Gaza's health service is on life support

What is a virtual power plant? An energy expert explains

Daniel Cohan, Rice University

Some power plants don’t have massive smokestacks or cooling towers – or even a central site.

What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and 2,500 years of forest history – tell us about the future of wildfires in the West

Kyra Clark-Wolf, University of Colorado Boulder; Philip Higuera, University of Montana

As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?

Israel is getting a surge in donations from the US in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks

Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim, Indiana University

As American Jews grieve, many are giving as well.

Antisemitism and Islamophobia make reporting sexual misconduct and abuse harder for Jewish and Muslim women

Keren McGinity, Brandeis University

In minority faith groups that already face hate, women who have experienced harassment sometimes fear bringing negative attention to their community.

Louise Glück honed her poetic voice across a lifetime to speak to us from beyond the grave

Amy Cannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.

Deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust spurs a crisis of confidence in the idea of Israel – and its possible renewal

Avner Cohen, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Israel’s foundational social contract – that the government would keep Israelis safe – was severed with the deadly attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

Egypt’s Rafah crossing is a lifeline to Palestinians living in Gaza - but opening it is still unresolved

Lorenzo Navone, Université de Strasbourg

The Rafah crossing has historically played a pivotal role in easing the hardships faced by Gazans. Today, it represents an actual lifeline.

How the ‘laws of war’ apply to the conflict between Israel and Hamas

Why is space so dark even though the universe is filled with stars?

Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government