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Rehydrating the Florida Everglades is the largest ecological restoration project in the world. Ecologist Peter Frederick explains why this massive effort is worth its multi-billion-dollar cost.
Many students are in the process of deciding whether to take a gap year – a year between high school and starting college. What does evidence tell us about taking a gap year?
Smart home technologies have some major security weaknesses that better design and programming could solve.
What are we really talking about when we criticize women who breastfeed in public?
What happens when the face is no longer the primary means of expression?
If a person is alone in the forest when a tree falls, but she doesn’t notice it because she is texting, does it still count as solitude?
The Iranian president will finally get a parliament that backs his reforms. But much still stands in his way.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have called for making colleges and universities debt-free or tuition-free. Disadvantaged students need more than free college to achieve success.
Restoring forest landscapes through active thinning and letting fires burn in order to minimize fire damage has proved harder and less effective than advocates believed, says historian of fire.
It wasn’t even until the late 19th century that this was codified into law.
Brazil has a powerful and dominant national identity, which could be a casualty of the current political crisis. The author of an upcoming book on the subject considers the harm that’s been done.
Who’s more likely to help you find a job, your close friends or the casual acquaintance you see at the gym? An examination of Facebook friends offers some clues.
Analyzing electronic data from many doctors’ experiences with many patients, we can move ever closer to answering the age-old question: what is truly best for each patient?
Just about anyone can get a tiny, cheap satellite into orbit these days. As we consider how to deploy them responsibly, inspiration comes from an amateur community of enthusiasts.
What will a Trump presidency mean for America’s 6,000 colleges and universities, as well as its over 20 million postsecondary students?
Growing enough food to feed 9 billion people by 2050 will require huge amounts of energy and water. Using nanoparticles to boost plant growth and yield could save resources and reduce water pollution.
When biographer Gretchen Gerzina came across an old British newspaper article calling Sarah E. Farro “the first negro novelist,” she wondered: who was Farro, and why had she been lost to history?
Some are calling on the president to issue an apology when he visits Hiroshima. But an East Asia expert says his visit will focus on remembrance, and explains why that is enough.
Two prominent MIT physicists ask whether for nuclear weapons, less is more
When seeing or hearing something poignant, many get the chills. But about one-third of the population doesn’t feel this sensation.
A recent closed meeting about building synthetic genomes raised suspicions about just what scientists were planning, away from the public eye.
Weight lost is often weight re-gained. Learning how to manage stress and find comfort are overlooked tools.
While iron-fortified rice cereal is often the first solid food babies eat, it’s not a necessity.
College students who take stimulants such as Adderall to get an academic edge might be setting themselves up unknowingly to a vicious cycle of substance abuse and addiction.