Spacecraft captures a solar flare as it builds into an explosive outburst
Europe’s Solar Orbiter is helping researchers understand what causes the Sun to blast out radiation and particles
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By stoking the Greenland debate, the United States may actually be harming itself
As the US administration led by Donald Trump has continued to reassert its interest in owning Greenland, Europe has become more and more concerned about the security situation in the Arctic.
Entrepreneurial success under corruption depends on generation and experience, study finds
A new article in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal offers a nuanced view of how corruption affects entrepreneurial performance by showing that entrepreneurs’ generational backgrounds play a critical role in shaping outcomes. Moving beyond debates about whether corruption universally harms or…
Indian townships are rebuilding after landslides—but not everyone will benefit
In the early hours of July 30, 2024, a landslide in the Wayanad district of Kerala state, India, killed 400 people. The Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Vellarimala and Chooralmala villages in the Western Ghats mountain range turned into a dystopian rubble of…
Mysterious polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn could be key to understanding their insides
“I don’t think anyone’s made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets.”
NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Retires
NASA astronaut Suni Williams at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Naval Ordnance Test Unit basin in Florida on March 28, 2018. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27,…
New details capture 13 years of wage-related laws, show increased protections for workers in the US
For more than a decade, local and state laws have been increasingly focused on providing more protection and agency to workers fighting wage theft, according to new data published on LawAtlas.org and analysis in a new article in the American…
Digital media breaks can improve well-being
What effect does it have on our well-being when we put our smartphones aside for a while or otherwise disconnect from digital media? Alicia Gilbert, a research associate at the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), together…
Political writing retains an important and complex role in the UK’s national conversation, new book shows
Political published writing retains an “important and complex role” in the national conversation—despite huge social and technological changes this century, a new book shows.
Ancient Jordan mass grave reveals human impact of first known pandemic
“A plague is upon us” may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious malady that would shape both a society and an era of civilization.