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/ 6 months agoAmericans used to unite over tragic events − and now are divided by them
Public tragedies are heartrending events that gain widespread public attention. But where once prominent tragedies often brought Americans together, such tragedies...
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/ 6 months agoSchool interventions offer best shot at reducing youth violence
Kids most likely to wind up in the ER due to violence often have common early childhood experiences. Can schools use...
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/ 6 months agoCentral banks face threats to their independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)
Monetary policy can be wielded as a tool to boost an economy around election time, which explains why politicians want to...
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/ 6 months agoFrom glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it
Dozens of animals, some on land but many in the ocean, can produce light within their bodies through chemical reactions. Scientists...
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/ 6 months agoCalls to US poison centers spiked after ‘magic mushrooms’ were decriminalized
Researchers found a sharp rise in calls to US poison centers about magic mushrooms coincided with their decriminalization in several US...
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/ 6 months agoSupreme Court unanimously concludes that anti-abortion groups have no standing to challenge access to mifepristone – but the drug likely faces more court challenges
The SCOTUS opinion did not take on the substance of the plaintiffs’ claims against mifepristone, and the abortion pill is already...
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/ 6 months agoSupreme Court sides with Starbucks in labor case that could hinder government’s ability to intervene in some unionization disputes
It’s not certain that the ruling will make it harder for fired union organizers to get their jobs back, a labor...
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/ 6 months agoAn homage to the dad joke, one of the great traditions of fatherhood
Cringe, corny and awkward − what’s not to love?
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/ 6 months agoThe US is losing wetlands at an accelerating rate − here’s how the private sector can help protect these valuable resources
The Supreme Court drastically reduced federal protection for wetlands in 2023. 2 environmental lawyers explain how private businesses and nongovernment organizations...
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/ 6 months agoSpace weather forecasting needs an upgrade to protect future Artemis astronauts
The Sun will be at its most explosive right around the time NASA plans to put people back on the Moon.
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/ 6 months agoSupreme Court justices secretly recorded – the legal issues and what they mean for the rest of us
Secret recordings raise questions about Justice Alito’s impartiality, but they also reveal the weak state of legal protections against the misuse...
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/ 6 months agoPeople ambivalent about political issues support violence more than those with clear opinions
The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme...
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/ 6 months agoUkraine’s draft woes leave the West facing pressure to make up for the troop shortfall
Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.
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/ 6 months agoPhiladelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people
Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from...
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/ 6 months agoCivil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice
Lawson learned in India how to resist racism and subsequently trained his students on the systematic use of nonviolence to fight...
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/ 6 months agoSpikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
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/ 6 months agoCities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning
Turning excess office space into apartments isn’t a panacea for the housing shortage, but it’s producing thousands of new units yearly...
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/ 6 months agoInflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut in 2024
The Federal Reserve is being characteristically cautious.
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/ 6 months agoMicrorobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment
Green algae carry drug-loaded nanoparticles directly to the lungs, reducing side effects in other organs and increasing treatment efficiency.
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/ 6 months agoColumbia Law Review article critical of Israel sparks battle between student editors and their board − highlighting fragility of academic freedom
It’s now clear that tensions in academia regarding concerns about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people aren’t limited to campus protests.
