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Assad leaves behind a fragmented nation – stabilizing it will be a major challenge for fractured opposition and external backers  Author: Sefa Secen, Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies, Nazareth University

Adults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening  Author: Aswathy Ammothumkandy, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California

Protests, sectarian violence and a growing spat with India: Bangladesh’s new leaders are beset with challenges to its democracy  Author: Manoj Misra, Associate Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University

What is the ‘way of the warrior’? Students investigate the arts of war and peace in this course about virtue and the ethics of violence  Author: Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Hamilton College

Trump attacks diversity, but a fellow New Yorker − US Rep. Vito Marcantonio − worked to represent all Americans in a multiracial democracy  Author: Sandhya Shukla, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Virginia

Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will survive  Author: Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno

What is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks  Author: Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer, CSEE & Assistant Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve  Author: Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona

What does the NASA administrator do? The agency’s leader reaches for the stars while navigating budgets and politics back on Earth  Author: Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University