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/ 1 year agoBabe Ruth, patron saint of the home run, turned the ball field into a church – and lived his own Catholic faith in the spotlight
Ruth’s headline-grabbing home runs helped his sport recover from scandal, while his own story helped combat anti-Catholic prejudice.
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/ 1 year agoWhat is a virtual power plant? An energy expert explains
Some power plants don’t have massive smokestacks or cooling towers – or even a central site.
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/ 1 year agoIsrael is getting a surge in donations from the US in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks
As American Jews grieve, many are giving as well.
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/ 1 year ago#UsToo: How antisemitism and Islamophobia make reporting sexual misconduct and abuse of power harder for Jewish and Muslim women
In minority faith groups that already face hate, women who have experienced harassment sometimes fear bringing negative attention to their community.
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/ 1 year agoLouise Glück honed her poetic voice across a lifetime to speak to us from beyond the grave
A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet...
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/ 1 year agoWhat the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and 2,500 years of forest history – tell us about the future of wildfires in the West
As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is...
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/ 1 year agoDecades of underfunding, blockade have weakened Gaza’s health system – the siege has pushed it into abject crisis
Hospitals have been destroyed, and doctors and health care staff killed. Gaza’s health services may take years to recover, warns a...
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/ 1 year agoA reflexive act of military revenge burdened the US − and may do the same for Israel
The US response to 9/11 included a declaration that America would destroy its enemies. The effort took decades, and thousands of...
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/ 1 year agoGangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government
The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native...
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/ 1 year agoGun deaths among children and teens have soared – but there are ways to reverse the trend
Fatalities from gun homicides, suicides and accidents are all up for Americans ages 18 and under.
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/ 1 year agoWhy is space so dark even though the universe is filled with stars?
An astronomer explains why space looks so dark despite containing 200 billion trillion stars.
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/ 1 year agoHow the ‘laws of war’ apply to the conflict between Israel and Hamas
A scholar of the laws of war explores the complex issues raised by Israeli bombing of Gaza in retaliation for the...
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/ 1 year agoDeadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust spurs a crisis of confidence in the idea of Israel – and its possible renewal
Israel’s foundational social contract – that the government would keep Israelis safe – was severed with the deadly attacks by Hamas...
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/ 1 year agoReflections on hope during unprecedented violence in the Israel-Hamas war
Israel’s war with Hamas is unlike anything Israelis have seen before in some important ways, writes an Israeli filmmaker. But in...
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/ 1 year agoAn itching paradox – a molecule that triggers the urge to scratch also turns down inflammation in the skin
Itch-sensing neurons in your skin are intertwined with your immune cells. Counterintuitively, the molecule that connects them triggers responses that both...
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/ 1 year agoWildfire smoke leaves harmful gases in floors and walls − air purifiers aren’t enough, new study shows, but you can clean it up
Wildfire smoke, even from fires far away, carries potentially harmful gases that, once inside, tend to stick around. An air quality...
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/ 1 year agoEmpire building has always come at an economic cost for Russia – from the days of the czars to Putin’s Ukraine invasion
A new study traces how Russia’s empire building, especially in Ukraine, resulted in long-term economic damage and fomented rebellion for over...
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/ 1 year agoIsrael’s Iron Dome air defense system works well – here’s how Hamas got around it
If Israel’s Iron Dome is the best air defense system in the world, how did so many Hamas missiles get through?...
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/ 1 year agoFrom ancient Jewish texts to androids to AI, a just-right sequence of numbers or letters turns matter into meaning
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right...
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/ 1 year agoSteep physical decline with age is not inevitable – here’s how strength training can change the trajectory
Weightlifting and other forms of resistance training can help stave off loss of muscle mass and other age-related physical decline.
