Hacking the climate: Can geoengineering slow global warming?

Want to help Maui’s animals after the wildfires? Send cash, not kibble

Sarah DeYoung, University of Delaware

Animal shelters and other organizations that support pets and their owners after disasters will still need help months after the media has moved on.

Tropical Storm Hilary pounds Southern California with heavy rain, flash flooding

Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa

Forecasters warned of ‘potentially historic rainfall’ and ‘dangerous to locally catastrophic flooding.’ A hurricane scientist explains what El Niño, a heat dome and mountains have to do with the risk.

Israel’s democracy protests: What happens next?

Dov Waxman, University of California, Los Angeles

What will happen in Israel after more than half a year of pro-democracy demonstrations against the conservative government’s judicial overhaul?

Presidential pauses? What those ‘ums’ and ‘uhs’ really tell us about candidates for the White House

Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno

Long treated as a sign of anxiety or a delaying tactic, ‘filled pauses’ are a linguistic trick to signal that what you are about to say might be complicated.

As BRICS cooperation accelerates, is it time for the US to develop a BRICS policy?

Mihaela Papa, Tufts University; Frank O'Donnell, Boston College; Zhen Han, Sacred Heart University

BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – compose 41% of the world population and almost a third of global GDP.

Yellowknife and Kelowna wildfires burn in what is already Canada’s worst season on record

Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria

The devastating wildfire that destroyed the historic Maui town of Lahaina was still making headlines when Yellowknife issued an evacuation order.

What the pope’s visit to Mongolia says about his priorities and how he is changing the Catholic Church

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa

A scholar of Roman Catholicism explains why Pope Francis’ visit to Mongolia, home to fewer than 1,500 Catholics, is significant.

The idea that imprisonment ‘corrects’ prisoners stretches back to some of the earliest texts in history

J. Nicholas Reid, Reformed Theological Seminary

Mesopotamia’s prisons were built for detaining people, not punishing them. But they shaped powerful ideas about justice and reform that aren’t so different from today’s.

Social media algorithms warp how people learn from each other, research shows

William Brady, Northwestern University

Social media companies’ drive to keep you on their platforms clashes with how people evolved to learn from each other. One result is more conflict and misinformation.

Caroline Herschel was the first female astronomer, but she still lacks name recognition two centuries later

Kris Pardo, University of Southern California

Astronomer Caroline Herschel’s work discovering and cataloging astronomical objects in the 18th century is still used in the field today, but she didn’t always get her due credit.

AI and new standards promise to make scientific data more useful by making it reusable and accessible

Bradley Wade Bishop, University of Tennessee

The phrase ‘research data management’ might make your eyes glaze over, but it’s actually this behind-the-scenes work that allows for large-scale scientific discoveries and collaborations.

Can you cry underwater?

Geoffrey Bradford, West Virginia University

An ophthalmologist explains how important tears are to keeping your eyes feeling good and working well – whether you’re on dry land or swimming in a body of water.

Georgia indictment and post-Civil War history make it clear: Trump’s actions have already disqualified him from the presidency

Can coffee or a nap make up for sleep deprivation? A psychologist explains why there’s no substitute for shut-eye

Oppenheimer often used Sanskrit verses, and the Bhagavad Gita was special for him − but not in the way Christopher Nolan’s film depicts it