Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder Moose may have been in Colorado longer than previously thought. Illustration courtesy of Ettore Mazza, CC BY-ND Moose are on the loose in the southern Rockies. In July 2025, a young wandering bull was…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Guangwen Zhou, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York Rust can attack the surfaces of old metal objects, such as bicycles. Sami Auvinen/iStock via Getty Images Plus Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Rami Zeedan, Associate Professor, University of Kansas An elderly Druze man stands near Syria’s new flag and the multicolored Druze flag in Al Karama Square in the city of Sweida on March 4, 2025. AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki Fighting has flared on and off in southern…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Li Qiao, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University Researchers are working to make aviation fuel more environmentally friendly. Tsvetomir Hristov/Moment via Getty Images The federal spending law passed in early July 2025, often called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, significantly reduces federal funding…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Kris Inman, Professor of African Studies and Security Studies, Georgetown University Ghanaian special forces take part in U.S. military-led counterterrorism training near Jacqueville, Ivory Coast, on Feb. 16, 2022. AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui Staff at the State Department’s Office of Countering Violent Extremism and Bureau of Conflict…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Melanie Prentice, Research Associate, University of British Columbia A sunflower sea star in Knight Inlet on the British Columbia coast. (Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute) In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Hamza Tariq, PhD Student, Cognitive Psychology, University of Waterloo New inventions — like the printing press, magnetic compasses, steam engines, calculators and the internet — can create radical shifts in our everyday lives. Many of these new technologies were met with some degree of skepticism by…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Tamara de Szegheo Lang, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University, Ontario “If coming out of the closet was really as much fun as it is for the sexually adventurous youths in Better Than Chocolate, then everybody would be doing it, even straight…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Billie Anderson, Ph.D. Candidate, Media Studies, Western University Joaquin Phoenix, left, who plays small-town sheriff Joe Cross, and Pedro Pascal, who plays the town’s mayor, Ted Garcia, in a scene from Ari Aster’s film ‘Eddington.’ (A24) This story contains spoilers about ‘Eddington,’ ‘Midsommar’ and ‘Hereditary.’ Ari…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne South Sudan’s chief justice, Chan Reec Madut, was sacked in late May 2025 after more than 13 years on the bench. Madut leaves behind a legacy of inefficiency and accusations of judicial graft. But the…