A visual analytics tool helps child welfare specialists understand machine learning predictions that can assist them in screening cases.

Professor Lily Tsai’s new book explains how “retributive justice,” the high-profile sanctioning of some in society, helps authoritarians solidify public support.

With a new National Science Foundation grant, Justin Reich and collaborators will apply information literacy research to communities outside the formal education system.

Plus, how a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony using AI. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

The footprints offer hints of people's real lives 23,000 years ago. "What we see here is also activity of play, and of different ages coming together."

PhD student Ying Gao's research reveals that the urban poor in the developing world are politically engaged and capable of effecting change.

The New Mexico findings could rewrite the history of human migration to the Americas.

The beads are some of the earliest evidence of people expressing identity with clothing. "They're the tip of the iceberg for that kind of human trait."

New research by political science PhD candidate Meicen Sun illuminates the broad economic and political impacts of internet restrictions.

Political science PhD student Emilia Simison has found that despotic regimes vary, and the move to democracy doesn’t necessarily guarantee policy change.