2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries
- Written by Gaurav Khanna, Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The New York Times’ exclusive on President Donald Trump’s taxes contains a lot of startling new findings.
A few noteworthy examples: He paid only US$750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017 – and nothing at all in 10 of the previous 15 years; he took...
Members of a U.S.-bound migrant caravan from Honduras have been detained in Guatemala and deported before they could reach Mexico. Though their journey was...
The battle over the replacement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has refocused American attention on the future of the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear...
Presidential elections are anxious times for federal land agencies and the people they serve. The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service manage more than a quarter of the nation’s land, which means...
Read more: The 2020 elections will determine which voices dominate public land debates
A film industry in free fall just suffered its latest blow.
Cineworld Group, the owner of Regal Cinemas, announced that it would suspend operations at all of its locations in the U.S. and U.K. as crowded theaters continue to be seen as petri dishes for a...
If you think that vice presidential debates – like the one on Oct. 7 between Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris – have no political impact, I have two words for you: Dan Quayle.
Afte...
Former Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Yet despite their obvious legal disagreements, the liberal Ginsburg once described herself and...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Women and Asian students are significantly less likely than their counterparts who identify as men or white to receive payment during internships. This finding is...
Read more: Paid internships elusive for women and Asian college students
Before the family housing program opened at his university, Blake and his two young daughters were couch-surfing at the homes of their friends and family.
“They only saw me coming and going,” Blake explains,...
Read more: Student housing is scarce for college students who have kids