Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Marc Zimmer, Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College International students have been a big part of American STEM. Rick Friedman/AFP via Getty Images Despite representing only 4% of the world’s population, the United States accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes awarded since 2000, hosts seven…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Vikash V. Gayah, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Penn State Research shows left turns at intersections are dangerous and slow traffic. Benjamin Rondel/The Image Bank via Getty Images More than 60% of traffic collisions at intersections involve left turns. Some U.S. cities – including San Francisco,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Olayinka Ajala, Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country’s military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Adi Foord, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This is a James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 604, a star-forming region about 2.7 million light-years from Earth. NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Elena Merenda, Associate Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber Lilo’s story offers a meaningful glimpse into how grief shows up in children through their emotions and actions. (Disney) This story contains spoilers about Lilo & Stitch. At first glance, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, set…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Rebecca Woods, Associate Professor, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto A photograph of a steppe mammoth on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney. (Unsplash/April Pethybridge), CC BY In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Charlotte Milne, PhD Candidate, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia Every spring, melting snow and heavy rainfall brings a higher risk of flooding and riverbank erosion to parts of Canada. Bank erosion is responsible for a significant portion of annual flood damage…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Maurice Hutton, Research Associate, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester Kontuthu Ziyathunqa – Smoke Rising – was what they used to call Bulawayo when the city was the industrial powerhouse of Zimbabwe. Now, many of its factories lie dormant or derelict. The daily…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Luca Bussotti, Professor at the PhD Course in Peace, Democracy, Social Movements and Human Development, Universidade Técnica de Moçambique (UDM) Samora Moisés Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, was born in 1933 in Gaza province, in the south of the country. He died in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Torsten Jaccard, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia It should come as no surprise that United States President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have renewed interest in building pipelines that don’t rely on access to the American market. Almost four million barrels of crude oil…