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Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation

Written by Robert Glennon, Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona

A water pump outside a home on the Navajo Nation in Thoreau, N.M.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to...

Titan submersible disaster underscores dangers of deep-sea exploration – an engineer explains why most ocean science is conducted with crewless submarines

Written by Nina Mahmoudian, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Researchers are increasingly using small, autonomous underwater robots to collect data in the world's oceans.NOAA Teacher at Sea Program,NOAA Ship PISCES, CC BY-SA

Rescuers spotted debris from the tourist submarine Titan on the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic on June 22, 2023, indicating that the vessel suffered a catastrophic failure and...

Fear trumps anger when it comes to data breaches – angry customers vent, but fearful customers don't come back

Written by Rajendran Murthy, Professor of Marketing, Rochester Institute of Technology

One-third of customers will return to a hacked site without even changing their password, according to a recent study.d3sign/Moment Collection/Getty Images

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

When a person is notified of a data breach involving their personal information, if they react with a feeling of...

How pardoning extremists undermines the rule of law

Written by Michael H. Becker, Doctoral Student, Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology, American University

Former President Donald Trump has said he may pardon recently convicted leaders of the Proud Boys. Here, Proud Boys members protest in Salem, Ore., on Jan. 8, 2022.Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / AFP via Getty Images

In the past 10 years, there has been an increase in far-right political violence in the United States. While scholars have pointed to several...

How will AI affect workers? Tech waves of the past show how unpredictable the path can be

Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Personal computers started an information technology revolution. Will AI bring similarly dramatic changes? Bettmann via Getty Images

The explosion of interest in artificial intelligence has drawn attention not only to the astonishing capacity of algorithms to mimic humans but to the reality that these algorithms could displace many humans in their...

Ocean heat is off the charts – here's what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world

Written by Annalisa Bracco, Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Indian Ocean's heat is having effects on land, too.NOAA Coral Reef Watch

Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March 2023, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world.

The sea of Japan is more than 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees...

Islam's call to prayer is ringing out in more US cities -- affirming a long and growing presence of Muslims in America

Written by Leila Tarakji, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University

Minneapolis allows call to prayer to be publicly broadcast five times per day.Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim call to prayer, to be broadcast from mosques five times a day.

In April 2023, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a change to...

China and the US are locked in struggle -- and the visit by Secretary of State Blinken is only a start to improving relations

Written by Krista Wiegand, Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins government officials from the U.S. and China during a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023. Leah Millis/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

In the weeks building up to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China on June 18-19, 2023,...

Why no living people appear on US postage stamps

Written by Richard Handler, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia

The practice of putting images of only deceased or allegorical people on U.S. stamps dates back to 1847.Schulte Productions/iStock via Getty Images Plus

With the ascension of King Charles III to the British throne, some commentators have made much of the fact that the new stamp bearing his image features the king without a crown.

This is a major...

Announcing The Conversation's new investigative unit – we're looking for collaborators in academia

Written by Beth Daley, Executive Editor and General Manager

Kurt Eichenwald, left, The Conversation's investigative editor, and Georgia State professor David Maimon working.The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Today we published our first story from The Conversation’s investigative unit, a significant expansion of our mission to ensure expert knowledge reaches the widest public audience possible.

Our incredible...