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/ 9 months agoHow to stay safe during lightning storms – summer is the highest-risk season
National Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 23-29, 2024. With the U.S. averaging 37 million lightning strikes and 21 deaths a...
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/ 9 months ago‘Loyal to the Oil’: Finding religion in the Stanley Cup finals
The Edmonton Oilers are more than a hockey team. In some ways, they symbolize devotion to a way of life −...
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/ 9 months agoWhy expanding access to algebra is a matter of civil rights
Districts across the country have struggled to improve access and diversity in advanced math classes for years. A new approach offers...
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/ 9 months agoCourt blocks grants to Black women entrepreneurs in case that could restrict DEI efforts by companies and charities
A scholar of nonprofits explains why she’s concerned that the decision in the Fearless Fund case could discourage all efforts focused...
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/ 9 months agoLynn Conway was a trans woman in tech − and underappreciated for decades after she helped launch the computing revolution
The trailblazing engineer was co-inventor of a technique for designing computer chips that laid the groundwork for the computing revolution.
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/ 9 months agoRaw milk health risks significantly outweigh any potential benefits − food scientists and nutritionists explain why
Raw milk has always carried the risk of serious illness, and this risk has only risen with bird flu spreading across...
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/ 9 months agoPaying reparations for slavery is possible – based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups
Since the 1930s, the federal government has made payments to victims of financial hardships and social injustices. But for those suffering...
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/ 9 months agoSolstices brought Mayan communities together, using monuments shaped by science and religion – and kingly ambitions, too
Structures aligned with solar events served various purposes: science, farming, religion and even politics.
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/ 9 months agoSaying a final goodbye to Willie Mays, baseball’s ‘Say hey’ kid
From the racism and poverty of the Jim Crow South, Willie Mays rose to the height of fame and respect as...
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/ 9 months agoHow Biden’s executive order to protect immigrant spouses of citizens from deportation will benefit their families and communities
Biden’s executive action will shield approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of US citizens, as well as 50,000 children, from deportation and give...
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/ 9 months agoHow Indigenous peoples are reclaiming their celebrations of the summer solstice − and using them to resist
A historian of astronomy writes about the role of astronomical events in Indigenous cultures − and also the exploitation of their...
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/ 9 months agoEPA has lowered the screening level for lead in soil – here’s what that could mean for households across the US
The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.
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/ 9 months agoJoining NATO binds countries to defend each other – but this commitment is not set in stone
NATO’s treaty has loopholes that give member countries, including the US, power over whether or not they want to intervene in...
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/ 9 months agoUS laws created during slavery are still on the books. A legal scholar wants to at least acknowledge that history in legal citations
Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases...
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/ 9 months agoDigital public archaeology: Excavating data from digs done decades ago and connecting with today’s communities
Archaeologists preserve records of their excavations, but many are never analyzed. Digital archaeology is making these records more accessible and analyzing...
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/ 9 months agoKeeping astronauts healthy in space isn’t easy − new training programs will prepare students to perform medicine while thousands of miles away from Earth
Future space missions will fly farther and longer than ever before – which means crew members may need more involved medical...
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/ 9 months agoPhilly has highest STI rates in the country – improving sex ed in schools and access to at-home testing could lower rates
Syphilis cases have increased 30% among 15- to 24-year-olds in Philadelphia since 2019, while cases of gonorrhea are up 18%. Chlamydia...
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/ 9 months agoSouthern Baptists may have rejected a constitutional amendment opposing female pastors, but that does not mean they are changing their views on women’s leadership in church
A scholar who studies Southern Baptists explains why the denomination’s ultraconservative beliefs about women remain the same.
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/ 9 months agoElder fraud has reached epidemic proportions – a geriatrician explains what older Americans need to know
Unfortunately, there’s no cure for scammers – but you can build immunity against them.
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/ 9 months agoIs Earth really getting too hot for people to survive? A scientist explains extreme heat and the role of climate change
The answer depends in part on where you live. If it’s extremely hot and humid, the health risks are much higher.
