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/ 3 months agoItalian teenager Carlo Acutis’ upcoming canonization reflects the Vatican’s desire to appeal to a new generation of Catholics
Italian priest Padre Pio was one of the world’s most prayed-to saints in recent times. As Pio’s generation ages, the Catholic...
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/ 3 months ago‘Time poverty’ can keep college students from graduating − especially if they have jobs or children to care for
Jobs and child care duties can seriously hamper a student’s chances of finishing college. The problem affects Black and Hispanic students...
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/ 3 months agoFrom thoughts to words: How AI deciphers neural signals to help a man with ALS speak
Listening in on neural activity is a promising way of restoring the ability to communicate for people whose bodies no longer...
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/ 3 months agoTreating Nord Stream blasts as a whodunit misses the point – and plays into Russia’s plan to distract and divide
Since saboteurs blew up the Russia-Germany gas pipelines in September 2022, theories have swirled about who was responsible. German prosecutors recently...
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/ 3 months agoHow debt and taxes conspired to rob Nairobi’s slum-dwelling youth of the promise of a better life
A 2010 constitution offered Kenyans economic and social rights that have faded in the face of mounting national debt.
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/ 3 months agoCan a political party get any attention when its rival holds a national convention? Yes, but it’s not easy
The best an opposing party can hope for during convention week is some sort of misfire. But those are rare in...
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/ 3 months agoWant to fight gender inequality? A review of data from 118 counties shows that development aid works
Aid successfully narrowed gender gaps in nearly every country researchers examined.
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/ 3 months agoAs human population grows, people and wildlife will share more living spaces around the world
As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land areas. A...
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/ 3 months agoThwaites Glacier won’t collapse like dominoes as feared, study finds, but that doesn’t mean the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is stable
Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is a disaster in slow motion, a polar scientist writes. But in a rare bit of good news,...
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/ 3 months agoRural voters don’t necessarily love Walz, despite the camo hat and small-town upbringing
It takes more than camo hats, hot dish and a rural-friendly image to get the votes of America’s rural residents.
