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/ 1 year agoHow Russia has managed to shake off the impact of sanctions – with a little help from its friends
The US has imposed another round of sanctions following the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. But will it work?
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/ 1 year agoWhat is IVF? A nurse explains the evolving science and legality of in vitro fertilization
IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation may put it...
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/ 1 year agoWe’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed a boom-and-bust cycle...
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/ 1 year agoClimate comedy works − here’s why, and how it can help lighten up a politically heavy year in 2024
Jokes can be a healing contagion as they expose hypocrisy, spark laughter and open minds.
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/ 1 year agoBias hiding in plain sight: Decades of analyses suggest US media skews anti-Palestinian
How the media talks about suffering on one side compared with the other can often reveal bias in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
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/ 1 year agoHow teens benefit from being able to read ‘disturbing’ books that some want to ban
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to...
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/ 1 year agoA personal tale of intellectual humility – and the rewards of being open-minded
Daryl Van Tongeren explains what it means to be intellectually humble, and why it’s so important right now on The Conversation...
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/ 1 year agoCan Trump be prosecuted? Supreme Court will take up precedent-setting case to define the limits of presidential immunity
In a case that will make legal and political history, the US Supreme Court will consider whether Donald Trump is immune...
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/ 1 year agoMounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores
Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects...
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/ 1 year agoW.E.B. Du Bois’ study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ is still relevant 125 years later – Elijah Anderson explains why
Over a century ago, white Philadelphia elites believed the city was going to the dogs – and they blamed poor Black...
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/ 1 year agoMore than 100K Michigan voters pick ‘uncommitted’ over Biden − does that matter for November?
Organizers of the protest had set a goal of 11,000 uncommitted votes to show dissatisfaction with Biden’s support of Israel in...
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/ 1 year agoNigeria’s security problems deepen as Anglophone insurgency in Cameroon spills across border
Nigeria is beset with security threats. Confronting them will take regional and international cooperation.
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/ 1 year agoLow-level blasts from heavy weapons can cause traumatic brain injury − 2 engineers explain the physics of invisible cell death
The people manning the guns are also at risk of injury from the force of the weapon.
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/ 1 year agoWhat’s next for $25B supermarket supermerger after FTC sues to block it, saying it could raise prices
Turning two big supermarket companies into one even larger one could harm consumers and workers, the government says.
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/ 1 year agoHow educator Gloria Jean Merriex used dance, drills and devotion to turn around a failing elementary school in a year
A new documentary highlights teaching techniques of an educator who went the extra mile for her students.
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/ 1 year agoThe true cost of food is far higher than what you spend at the checkout counter
A new UN report finds that the true global cost of producing food is $12.7 trillion more than consumers pay at...
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/ 1 year agoMental fatigue has psychological triggers − new research suggests challenging goals can head it off
Setting specific, hard-to-reach goals seems to help people maintain motivation, while preventing them from feeling as drained by mental tasks.
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/ 1 year agoAnyone can play Tetris, but architects, engineers and animators alike use the math concepts underlying the game
People young and old love the classic video game Tetris. A working knowledge of the spatial reasoning concepts underlying Tetris can...
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/ 1 year agoGOP primary elections use flawed math to pick nominees
There are many ways bad mathematics interferes with our democracy. Assigning delegates is just one example.
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/ 1 year agoHow media coverage of presidential primaries fails voters and has helped Trump
In a general election, most people will vote for their party’s candidate. But in a primary, voters rely on media coverage...
