Tag: life & news
Trump’s lifting of Syria sanctions is a win for Turkey, too...
Hyeran Jo, Texas A&M University and Ece Göztepe Çelebi, Bilkent University
President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia...
Trump’s battle with elite universities overlooks where most students actually go...
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...
H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy
Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School
Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was...
New chancellor, old constraints: Germany’s Friedrich Merz will have a hard...
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...
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...
Brian N. Chin, Trinity College
A hug from a friend. A squeeze of the hand. A steady arm around...
Algebra is more than alphabet soup – it’s the language of...
Algebra often involves manipulating numbers or other objects using operations like addition and multiplication. Flavio Coelho/Moment via Getty Images
EXPLORING NATURE
Why it’s OK to say ‘namaste’ in yoga class
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
“Namaste,” a common greeting in India and South Asia, has become a global cultural...
