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A new study finds that investors punish companies for behaving badly over three times as much if they have a record of saying they’re virtuous.
Only 218 programs offer credit-bearing college programs in prison. That’s about to change.
Many of the amino acids that make up proteins are encoded by genetic material in more than one way. An information theorist explains how principles of nature may account for this variance.
The bad news: Extreme heat is probably going to stick around for a couple of more years.
Plea deals are common in American criminal courts. But in the federal government’s tax case against Hunter Biden, the judge refused to sign off on a deal.
Two Supreme Court rulings on the use of race appear at odds with each other. Blame Chief Justice Roberts’s ambivalence on race, a constitutional law scholar writes.
Practitioners of Pagan religions no longer need to go into a forest to find an object for their altars. Commercialization means that sacred objects are available online.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is using a long-standing Senate practice to block military promotions.
The 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report proposed restrictions on the use of technology in the classroom.
Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.
US cities are starting to reform laws that required developers to provide minimum amounts of parking. But there’s more they can do to loosen the auto’s grip on downtowns.
Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited form of intellectual disability. Using short bits of DNA to fix improperly transcribed genes may one day be a potential treatment option.
The way particles interacted while the universe was forming seconds after the Big Bang could explain why the universe exists the way it does – a physicist explains matter-antimatter asymmetry.
The strike would have been the first for the parcel delivery giant since 1997.
Health and climate change researchers explain the risks and why older adults, even those in northern states, need to pay attention.
As the evidence for aromatherapy trickles in, be wary of marketing ploys and possible risks posed by some of these products.
Freshwater megafish numbers have fallen by 94%, according to one study.
An engineer who managed dams for years explains the tradeoffs operators make as they decide when to release water and how much to stay safe.
NATO gets the headlines, but the Five Eyes alliance is another close connection between key Western powers, and it may expand.
Trump appointed Cannon to the bench, but that alone is not a good enough reason for her to recuse herself from the case.
A project to upgrade a high school playing field led to a book on how to inspire more young people to pursue careers as urban planners.
Laughter is so fundamental that animals like chimps, rats and dogs share the ability with humans. But in people it serves more serious social functions than just letting others know you’re having fun.
Horses and humans share biological similarities that lead them to suffer from similar endocrine and orthopedic diseases. A number of treatments that work for one species often work for the other.
A religion scholar argues that the communal nature of Islamic pilgrimage helps worshippers go through a physically demanding schedule and creates camaraderie that continues beyond the pilgrimage.