By Jordan Miller, Teaching Professor of Public Health, Arizona State University
Trump’s nominee for the top CDC role would join the agency at a time of great turmoil and uncertainty for medical research.
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By Beth C. Caldwell, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Many gang members have tattoos to demonstrate their allegiance. But many people with no gang ties will get inked with similar imagery, which can lead law enforcement astray.
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By Annmarie Caño, Professor of Psychology, Gonzaga University
US college leaders would do well to reflect on the courage of their counterparts in 1980s El Salvador who opposed injustice despite grave personal risk.
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By Andreanne Bergeron, Affiliate Professor, Criminology, Université de Montréal
Earlier this year, doctored pornographic images of singer Taylor Swift that were widely circulated online drew attention to the growing phenomenon of deepfakes. While some see these as a technological innovation for artistic purposes, others consider them a worrying development in how digital technologies are being used to perpetuate gender-based violence.
This observation raises an essential question: Is there…
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By Bedassa Tadesse, Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth
President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping new tariff plan on April 2, 2025, to reshape U.S. trade and boost domestic industry.
Framing the announcement as “Liberation Day,” he proposed a 10% tariff on essentially all imports, with steeper rates for major trade partners, including 34% on Chinese goods and 20% on those from the European Union. Starting April 3, a 25%…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. © 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo (Geneva, April 3, 2025) – The United Nations Human Rights Council on April 3, 2025, began an intergovernmental process to draft an international human rights treaty on older people, Human Rights Watch said today. The consensus resolution is an important victory for human rights and multilateralism at a moment of increasing international uncertainty.Older people around the world experience a wide range of human rights violations on a daily…
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By Amnesty International
The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal areas are held accountable and take immediate steps to ensure that no person or group is targeted on the basis of their sect, Amnesty International said today. Militias affiliated with the government, killed more than 100 […] The post Syria: Coastal massacres of Alawite civilians must be investigated as war crimes appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Responding to today’s resolution by the UN Human Rights Council to establish a working group tasked with drafting an international treaty on the human rights of older people, Elena Sergi, Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Programme Campaigner, said: “The UN Human Rights Council has taken a major step forward. Today represents a milestone in the fight […] The post Global: UN move to draft a convention on rights of older people ‘a major step forward’ appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Stephanie Brodie, Research Scientist in Marine Ecology, CSIRO
Britta Denise Hardesty, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO
A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more places with no rubbish at all.
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By Bernard J.T. Jones, Emeritus Professor, University of Groningen
Licia Verde, Profesor ICREA de Cosmologia en el ICCUB de la Universidad de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
Vicent J. Martínez, Catedrático de Astronomía y Astrofísica de la Universitat de València, y miembro del Observatorio Astronómico de la misma institución, Universitat de València
Virginia L Trimble, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine
The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that “cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt”. In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a chance that we have got it all wrong, but we never let this stand in the way of our inquiries.
A few days ago, a new press release announced groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy…
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