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/ 5 months agoWant to spur your child’s intellectual development? Use audiobooks instead of videos
Audiobooks can develop children’s listening skills, expand their vocabulary and encourage independent learning.
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/ 5 months agoStroke survivors may be saddled with an invisible disability known as spatial neglect – but a simple treatment offers significant improvement
About half of those recovering from a stroke or a brain injury have spatial neglect. But prism adaptation therapy – noninvasive...
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/ 5 months agoSocial media and political violence – how to break the cycle
When political discourse is devoid of facts and high on demonization, it’s no surprise that political violence is the result. There...
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/ 5 months agoTrump-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s classified document case is unconstitutional – here’s how special counsels have been authorized before
In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that independent counsels were constitutional.
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/ 5 months agoTarget just became the latest US retailer to stop accepting payment by checks. Why have so many stores given up on them?
Next time you go shopping, leave your checkbook at home.
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/ 5 months agoNutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
The process of converting food into nutritional information is more than just a scientific process. It involves many political and technical...
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/ 5 months agoNew research suggests estrogen and progesterone could play role in opioid addiction and relapse
Why are some individuals at greater risk for developing opioid dependence and addiction? Two neuroscientists at Rowan University discuss their latest...
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/ 5 months agoHow to protect your home from wildfires – here’s what fire prevention experts say is most important
Roofs, windows and siding all affect how vulnerable a home is and how likely it is to survive a wildfire. So...
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/ 5 months agoTrump’s assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
Lone wolf attackers like Matthew Thomas Crooks pose the greatest security threats in the country – and are hardest to prevent.
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/ 5 months agoDecades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
Christian and Jewish themes influenced the world of art around one of jazz’s greatest singers.
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/ 5 months agoElecting a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
Presidential immunity can bring with it many risks. So how can we think about the nature and limits of such immunity?
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/ 5 months agoHow Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap
Curators from the Smithsonian will be at the GOP convention collecting items from buttons to banners. Their goal: to add objects...
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/ 5 months agoMichigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited
Michigan’s migrant farmworkers are the backbone of the country’s second-most diverse agricultural economy. Social and labor protections for them fall short.
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/ 5 months agoFlying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
Advances in technology, training and maintenance have helped make an inherently challenging vehicle – rotorcraft – safe.
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/ 5 months agoCould people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
Liquid water, breathable air and a sustainable food supply are three of the essentials Mars would need for people to live...
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/ 5 months ago‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
A scholar of political assassinations says the US just narrowly avoided plunging into wholesale violence and potential civil war when Donald...
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/ 6 months agoBiden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and other presidents showed that getting limited information as president can have some benefits – but...
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/ 6 months agoAs nativist politics surge across Europe, soccer’s ‘Euros’ showcase a more benign form of nationalism
The most successful teams at Europe’s soccer championship comprise diverse players, often thanks to immigration. Could that be influencing fans’ views...
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/ 6 months agoSupermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged
X-rays emitted around black holes can tell astrophysicists about how fast they’re growing.
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/ 6 months agoMeteorites from Mars help scientists understand the red planet’s interior
These rare rocks come in a few different types, which can tell geologists about Mars’ volcanic past and hint at its...
