The horrific collapse of a factory in Bangladesh that killed hundreds sent American scrambling for ways to ensure this doesn’t happen again. A professor explains why boycotts are not the answer.
Visitors mourn at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia.
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On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey’s insistence that the genocide never happened.
Investment gaps may be key to understanding why poorer children perform so much worse throughout life.
How do we think about something we can’t see and don’t experience in our everyday lives, but seems to be pushing our universe apart ever faster?
NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team
Einstein’s theory of gravity says dark energy must be out there, accelerating the expansion of our universe. But what is it and how can we try to figure out more about it?
A memorial created at the site of the death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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The man who videotaped the shooting of Walter Scott is demanding compensation from media outlets replaying it. Here’s why this is a reasonable request.
Trying to stop an incinerator project in Baltimore.
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The EPA and other federal agencies have yet to address environmental justice – despite a long history of poor and minority communities suffering environmental ills disproportionately.
Will negotiators play a game of chicken or be able to clink champagne glasses over a nice chicken dinner?
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched 25 years ago in 1990. But O'Dell started on the project in 1972, garnering support for the world’s first telescope free of Earth’s atmosphere’s blurring effects.
Not the aisle for happiness.
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A lifestyle based on aggressive consumption stresses the Earth’s resources and, beyond a certain point of comfort, does not actually foster human fulfillment or happiness.
Invisible under normal light but fluorescent under UV light, this ink can print out unique signatures that use ‘molecular encryption’ to authenticate anything they tag.
The Dalai Lama has been coy about his successor.
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Ayn Rand may be long gone but her theories about selfishness live on in today’s libertarian circles and influence the political philosophies of presidential contender Rand Paul and others.
It’s not the stop for a traffic violation that riles the community; it’s the perception of unfairness or bias that sours police/citizen interactions.
Stigma about HIV can be deadly. In this photo Aaron Laxton of St. Louis, Missouri, takes part in a demonstration in front of the White House in 2012.
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As the debate over standardized tests continues, a scholar questions the introduction of a new college readiness test, PARCC and gives reasons why it will be no different.
African nations can look to Nigeria and Tanzania for recent examples of smart policies that boost the middle class.
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The history of “cures” for homosexuality reveals how discredited conversion therapies for gay and transgender children can irreparably harm young minds.