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Europe’s biggest achievements, such as open borders and human rights, are at risk as government responses to the refugee crisis fall short.
Popular movies are spreading misinformation about the reality of human trafficking. That’s a problem because only good information can help us end the practice.
The Aliso Canyon methane leak in California is bad, but it’s only a small portion of the methane leaked from the natural gas industry’s sprawling pipeline and storage infrastructure.
Global stocks have been turbulent all year thanks to jitters about China. But what’s really going on here?
Even though mental illness is consistently associated with criminal behavior, these conditions are largely undertreated in our prison system.
Could Picasso’s sculptures become the most sought-after pieces of the artist’s oeuvre?
Adding a single wheat gene helps the American chestnut withstand a fungal pathogen that nearly wiped these hardwood trees out of the eastern forests they once dominated.
Donald Trump is wrong when he says: “The police are the most mistreated people in this country.” In fact, American police officers killed more people in 2015 than ever before.
Malware has brought down the power grid in the Ukraine. What were attackers after and could it happen elsewhere?
On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, five educators reflect on recent campus protests and describe concrete actions universities can take to bring opportunity to all.
The dark, disturbing imagery of Bowie’s final album recalls how the artist inspired the goth movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
Providing citizens with a basic income has shown signs of success in lifting people out of poverty, but more importantly the idea is transforming the way we think about inequality.
The laws of physics dictate that to pick out ever fainter objects from space and see them more sharply, we’re going to need a bigger telescope. And that means we need massive mirrors.
Meta-analyses that combine many different studies are the gold standard for medical evidence. But they are only as good research they examine.
Our panel of scholars listened to the sixth GOP debate with a critical ear and picked one quote to analyze.
With the presidential debates being derided as evidence we live in a “post-fact” political world, why aren’t the moderators “truth vigilantes”?
The wind and solar industries scored a huge win by getting extended tax credits, but research shows this isn’t the best policy for lowering emissions through renewable energy.
Slated to be demolished this year, a crumbling brick building on Ole Miss’ campus once operated as a power plant where novelist William Faulkner shoveled coal – and feverishly wrote.
The math behind all the probabilities being discussed for tonight’s Powerball drawing assumes each number is equally likely to be chosen. Is that what really happens?
A case before the Supreme Court could deal a major blow to unions, highlighting the need for leaders of business and labor to negotiate a new New Deal.
Five million people work in the U.S. transportation sector. It’s unclear where they’ll end up as driverless technology takes off.
Being too clean isn’t what’s making us sick. It’s the loss of biodiversity in the bacteria and organisms that live in our bodies and work with the immune system.
The president’s speech on Tuesday was nostalgic, forward-looking – and pretty disappointing.
Perhaps the 5'10" candidate felt like he needed a ‘lift.’