President Lyndon Johnson’s commencement address at Howard University in 1965 offered a compelling argument on the need for affirmative action. His policies have been challenged ever since.
Behavior-based interventions could boost conservation efforts, but raise their own set of tricky ethical issues.
Public data about individual donors’ political contributions supports the perception that American academia leans left.
There are many uses for digital systems that are not centrally controlled and that allow large numbers of people to participate securely, even if they don’t all know and trust each other.
People with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome 21. Understanding the effects of those triplicated genes could help improve the health of those with Down syndrome and other medical conditions.
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
Art can help anchor places even as they are reshaped.
Humans rely on the ocean for food, jobs and other resources, but these systems are being stressed to the brink.
Schools are blocking access to ChatGPT on their computers to try to prevent students from cheating. Two experts on academic cheating offer a very different strategy.
Though accessory dwelling units have been around for centuries, a recent survey found that 71% of Americans were unfamiliar with the concept.
Greater representation in rap from LGBTQ artists comes as mainstream artists atone for past lyrics.
From fluffy crabs that wear sea sponge hats to worms that glow in the dark, scientists are constantly finding amazing new life forms in the ocean.
Millions of people worldwide are exposed via soil and water to arsenic, whether naturally occurring or related to pollution. Chronic exposure is linked to the formation of cancer stem cells.
The quality of public debate over free speech in higher education matters. And the debate right now gets the facts all wrong.
Transgender people are more than four times as likely to be the victim of a crime as cisgender people.
Congress passed and the president signed the deal just days before the US was expected to default on its debt.
Andrew Brimmer, the first African American on the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, helped develop the blueprint for the Central Bank of Sudan.
Getting an extra star or two from a prominent ratings group can make a bigger difference than a social media campaign or a slew of thank-you calls.
How you tell the story of a momentous event can help you make sense of what happened. Research finds new moms’ and dads’ narratives around childbirth held clues about their transition to parenthood.
Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to millions of people individually – but it could be a nightmare for democracy.
