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New NFL helmet accessory reduces concussions − but players and fans may not be ready to embrace safety over swag - Noah Cohan, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

3 days ago

'Homicide: Life on the Streets' laid the groundwork for Peak TV – and it's finally available to stream for new and old fans of the series -- Summit Osur, Quinnipiac University

3 days ago

How organized labor shames its traitors − the story of the 'scab' -- Ian Afflerbach, University of North Georgia

11 days ago

Kamala's kicks, Tim's lids, and the red ties that bind Trump and Vance – what's behind the fashion choices of each candidate -- Deirdre Clemente, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

15 days ago

Robots are coming to the kitchen − what that could mean for society and culture -- Patrick Lin, California Polytechnic State University

8 days ago

I documented dozens of shrines to people who've died in North Philly − here's what they tell us about memory, grief and trauma -- Gordon Coonfield, Villanova University

10 days ago

When Paralympic athletes fake the extent of their disability -- Jaime Schultz, Penn State

8 days ago

How do breakdancers avoid breaking their necks? -- Aliza Rudavsky, Penn State

25 days ago

Imane Khelif's gold medal run shows how sex testing in women's sports puts regulators in an impossible bind -- Jaime Schultz, Penn State

29 days ago

As an Aussie makes baseball history, the sport's dark past is a clue to why it never took off here -- Ray Nickson, University of Newcastle

1 month ago

ChatGPT and the movie 'Her' are just the latest example of the 'sci-fi feedback loop' -- Rizwan Virk, Arizona State University

2 months ago

Even fictional presidents don't look like Kamala Harris − although Black men and white women have been represented in the Oval Office -- Peter Kastor, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

25 days ago

Despite its big night at the Oscars, 'Oppenheimer' is a disappointment and a lost opportunity -- Naoko Wake, Michigan State University

1 month ago

How 'Dune' became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement − and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology -- Devin Griffiths, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

2 months ago

Bradley Cooper, Cillian Murphy and the myths of Method acting -- Scott Malia, College of the Holy Cross

2 months ago

How the surrealists used randomness as a catalyst for creative expression -- Mark Robert Rank, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

2 months ago

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam -- Renee DiResta, Stanford University; Abhiram Reddy, Georgetown University, and Josh A. Goldstein, Georgetown University

2 months ago

'Hidden mother' photos don't erase moms − rather, they reveal the labor and love that support the child -- Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester College

2 months ago

For graffiti artists, abandoned skyscrapers in Miami and Los Angeles become a canvas for regular people to be seen and heard -- Colette Gaiter, University of Delaware

2 months ago

Missy Elliott tours as a headliner − and it's about time -- Elliott H. Powell, University of Minnesota

1 month ago

By not lip-syncing Amy Winehouse's songs, actress Marisa Abela confronts impossible expectations in 'Back to Black' -- Katherine Meizel, Bowling Green State University

2 months ago

The science behind Ariana Grande's vocal metamorphosis -- Lydia Kruse, Purdue University

1 month ago

The real 'Big Bang' of country music: How Vernon Dalhart's 1924 breakthrough recordings launched a genre -- Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University

25 days ago

'Born in the USA' turns 40 − and still remains one of Bruce Springsteen's most misunderstood songs -- Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

2 months ago

JD Vance is no pauper − he's a classic example of 'poornography,' in which the rich try to speak on behalf of the poor -- Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois Chicago

23 days ago

3 of Jane Austen's 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views -- Devoney Looser, Arizona State University

23 days ago

Palestinian writers have long explored the horrors of amputation -- Graham Liddell, Hope College

2 months ago

In praise of the weird -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

22 days ago

His crayon is purple – but is Harold a Black boy? -- Philip Nel, Kansas State University

15 days ago

Video game performers are becoming Hollywood stars in their own right − and are on strike to be paid and protected accordingly -- James Dawes, Macalester College

1 month ago

Journalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis -- Matthew Powers, University of Washington

2 months ago

Newsrooms are experimenting with generative AI, warts and all -- Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston

2 months ago

There's a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by 'becoming' Black -- Alisha Gaines, Florida State University

2 months ago

What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame -- Stacy Keltner, Kennesaw State University

2 months ago

What America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation -- Matthew Wynn Sivils, Iowa State University

2 months ago

Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found – and archaeologists are starting to understand how they rebuilt their lives -- Steven L. Tuck, Miami University

2 months ago

Why I turned the 'Red Dead Redemption II' video game into a history class on America's violent past -- Tore Olsson, University of Tennessee

1 month ago

How the 18th-century 'probability revolution' fueled the casino gambling craze -- John Eglin, University of Montana

2 months ago

How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality -- Anya Jabour, University of Montana

10 days ago

Colorado is home to the longest-running gay rodeo in the world -- Rebecca Scofield, University of Idaho and Elyssa Ford, Northwest Missouri State University

1 month ago

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people -- Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington

2 months ago

Transgender regret? Research challenges narratives about gender-affirming surgeries -- Harry Barbee, Johns Hopkins University; Bashar Hassan, Johns Hopkins University, and Fan Liang, Johns Hopkins University

2 months ago

A short history of the rise, fall and return of Detroit's Michigan Central Station -- Mila Puccini, Wayne State University and Jeffrey Horner, Wayne State University

1 month ago

Who gets to decide what counts as 'disorder'? -- Jess Reia, University of Virginia

2 months ago

'House of the Dragon' was inspired by the chaos of the Middle Ages, a world without law and order -- David Routt, University of Richmond

1 month ago

Bob Newhart was more than an actor or comedian – he was a literary master -- Mark Canada, Indiana University Kokomo

1 month ago

How the sounds of 'Succession' shred the grandeur and respect the characters so desperately try to project -- Delia Casadei, University of California, Berkeley

2 months ago

Scrappy, campy and unabashedly queer, public access TV series of the 1980s and 1990s offered a rare glimpse into LGBTQ+ life -- Lauren Herold, Kenyon College

2 months ago

James Clavell's 'Shōgun' is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers -- Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2 months ago

How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder -- Edward B. Westermann, Texas A&M University-San Antonio

1 day ago

Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America? -- Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University

5 days ago