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/ 2 months agoCan Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so...
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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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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/ 2 months 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.
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/ 2 months agoAs Syria ponders a democratic future: 5 lessons from the Arab Spring
Syria faces real challenges. A look at the research on post-Arab Spring challenges offers some answers for a region wracked by...
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/ 2 months agoHealth and Human Services secretary influences every aspect of America’s health
Overseeing the FDA, NIH and several other public health and medical research divisions, the HHS secretary is a powerful force in...
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/ 2 months agoMark Zuckerberg thinks workplaces need to ‘man up’ − here’s why that’s bad for all employees, no matter their gender
Do companies need to embrace a more diesel-fueled, meat-eating mentality? Many already do – and the results aren’t pretty, according to...
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/ 2 months agoAfter the fire: Rain on wildfire burn scars can trigger deadly debris flows – a geologist explains how
In the Los Angeles area, the potential for rain on land burned by a series of devastating fires has people on...
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/ 2 months ago10 years after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, conversations about free speech are still too black and white
When satire targets marginalized groups, it risks reinforcing harmful stereotypes rather than challenging them.
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/ 2 months agoKremlin promotes ‘traditional values’ – but leaves some battles to the governors
Russia’s emphasis on what it deems family values comes from the top, but some of the policies that most impact Russians...
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/ 2 months agoFDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history
Over 35 years after the first study linking Red 3 to thyroid cancer in rats was published, the US is beginning...
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/ 2 months agoMeet phosphine, a gas commonly used for industrial fumigation that can damage your lungs, heart and liver
While scientists still aren’t sure how phosphine wreaks so much havoc on the body, some are developing medications that can help...
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/ 2 months agoWhat another Lukashenko ‘victory’ will mean for Europe’s security – and that of Belarus’ citizenry
In power since 1994, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko has aligned the country with Russia in an ideological battle with the West.
