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People have been flying airplanes for well over a century. Engineers know how to balance all the forces at play, but still aren’t exactly sure how some of the physics of flight actually works.
Learning how to produce polished prose can greatly enhance your value on the job.
The rate of injury for single-sport adolescents is far higher than for other kids who play a variety of sports.
Since nutrition standards were strengthened in 2010, eating at school provides many students with healthier food than is available cheaply elsewhere. Plus, reducing stigma increases the number of kids getting fed.
Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
Though a Georgia judge strongly criticized the decision-making of Fani Willis, he did not kick her off the case against Donald Trump and his efforts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.
In China, ‘private’ businesses aren’t entirely private and the ultimate boss is the CCP, not the CEO.
James and Jennifer Crumbley purchased a handgun for their son as a Christmas present. Ethan Crumbley used that gun to kill 4 of his high school classmates.
When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
A scholar of history of education and American politics explains what is behind his course on conspiracy theories and how students learn to debunk fake ideas.
Researchers designed an ultrathin pacemaker that can be implanted via minimally invasive techniques, potentially improving recovery time and reducing the risk of complications.
False ideas about the extinction of the white race, spread around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gave rise to xenophobic and anti-immigration conspiracy theories.
The Israel-Hamas war has fueled tensions around military exemptions, but the issue has long roiled Israeli politics.
The answer lies in the tax code.
9 Black women who were working on or recently earned their PhDs told a researcher they felt isolated and shut out.
An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how it’s changed.
Owners of midsize nursing home chains drain billions from facilities, hiding behind opaque accounting practices and harming the elderly as government, which has the power to stop it, falls short.
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes weighs in.
Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election results. But the work of others, from lawmakers to judges to regular citizens, stopped him. There are cautionary lessons in that for the 2024 election.
An evolutionary biologist is studying what these resilient urban pests can teach us about adaptation and evolution.
Identifying proteins that are only present in bodily fluids when a patient has breast cancer could provide a way to screen healthy people for the disease.
As you get older, you’re at higher risk of severe infection and your immunity declines faster after vaccination.
Sometimes, good news for investors is bad for consumers.