Trump’s battle with elite universities overlooks where most students actually go to college
Amy Li, Florida International University
Headlines often mention the ongoing power struggle between President Donald Trump’s administration and private...
Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Reports that prominent American national security officials used a freely available encrypted...
New chancellor, old constraints: Germany’s Friedrich Merz will have a hard time freeing the...
Mark I. Vail, Wake Forest University
Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025,...
Why we fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts
Angshuman K. Kashyap, University of Maryland
In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or...
Touch can comfort and heal, but also harm − a psychologist explains why gestures...
Brian N. Chin, Trinity College
A hug from a friend. A squeeze of the hand. A steady arm around...
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
Algebra is more than alphabet soup – it’s the language of algorithms and relationships
Algebra often involves manipulating numbers or other objects using operations like addition and multiplication. Flavio Coelho/Moment via Getty Images
Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound like something only scientists use in...
