Medical breakthroughs have indirect costs

In spite of anti-DEI pressures, top corporations continued to diversify in 2024: new research

Richie Zweigenhaft, Guilford College

The boards of directors for the top 50 Fortune 500 companies are slightly more diverse than they were in 2023.

Even as polarization surges, Americans believe they live in a compassionate country

Tara Sonenshine, Tufts University

Compassion starts with the individual – self-care and personal wellness. It then radiates out to the wider community in the form of action and engagement.

Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights − an archaeologist describes the day that lesson hit home

Christopher Wolff, University at Albany, State University of New York

Repatriation is now a legal responsibility, but also a matter of human rights, an anthropologist writes.

China flexes it media muscle in Africa – encouraging positive headlines as part of a soft power agenda

Mitchell Gallagher, Wayne State University

Beijing has long used infrastructure development as a means of building influence in Africa. Now, it’s using media as well.

We interviewed hundreds of Israelis and Gazans – here’s why we fear for the ceasefire

Nils Mallock, London School of Economics and Political Science; Jeremy Ginges, London School of Economics and Political Science

Recent research shows the level of mistrust between Israelis and Palestinians.

Address science misinformation not by repeating the facts, but by building conversation and community

Anne Toomey, Pace University

For science to have a meaningful impact on a group of people, new information needs to spread between trusted members of that community.

Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences

Nicole M. McNeil, University of Notre Dame; Robert Stuart Siegler, Columbia University

The nonpartisan arm of the Education Department supports research and shares data on student progress. It identifies what works and what doesn’t.

Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there

Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut

Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.

Rural Americans don’t live as long as those in cities − new research

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, University of Southern California; Bryan Tysinger, University of Southern California; Jack Chapel, University of Southern California

The study shows rates for smoking, obesity and chronic conditions such as heart disease are comparatively higher in rural areas, leading to shorter life expectancy.

LA flash flood watch: Rain on wildfire burn scars can trigger destructive debris flows − a geologist explains how

Jen Pierce, Boise State University

Debris flows can move with the speed of a freight train, picking up and demolishing anything in their path.

How the war in Ukraine has made flying worse for the climate

Viktoriia Ivannikova, Dublin City University

No-fly zones in Europe and the Middle East are making planes travel further and burn more fuel.

NOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match it

Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it

If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?