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/ 4 weeks agoTrump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’
There are three pending criminal cases and four people the US will not release but also cannot put on trial.
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/ 4 weeks agoNewly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless victims a voice,’ says project’s...
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/ 4 weeks agoRed light therapy shows promise for pain relief, inflammation and skin conditions – but other claims might be hyped
For decades, red light therapy has been an adjunct treatment for numerous ailments. But it may not work for all the...
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/ 4 weeks agoReproductive health care faces legal and surveillance challenges post-Roe – new research offers guidance
Patients rely on abortion clinics to protect their privacy. The providers have work to do to catch up to today’s digital...
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/ 4 weeks agoOne large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.
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/ 4 weeks agoMicrogravity in space may cause cancer − but on Earth, mimicking weightlessness could help researchers develop treatments
Cells function differently under low gravity conditions. Rather than send lab samples to space, researchers are developing Earth-bound tools to more...
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/ 4 weeks agoSeizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression
A historian of artistic censorship sees chilling similarities to 19th-century anti-obscenity crusades.
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/ 4 weeks agoUS Supreme Court is unabashedly liberal − in its writing style
While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more colloquial and...
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/ 4 weeks agoPresident Trump promises to make government efficient − and he’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others
He wants to change government and the role it plays in a big way. Congress might make that hard.
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/ 4 weeks agoThe technology that runs Congress lags so far behind the modern world that its flag-tracking system just caught up to 2017-era Pizza Hut
The information systems Congress uses have existed largely unchanged for decades, while the world has experienced an information revolution.
