michael Tildesley, University of Nottingham; Katriona Shea, Pennsylvania State University, and Matthew Ferrari, Pennsylvania State University
As Arthur Conan Doyle said, “it is easy...
Minority voters tell their stories
By Paru R Shah, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; David Cook Martín, Grinnell College, and Marcus Anthony Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles
Editor’s note: voter turnout...
The case for closing down women’s prisons
By Patricia O'Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago
It sounds like a radical idea. Stop incarcerating women, and close down women’s prisons. But in the...
Brownbagging it not always the healthy choice for kids’ school lunches
By Alisha Farris, Virginia Tech
Ravenous students, busy parents, nutrition professionals and school officials all have their own ideas about what belongs on the school...
California’s severe drought shows why we need to raise the price of water
By Randy Simmons, Utah State University
Last January, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a State of Emergency following projections of severe drought. State bureaucrats and...
Feeling anxious makes it harder to stop feeling anxious
By Adam Heenan, Queen's University, Ontario
Anxious people tend to perceive their world in a more threatening way. That is, the more anxious a person...
Children born just after the Berlin Wall fell were lower achievers – here’s why
By Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway and Olivier Marie, Maastricht University
Germany and the rest of Europe are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the collapse of...
